The Keck's gone

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

We finally got a trucker here yesterday to haul the Keck Gonnerman to it's new owner down by Louisville. Heck of a nice young guy bought it. Just glad it went to a good home..

Paul from MI · Nov 23, 2016

Always good to know that it'll be treasured in the future. Whoever the trucker was knew how to chain down a load. I see way to many unsecured loads on the road. Seems like guys hauling lawn tractors are the worst.

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

My only concern with the way he chained it is that those are cast wheels. Hope they stood the trip alright. One already had a chunk welded back in where it'd been broke before.

Dave H (MI) · Nov 23, 2016

Was that yours? Don't think I recall you mentioning it before.

K Effective · Nov 23, 2016

I see all your snow lasted as long as ours did!

D beatty · Nov 23, 2016

If it's chained tight to trailer the trailer will take the beating .Now if chains get loose and tractor gets lest amount of movement than you could break something.

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

It belonged to my brother in law. He passed away in July. That's him running the sawmill at Oakley with it.

Straw Boss · Nov 23, 2016

I think I would have pounded some wheel chokes under the drive wheels on both sides and nailed them into the bed and then chain it down against them. That would give three points of contact on each wheel to help prevent flexing the cast wheels and prevent rocking on the trailer from rough roads but that's just me. To each their own.

D beatty · Nov 23, 2016

Sounds like its going back close home where it was built.

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

I guess it made it alright. The wife got a message from Tyler,the guy who bought it. He said it was there. Didn't say there was any damage.

The ones made for field work had steel wheels. This one was made for belt work,so it had the cast wheels. These wheels would break if you ran them over a stone with a load of water in them.

retired farmer · Nov 23, 2016

What does an engine like that sell for?

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

Twenty five for that one. It was restored,but not totally period correct. A Keck guy appraised it and said if it was period correct,it would be worth thirty to thirty two,but that one would cost around five thousand to make it absolutely correct. It was a super nice machine,but not exceptionally rare.

rrc300 u · Nov 23, 2016

Must have been a different feeling seeing it roll out. Did they ever get to put his ashes out the stack. I think I remember reading that was his wish.

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

Ya. We had the ceremony on September 10th. Quite a crowd despite rain earlier in the day.

DENNIS MIN · Nov 23, 2016

rrlund,

The Keck is not gone...just in a different barn waiting its turn for a chance at operation.

D.

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

Ya,I couldn't be happier about who got it. We've probably spent more time with him than somebody who adopted a child did with the birth parents. He said he'd let us know when he was going to have it at a show next summer so we could come and see it run again.

Straw Boss · Nov 23, 2016

I should add that the steamer looks to be a beautiful machine. Must have had a lot of TLC from a caring owner.

rrlund · Nov 23, 2016

He put years in to restoring that beauty. It was pretty much his life.

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