it's done!
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Topic: it's done!
Posted By: EClark
Subject: it's done!
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:09pm
after a lot of blood sweat and tears,and a few beers its 's done !!!!! Eric
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Posted By: Wes (VA)
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:10pm
| Looks good!! |
Posted By: Rfdeere
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:12pm
  Nice !! !! Great Job !!------------- Randy Freshour,Member Indiana AC Partners, http://www.rumelyallis.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.rumelyallis.com |
Posted By: WC7610
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:12pm
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Wow, another beautiful D series. Very nice-Congratulations on a good job.
Can you share what you used for paint? ------------- Thanks Most Bad Government has grown out of Too Much Government- Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:16pm
| awesome. Nicely done and correct orange as well. I like !!! |
Posted By: Lynn Marshall
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:22pm
| exxxxxcelant |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:23pm
| Wow!! Wish mine looked that good!! |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:24pm
| When can I pick it up..... : ) nice job |
Posted By: omahagreg
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:24pm
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Purdy! ------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |
Posted By: allischalmerguy
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:30pm
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Way to Go! she looks beautiful and you will sure enjoy it now! ------------- It is great being a disciple of Jesus! 1950 WD, 1957 D17...retired in Iowa, |
Posted By: EClark
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:37pm
guess I should have put this picture first, Eric
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Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:41pm
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Sure, you show the side that you didn't drop in the gravel, kick around trying to pick it up in your drunken celebration state after all those beers, and painted over in the dark with a rattlecan from walmart!
Really guys, this tractor looks waaaay better than a picture can show. He did one heckova bang up job on it!!! Eric is one of those that is a stickler for right!!, and I am allowed to call friend!!!! And it is definitely as close to PO#1 as he could find! It looks a little odd when shown with all the rest painted with "corporate orange", but it matches some old stock parts that I have painted with 1950's paint! joe
p.s. seein' is believin' ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:44pm
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Eric, that dirt looks familiar. ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: EClark
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:49pm
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hope so, oh that's right you were at work that day your field got plowed. that's about the only perk of being the boss, I can sneak away and go plow |
Posted By: dustinmo
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:53pm
| really looks slick, nice job, Dusitn |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 9:58pm
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That tractor also pulls 55 hp on a tuff dyno. My 49 WD only made it to 30 something hp. So, it not only looks good------ ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 5:32am
| nice machine, awsome job. blood, swet and tears, isn't that a 70's group? |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 6:03am
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Eric, you've got the best of both worlds of your D17 tractor - brand new condition & work clothes historical condition. Although your restoration has probably granted it a better than factory new condition, you now understand the grace it must have granted the original owner to see it unloaded from the dealership's truck on delivery day to the farm. It is in such fantastic appearance & shape. I love the D-17 oval sticker on the sides of the sheet metal! Your before picture reveals the test of time for the ol' girl. Faded paint, oil leaks, maybe worn brakes, shiny handled Power Director stick from day-in/day-out use, supported muffler, service stickers, dings & dents and the list goes on. Decades later and it's still doing a beautiful job of plowing. Great Job!!
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Posted By: LRWSPWI
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 6:16am
| Better than a nice tractor!! |
Posted By: Larry in Ill
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 6:30am
| Very nice D17! |
Posted By: David Maddux
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 7:27am
| Thanks for having the patience to do it right. Great job. Dave. |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 8:04am
| Wow -- that's one sharp looking tractor -- good job! |
Posted By: Charlie175
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 8:47am
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You upped the bar on that one! ------------- Charlie '48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD |
Posted By: BobDinNC
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 9:43am
| That sure looks great. Very nicely done. |
Posted By: Dutchboy Johan
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2012 at 5:01pm
Wow. what an awesome D17. It looks like better then new.  ------------- ---> Better by Design <--- Johan Straver, Almkerk/ Netherlands Allis-Chalmers 190XT Ser.III #26829XTD |