There are a dozen different Oliver tractors, several Case tractors, including a D orchard tractor with all the sheet metal guards, a 1918 10-18 and a 1927 18-32. M-H machines include a GP, a Challenger and several later versions. IH is represented by styled tractors from a Cub through several W models to an M. There is the original John Deere M, plus two rows of green and yellow from a Waterloo Boy to the 30 series. This was the beginning, and through the years Jones collected and restored nearly two hundred tractors. TractorsĪlong the way, Keith bought his uncle’s John Deere M and restored it. Keith Jones and his brother, Kolen, started Richmond, Virginia-based Abilene Motor Express in 1986 and now run nearly 400 over-the-road trucks. Well, I finally got there early in July, and it is impressive. Several years ago, Mel Rhiel told me about visiting the Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum just north of Petersburg, Virginia, and what a great place it was. Seems those cussed old monkey wrenches often slipped on a tight nut and raised a sharp little sliver of metal, or a burr, on the nut’s edge.Ĭlyde said that was the reason the old man called them that and that he had always protected his fingers from those sharp burrs with gloves. Clyde Wolfgang stopped by the other day and said that his granddad called them burrs, and once told Clyde why. A while back, I wrote of the mystery of why some old-timers referred to nuts as burrs.
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