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There the porcupine is! In front of that fork lift up against the front of the car on the left side. It looks like one of those detachable brushes that are still used today to hook up to the front of skid steers or walk behind earth movers. Thanks BenJu and Motts.

It's 2017, "Sunnycroft" still a memory, some of the specifics are alittle more difficult to remember. But Mike DeMello, Annette Schneider, Mike her Father, his Girlfriend Barbara, a salesperson for John Myers of Norwich, Morty my Father, and his girlfriend, a former Playboy Bunny Lynn, Sylvia, Mike's Elegant Mom, and the Ranch itself I will never ever forget. Artie Karp, Big Rod, Maybe it's the "Heat Of Summer" down here, on the #1 beach in the USA, it's 102 today. GOD Bless us all & let us never ever forget Sunnycroft Ranch.

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John Galt, there is a new post in the first picture with a link to a page where the guy who bought this engine has pictures posted of the restoration he is doing. You are correct they removed the stack to get it out.

Looks like this tractor has found a new owner in 2015 and is going to be restored:
https://www.smokstak.c...wthread.php?t=155064

Thats a rotary brush mounted to the front of the 'white tractor' a few pictures back.
You can see a portion of the sweeper body, angle drive gearbox, shaft & chainsproket what turns the brush and PTO shaft going back to the tractor gearbox.

I think it's tucked in the back behind the truck frame, I missed it too, good eye! http://opacity.us/image11219_skeleton.htm

What a shame these marvelous pieces of machinery just sitting there and rusting....what a waste. Thank you for the great photos.

What a great find, the tractor is really a remarkable machine for the time.

Does anyone have information or contacts for the Salesians of St John Bosco in Cedar Lake Indiana? Looking for information from 1963-1966. Thanks.

Wow, I loved those old deuce and a quarter's. That would be an Electra 225 to you kiddies. It may be a little later, I am thinking 1975.

It is so funny to me how cars again have vents on the front fenders like the old Buicks. They were called Vent A Ports and designed by Harley Earl for the 1947 Buick. The entry level cars had 3 holes and the top shelf ones had 4 holes. The 225 was a 4 holer.

Does anyone else here remember when tractor seats were a decorating fad back in the 70's? Somehow that memory came bubbling up.

There appear to be nuts on the flange where the stack meets the boiler. It may be easily removable. Or it was before the rust bugs started gnawing on it.

I am guessing this was coal fired based on the smoke stack. Wood burners had a bell shape at the top to help contain sparks. Wood stacks were also proportionally taller. The tender should be right behind the boiler. It was probably not huge, maybe enough for a cubic yard or meter of coal. You would not be traveling long distances from your fuel and water supplies.

Flushed, you are correct. That was used to power all sorts of ancillary equipment. You are correct too, Sandy. Farming used to be a very dangerous business. Loving this new gallery