The value is in the find, and then pondering the story about how it got there. Old tractors are that same thing with me. Who had them, what happened to them, how'd they get in the condition they are in. I find all that motivating. The people behind the find is also an important factor. The D17D I'm rebuilding right now belonged to a fellow in Oregon who died, his widow sold it a friend of mine just to restore, but he didn't have time, and still wanted it restored for the man who died. He turned it over to me and I think for all of us, it's about the life and times of the this man and his tractor, not because it will be worth anything to speak of when done. We don't get rich off our "finds", we do it for other reasons.
An interesting postlude to this thread is, there apparently is no well house or well anywhere near where the boy dug these up. Their well was just put in and not close. So there is a story behind those things sitting there in the middle of a pasture in the middle of nowhere, that they'll be pondering for some time.
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