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Laura, a nickels worth of free advice here on your 9N. Here's the place you want to go for all parts needed for your baby.
http://www.wengers.com/
Yes, we have one of these old work horses too! Ours is a 1950 8N. If not for that tractor, we would never have been able to build this house!
Gotta keep the old equipment going ya know! They've earned the right to be here and be taken good care of far more than those cheaply built, shoddily designed new Chinese import P.O.S.'s!
Anyway, that's where you want to look for any and all parts your DH might need for your 9N
Here's a shot of our girl Francis! I simply love this old tractor! When they get this old, they kind of take on a life of their own, if you ask me!
See what I mean? Absolutely invaluable to us while building the house. There wasn't a single phase of the log erection part of the project in which she wasn't involved heavily!
Sadly, Denny got her stuck in two gears simultaneously last summer and she's been sitting in that location ever since. We just have not had the time to fix her....YET! But we most assuredly will, just as soon as we complete the construction of the house. We're going to have too! We need her desperately for all of the landscaping that follows the completion of the house!
Kathy, on the sand issue and the price thereof. Call the folks you got your sand from last year and ask them if they have "Tailing's". This is usually a bit more course than sand, but is still great from a drainage standpoint, and your chickens will love it as a source of grit. I plan on getting in a 14 yard load in as soon as the weight restrictions on Pine Springs Road are lifted....sometime in mid April. We have a LOT of area that needs to be addressed on the drainage issue as well.
But the point is, "tailing's" work just as well as washed sand, at a little better than half of the price. Ask your sand and gravel place if they have it! It's the best stuff when you're working with a restrictive budget!
GeeGee is still at it with that darn egg of hers. I snapped a couple of really cute shots of her and Gooby tonight after I got done with cleaning up today's broody messes. Y'all think it's bad when you smell a broody poop in the coop? Try having it in the confined space of your pump house/computer room!
Guaranteed to make you want to leave in a hurry! Anyhow, I still need to upload them to the computer and then to Photobucket, but I promise, as soon as I'm finished with that, I'll post a couple of them here. I just love it when Gooby plays Queen of the Mountain on her mother's back!
