30 Minutes till Parade Time...

I stopped to pick up some gas, and grabbed a can of disolving tire cleaning foam. Got back home at 10:15 AM.
First ran the kids into town to wait for me at the fire hall where they were organizing the parade lineup, and then ran back home 1/4 mile to grab my 2N.

I basically used some shop towels to wipe off the worst of the grease/dirt coating on the tractor, and then the tire foam to shine up the tires some.

20 minutes later and I was good to go.

Had to laugh cause my quick cleanup, made My 2N look miles better than someone's 8 N that looked like it just rolled into the dirt pile before he hitched it on the wagon to pull for a float.

The N ran flawlessly for the parade, and I got some nice compliments. It was nice to be able to use the Sherman Step Up in 1st gear when I started to lag a bit behind the float in front of me.

Next year I may have to plan a bit more in advance and actually wash the whole tractor, rather than just clean the tires, but hey, it's a working tractor, not a show piece like the fully restored John Deere D that was in front of me. That tractor was a thing of beauty, looks like a fresh paint job and a full restore.

Now before you ask, I was so busy getting the kids to the parade, cause the wife was outer town, and such, that I didn't get a chance to take any pictures, but I saw the barn pics on a different post, so I'll run the N over by the barn and shoot a couple tonite and post them.

My barn is a unique one, it's first job in life was as a Canadian Pacific Railroad Station, for the last 30 years or more it's been in retirement acting as a barn. How many of you guys have hardwood flooring in your hay loft's ? Mine looks like maple :)

But we seeem to have run into one of our rare doses of rain today, with more predicted for the rest of the week, so I think I'll pop the generator off and take it into the garage to work on it while it's too wet to mow or work out in the yard on the landscaping.