Thanks for all of the Fathers Day good wishes. I bought my Massey Ferguson 135 from a friend. He brought it home to MD to sell. We've been friends for a while and I knew he had a farm in WV. Turns out the 135 was bought new in 66 and lived on his family farm, one road over from my farm. So, he took it home to WV for me. I had the 8' grader blade on it and ran down my driveway and leveled all of the washed out spots in two passes. Didn't get pics of my place, I was in a hurry to get over to his place, I'd never seen it. He has 366 acres. He had two sheds and as we drove past one I saw a deer bedded down in the corner of the shed. He laughed and said more lived in the other shed because he kept hay in it for them. He's been cleaning up around the farm and we brought an old Gravely walk behind home. He was telling me his uncle had a saw mill on the property. We were in another shed and I saw a wooden pulley sticking out from under a pile of junk. It looked like the kind of pulley that big leather drive belts ran on. I asked if it was on some kind of transmission. He said yeah. So, I started climbing over stuff to get a look. The trans was setting in an old truck frame, so I dug more, and saw a firewall, uncovered more, and there was a model T engine. I might try and buy it from him and restore it as a drive unit, just like it is. Another friend has 4 model T's and he might give more for the engine than I will. His bush hog gear box blew up so we pulled it to see if we can get a new one. He has two riding mowers for the yard proper so we mowed the lawn. His Aunt, who actually owns the property was coming up later in the week to spend some time on the old home place. I had a really nice day, got my drive graded, saw Steve's farm and got his lawn mowed. Here's the couple pics I got of his place, Joe.
House and big barn:
Old log corn cribs inside big barn. Big barn was built around the cribs much later:
The shed to the right has the T engine in it:
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