jdemaris

Anybody heard from him? He was in upstate New York, was off the electrical grid, pretty knowledgable regarding mechanical stuff and posted fairly often. Then sold out and moved to Michigan upper peninsula, and hasn't been heard from since, as far as I know. He was a little opinionated and crossed swords with B&D occasionally, which was always entertaining.

I was wondering about his whereabouts as well a few weeks back. I thought he was moving to the northern lower though?

Ross

He has some equipment for sale in the classified ads. I met him at an auction on Percy Holmes road but I doubt he remembers. The HG I have now came from that sale. My neighbors spreader still has the Laneway sticker! Greg

He's got a long post down on the garden tractor forum . He's using JDEM as his handle nowadays ....

Ya,I think he's up around Alpena or Posen.

Alpena..his wife and mine belong to the same home school co-op

Ive been here well over 15 years, Ive seen em come and Ive seen em go. Life goes on.

John T

I have hanging around (lurking mostly) for nearly twenty years, I have not see a guy calling himself IHank for a long time. I think he lived around Ankeny, IA if I remember correctly.

I remember the sale at my dead best-friend's house on Percy Holmes Road. Kind of hard to forget. I was 800 miles away when I found out his estranged widow was auctioning off all his stuff. I drove back got to the auction when it was half-way over. I saw a lot of Bob's Oliver stuff go dirt cheap. Some stuff was missing and I don't know what ever happened to it (unless you got it). Bob had a OEM Oliver-Trasco aux. trans setup for an HG or OC3 and that wasn't there. He also had a few brand-new IXB-5 engines. New-old-stock, not rebuilt. I didn't see them either unless they sold before I got there. Must be bad blood up on the road. A few years earlier - there were three of us "collectors/hoarders who were friends. The guy at the bottom corner of Percy Holmes was Charlie Egloff. His wife left him because she said he had too many tractors and "never shut up." So, it was just him - and barns full of tractors, Model T parts, and much, much more. He died, and his wife who lived in another town - got everything. She treated me and Bob like enemies because we were friends of Charlie. Bob and I agreed we'd NEVER let such a thing happen to our stuff if we died. Well? A few years later - EXACTLY the same thing happened to Bob. He croaked. He had called me and said he had a bad cold - and it ended up he had a super aggessive form of lung cancer. Dead as a door-nail pretty quick. So HIS estranged wife got all and did with it as she pleased. Most went at that auction where most when dirt-cheap. I have no idea where the other stuff went.

(quoted from post at 11:50:02 03/20/16) He has some equipment for sale in the classified ads. I met him at an auction on Percy Holmes road but I doubt he remembers. The HG I have now came from that sale.

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Kind of a funny story behind that HG you bought. You DID get the wide-track with the loader, correct? I ought to watch what I say on these forums since you never knows who reads them. Oh well. Too bad. Bob's place was what was left of his parent's family farm. There was a farm-house he owned across the road that he rented. So, Bob was sort of a "benevolent land-lord." That neighbor borrowed that HG you bought and kept it for years. Bob had been stewing over it and did not want to cause hard feelings and kept quiet. Bob told me that some day that old HG would stop running and then the neighbor would beg him to fix it - and he'd get it back. THEN, exactly that happened. It was pretty funny. Engine died. Neighbor did not tell Bob at first. He went out and got a "local expert" who just made things even worse. Finally the "expert" came to Bob's house to ask advice on how to get someone's old HG running. He had the carb apart, the mag apart, etc. Seems the guy did not even realize Bob owned it? I was there and we both got a laugh out of it. As I recall, sometime later we towed it back to Bob's place and he did NOT want to fix it. He was afraid if he got it running again - and the neighbor/tenant found out - he'd come and "borrow" it again. Glad you got it. Went dirt cheap as I recall. I would of bought it - except I was in the "I'm getting the heck out of NY mode" at that point. I wonder who got Bob's 1902 Oldsmobile?

JDEM, My wife wants to leave New York when she retires. She was born in Florida and she loves it there. I don't think this HG was the wide track but it did sell for about $800. I lived about 2 miles from Randy Merrill's house on West Platner Brook and used to help him at sap season and dragging equipment home before moving to Worcester.

does he still post, never saw anything after leaving new york?

Was it Randy Merrril who had Laneway's old track press? One of the Merril's did. He did some pins and bushings on my Cletrac HG once with the press. I called him a year later to do some more and I think someone told me he was dead? Is that true?

Yes, I had seen him at Walmart about two weeks before he died. He had a back operation a few weeks before that. Do you remember his GP in the front a Laneway? He had to race to Otsego iron and metal to save that track press.

Yes, he told me about getting that press. My boss at the Deere dealerhip - Louis Trask had ordered me and another guy to load up that little press and scrap it. It still worked fine! Louis just wanted it out of the shop. I wanted it but Louis said he'd fire me if he found out I salvaged it. A few weeks later - Louis has us clean out an entire building full of new, old-stock Deere parts from the 30s and 40s. Brand new and most got scrapped (I snuck a few things out). I found a brand new cylinder-block that fit my 1936 BO and took it home. I guess if Louis finds out now - he can't fire me anymore.

Here's another story when I first moved to Worcester in 1997 he called me. He had heard about a BO Linderman crawler in Worcester and wanted me to find out about it. I was busy working at the Greenhouse on Southside and didn't find out anything. He called me back and wanted me to get a hold of you but I didn't get around to it. I saw Ron Van Buren and he told me that BO Linderman went out west maybe North Dakota. His brother Jack just had surgery and isn't going to have the tractor show this year. I filled in behind the old Laneway building last year. Kubota wanted Sharon Springs Garage to install a larger door so we filled in the loading dock area.

when I first moved to Worcester in 1997 he called me. He had heard about a BO Linderman crawler in Worcester and wanted me to find out about it..

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I used to work on that BO crawler. The town clerk's husband George Clark owned it. When he died - many locals wanted to buy it. NOPE. The family stuck it in Austin's Auction in Colliersville and a preacher-friend of mine (who I won't give a name to) - bought it for $700 and he had NO money to pay for it. So he went home and stuck it on Ebay before he ever even got it from the auction house. It sold a few hours later for a couple of thousand as I recall with the "buy now" option. So my friend got payment (or a deposit) up front and then went down to the auction house and paid for it. He made a couple of thousand bucks and never spent any money up front nor did he ever even have to lay a hand on the BO crawler.