Texas WD retrieval trip pictures

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   I know I've been lax in posting pics from my trip to Texas back in May to get my wife's grandfather's tractor and implements, so here we go!

My beautiful truck fueling up in Dumas, TX (IIRC). Rental 18' flatbed with 2' dove, tandem 6k axles.

Next day on the way to the property:

At the property:

I spent a couple hours futzing with the tractor to see if it would fire up, but no such luck. Wife is in the truck, I was guiding the tractor, and we got it perfectly located first try.

The row where the implements have been resting for god knows how long:

I used the truck to pull the implements around front so we could load them on the trailer, so some of this is engine heat, but it was toasty in the Texas sun!

We were working hard loading implements so didn't take many pics, but here's the disc harrow before I took it apart (too heavy/bulky to load intact):

Back at the inlaws' where we were staying; looks like the damn Clampetts have come to town! Keep in mind that my 5'3" wife and I loaded this whole thing by ourselves by hand! 

This jerk in an Allis Chalmers tractor tailgated me all the way back to Colorado:

Fully loaded, after fueling in Springfield, Colorado, around 2:30pm, about 75 degrees out. Earlier in Dumas TX, we grossed 17,840 lbs, and my poor stock 12 valve was not very happy, especially going into the headwind that we had all the way home.

I mention the above temperature because we came into this about twenty miles from home:

Easily 25 degrees before wind chill, ice caked on the roads, the whole nine yards. My dirt road was so muddy and slushy that I had to unhitch and leave the trailer in town for a day before I could get it home. 

Ended up unloading the trailer in the snow and frigid winds, by hand, because I had to get the trailer back to the rental place. Definitely an adventure though, had a great time with the wife and pups, ate some great BBQ in Amarillo down and back, got to visit with the family, and just had a good time getting this old orange home. 

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