'58 Chevy Viking 2 ton truck, flatbed. Motor frozen but body near perfect, sold for $850. Put an engine in it, it will make a dandy truck, paint it and use it to haul your tractor to the shows....

Looking at an International 2 ton flatbed, 6 cylinder flat head motor. Interior shot, but complete. Still had the hubcaps...

a 5-ton loader scraper that you would pull with a (very large) tractor or Caterpillar. They had a D-4, and a D-7 for parts there. Interesting contraption, lots of cables and pulleys and such. Had a "pusher" bumper in the rear for pushing with a Cat, when the extra "oomph" was needed...

Looking at a '64 Chevy 283 V-8, 4 door. Back window was out, so interior all rotted. Not much rust tho.  At the Berg Auction in Talmage...

some of the farm equipment at the Berg auction...

Mary Ann braving the weather...snowman suit...fortunately it didnt snow much more that day...

old Model T truck chassis and cabs, pretty rough shape...

another Model T, or what's left of it, and an International Cab/chassis in the backround, no rear axle. It was a 1 1/2 ton. Pretty rough.

cab was really straight, amazing considering the rest of it...

glass was good, grille mostly there, headlight rings there.

Another International, Cab/chassis, this one was more complete but in rougher condition. Several antique tractors, a 1929 McCormick-Deering, and a 1931 John Deere. The Deere went for 2400, the McCormick went for 850. Both had the motors frozen, but were pretty much complete.

A 60 or 61 Studebaker pickup cab/wrecker. In Wymore. Weird.

Serial number cast on the front of the water cooling chamber - 232740

cleaned over 5 gallons of dirt out of the crankcase area...

obviously something went here... I am thinking a magneto of some sort...

a view of what I believe to be the carburetor, and the "igniter"..

a close up of the igniter(?)....

view of the front of the cylinder head, top of the carburetor...

area of the head which has been welded at some point. Exhaust port at bottom of head....

belt pulley on the side...

The oiler tube is rusted out, the cooling chamber was also full of dirt. It will take a while to get it all cleaned out.

view from the other side, where the magneto is removed. Piston is thorougly frozen, once I get the rod and main bearing caps loosened up, I will tilt the engine and begin working on unfreezing the piston... more to come later.... 

Went to an Auction today, distant relatives. Berg sisters, well know around the Talmage area. Owned several farms, farmed right up to their 70's, working cattle, planting and harvesting, etc. There were three kids, never married. Son lived on one of the other farms, helped into his early 70's and died (about 15 years ago) One sister fell off the combine about two years ago, broke a hip, and has been in the nursing home ever since. Other sister uses a walker, at 88 decided to quit farming. Still lives at home on her own on the farm, but sold all the farm equipment. Quite an assortment of stuff, several old Model T chassis in poor condition, several International 1 1/2 and 2 ton trucks in poor condition, a 59 GMC Short nose with a frozen motor, otherwise pretty sharp. About 10 old tractors, some really old, 1929 McCormick Deering, 1929 John Deere, several John Deere B's and A's, all with stuck motors. Seems they would use them til they broke and couldn't be easily fixed, then parked them and bought new. Wasn't much small stuff, a few old tools and such, nothing spectacular. About a dozen saddles, a whole trailer load of bridles and harnesses, all in pretty rough shape. They had two Caterpillars, a D-4 in good shape, and a D-7 for parts. Also a big pull behind scraper, 5 ton. Lots of farm machinery, equipment, and such. From late 1800's to late 1900's. 1979 Chevy Impala 4 door with a banged in tailight only brought $180. 85,000 miles. Couldn't believe that. And the pickup was a 1970 GMC 3/4 ton, 4 speed 350 V-8, body was banged up, but only brought $250. I wound up buying a  Fairbanks Morse 6 HP stationary engine. I have always seen them restored at the State Fair and and Antique tractor shows and such, never thought I would be able to own one. Even unrestored they go for over $1000. This one is pretty complete, and I got it for $275. There were two sets of steel wheels nearby, I got those for less than $40. Maureen, Mary Ann, and Aunt Babe were there, so we watched the rest of the auction, then went to Tecumseh for lunch. Mary Ann took Aunt Babe home, I took Maureen home, then jumped in the pickup and heade back down to load. There was supposed to be people there to help load, but of course I got there and everyone was gone. So I loaded the wheels myself, and headed home, then jumped in the Jeep and hooked up the trailer, grabbed a come-along, and some chains and load tighteners, and headed back down. Got there just as it got dark, of course, and backed the trailer up to it, tilted the bed, and used the chains and the come along, winched it on the trailer, then secured it with the chains and tighteners. Headed back, only took 45 minutes back. Backed it into the Garage, and slid it off the trailer, of course with lots of help. Managed to slide it over next to the Volvo, out of the way. I figure it will only appreciate in value. I will clean it up, and soak everything in penetrating fluid, see if I can get it loosened up. It would be fun to get it to run and restore it, we will see what happens. First thing is to get some books on it and learn more about it.  I want to build a wooden platform/truck with those wheels for it. The thing weighs about 1000 lbs, so it is not something you just throw into your truck.  But it is pretty cool.

All you can see is Fuzz's tail....

Fuzz checking things out...

Smoky helping....

Smoky and Fuzz checking it out...

Found some pretty cool old trucks (or parts thereof) in Garland today... thankfully I had my camera and the presence of mind to use it...

really old Kenworth, in the 50's I think, actually in pretty good shape. Was obviously a tractor for a tanker for a rural Fire Dept. somewhere....

 not too sure what it was, 6 cyl. diesel. I think it was a White.

This one was an International, mid 40's I think. Not too much left...

 a pair of cabs, not sure what they are yet, will do some research and learn more. Actually in pretty good condition, minus the doors....

 believe this to be a late 30's or early 40's Seagrave, but again I have to do some searching...look at the length of the hood...probably a massive flat head six...all kinds of gauges and dials and controls just behind the front fender and in front of the door....

very little rust, actually very complete, even has sections of hose still on board. You just don't see them like this anymore.

Woke up this morning to a nice little hail storm...

it was worse the farther into Lincoln I got. Almost an inch deep at Walwart, and that was half an hour after it quit....nice start to the spring storm season.....supposed to get snow tonight....

Spring is here, the geese decided to stop off at the neighbor's pond, what a racket!...

Well, it was a good ceremony....

the boys with the Four Winds Team....

Mitch and Stephen in their roles....

they recieved their Eagle certificates....

and their Flags from Glen at the Elks Lodge....

Allen gave his Mentor's pin to Jim, and Kyle had one for Scott, who wasn't there....

and at the end they asked Maureen to stand with them, to honor her for her leadership, and her Silver Award in Venture, the highest level you can attain. She was pleasently surprised and honored to stand with them. So it was a good weekend, despite Donna being a pain in the planning. There were a lot of people in attendance, it was good to see Martha from Omaha amongst them. Several of Allen's teachers were there, including his wrestling coach, who himself is an Eagle Scout. The "Killer Northern Pike" award went over well, everyone had a good laugh about it...Tim did a nice job with his role in that. Connie got a little long winded in her part, but that's OK, just part of the fun with one of these ceremonies, you never know quite how they are going to turn out. It was nice to see so many red coats there from the Elks Lodge, they do support the boys, and are appreciative of the time and volunteer efforts they have put in. Boys have had a lot of fun cooking popcorn, helping with burger night, pouring pops for Citizenship classes, etc.

Well, best quit for now, do something productive, like work on taxes....bleh....

Well, the Eagle ceremony weekend is finally here....and I got the "Killer Northern Pike" Award completed for the boys to give to their Scoutmaster...turned out pretty good.....

This is how it looks on the wall...

and from the other side.....the red eyes make it look mean....not to mention the rows of teeth.....

pretty amazing condition for a mount done in 1967....

got most of the other things done, now to scan in some photos and work on a power point....laters......