Well, I really thought I would be retiring the Ford tractor, but guessed wrong. My stars don't seem to be lining up, so I spent the day preparing the faithful Ford 4000 for another season. With old equipment it's like having to invent and build a machine before you actually do anything. I spent a good part of the day patching holes in the mower deck; and then the tractor, you know: replacing the battery, gas, fluid checks, hydraulic leaks, dissemble the distributor and clean it until it sparks, take off a sway bar because it was too bent to connect. Yep, another year and the list goes on, but the grass does get mowed. You guys with equipment from this millennium probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Just think of it as down time where the warranty department and owner are the same.
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