Re: International 574, Would this be a good First

Posted by I Want a Tractor on September 01, 2006 at 23:07:57 from (4.168.255.18):

In Reply to: International 574, Would this be a good First Trac posted by I Want a Tractor on September 01, 2006 at 14:41:47:

Thanks for the replies.

I'll give him a call in the morning and arange to check it out (if he still has it.) The ad reads as follows:

%%B"International 574, 52 hp, diesel with orchard fenders, 80% rubber, $2995;"%%B

My plan (for whatever tractor I purchase) is to go over it and make repairs, work on the apearance a bit and use it around my orchard and adjoing open field space. Need to keep the weeds down, maybe pull a few small stumps, etc. It's just one acre with a house on it.

Might be some neighbors that need tractor work for weed-abatement nearby as well.

I have a cousin in Salem, Oregon that used to own 300 acres planted in wheat and ryegrass. Ran his tractor there a couple summers in my teens.

Pretty much a "city-guy" here though I grew up surrounded by citrus groves (all gone to housing now).

Two years of high-school auto-shop, classes in welding at community-college, worked plant-maintainence in an Aerspace Forge-Shop and in an Engineering Office before I went back to college for a Bussiness Admin degree.

Over the years I've rebuilt several automotive engines, transmissions (practically everything else on a car / light-truck), light fabrication and machine-shop work, built an 11-second drag-race car, two V-8 CJ-5 Jeeps, airplane-engine repairs (while working toward an FAA Airframe / Powerplant Cert) and nearly have my FAA Commercial-Pilot Certificate with 400-Hours total Flight-time (checkride-prep) and working toward a Flight-Instructor certificate too.

I have accumulated a fair number of tools, big two-Stage Compressor (lots of pneumatic tools,) Gas, Stick and MIG Welding-Equipment, shop press, small lathe and mill, etc...

Still, this will be a new challenge for me and I'm sure I'll need some good advice from you guys in the future.

Thanks Again,
Derek C.

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