Now you know the car! Only mine's a 1921 "Centerdoor" Sedan, not a roadster. They are the rarest of the T's. One door on each side in the middle like a carriage. Not restored, but maintained with all original parts.
Shovel? I can dig you a moat easier with the backhoe! No exaggeration there. I was lucky enough to find a local surveyor selling off some of his equipment. There sat a 60’s vintage John Deere diesel backhoe / wheel loader with a for sale sign for $3,500! I though a few zeros were missing, so I tried to call the number on the sign from a phone booth across the street. No answer. So I called my wife at home to tell her what I found and to keep trying the number. I wasn’t leaving it. I removed the sign and literally sat on it until he arrived. Started with hydraulics working, bought it on the spot. That was 12 years ago, used it to put in a driveway, and to dig our basement. Would be lost here without it. Major rocks in the Pocono’s. Great for taking down trees, lifting truck bodies, motors in boats…… digging moats. We have about 3 acres of woods, on a private road, so it gets a workout a few times a year.
I guess my problem with the area is really due to what we caused ourselves. With that machine, affectionately called “Dino” as in dinosaur, we built our own home from the ground up. After putting in a long U shape driveway back into the woods, digging the basement, using it to place beams…… Near the end I put the shingles up on the roof with him….. The home I designed on paper grew to a 4,000 foot monster that today is almost done. Lived in it 10 years while building in our spare time. So when the cost is only materials, you use the best available, and it becomes an overbuilt house for the area. Now I’ve learned while looking for rental properties to always buy the WORST property in the BEST area. We have built the BEST home in the WORST area, therefore we’ll never get our money out of it. We built it to live in forever, so it shouldn’t be an issue. But knowing it’s value against it’s worth, is a bummer putting so much work into it. We joke with the commercial kitchen appliances, (I’m in the LP gas business, so I’m spoiled working on professional kitchen equipment) that it could be a bed and breakfast inn! Maybe the grass is always greener, but now a little log cabin in the woods is looking better and better.
The Hummer was an exaggeration, too wide for off roading and parking lots around here. (I am into the American General Humvee, or H 1, not the fake plastic Chevrolet Suburban they call the H 2) But the service truck is a diesel, the highest priced fuel on the road, so we finally got an everyday vehicle that will get us there quicker than the T. We’re not that backward anymore. Just call us unique, not strange!
Shovel? I can dig you a moat easier with the backhoe! No exaggeration there. I was lucky enough to find a local surveyor selling off some of his equipment. There sat a 60’s vintage John Deere diesel backhoe / wheel loader with a for sale sign for $3,500! I though a few zeros were missing, so I tried to call the number on the sign from a phone booth across the street. No answer. So I called my wife at home to tell her what I found and to keep trying the number. I wasn’t leaving it. I removed the sign and literally sat on it until he arrived. Started with hydraulics working, bought it on the spot. That was 12 years ago, used it to put in a driveway, and to dig our basement. Would be lost here without it. Major rocks in the Pocono’s. Great for taking down trees, lifting truck bodies, motors in boats…… digging moats. We have about 3 acres of woods, on a private road, so it gets a workout a few times a year.
I guess my problem with the area is really due to what we caused ourselves. With that machine, affectionately called “Dino” as in dinosaur, we built our own home from the ground up. After putting in a long U shape driveway back into the woods, digging the basement, using it to place beams…… Near the end I put the shingles up on the roof with him….. The home I designed on paper grew to a 4,000 foot monster that today is almost done. Lived in it 10 years while building in our spare time. So when the cost is only materials, you use the best available, and it becomes an overbuilt house for the area. Now I’ve learned while looking for rental properties to always buy the WORST property in the BEST area. We have built the BEST home in the WORST area, therefore we’ll never get our money out of it. We built it to live in forever, so it shouldn’t be an issue. But knowing it’s value against it’s worth, is a bummer putting so much work into it. We joke with the commercial kitchen appliances, (I’m in the LP gas business, so I’m spoiled working on professional kitchen equipment) that it could be a bed and breakfast inn! Maybe the grass is always greener, but now a little log cabin in the woods is looking better and better.
The Hummer was an exaggeration, too wide for off roading and parking lots around here. (I am into the American General Humvee, or H 1, not the fake plastic Chevrolet Suburban they call the H 2) But the service truck is a diesel, the highest priced fuel on the road, so we finally got an everyday vehicle that will get us there quicker than the T. We’re not that backward anymore. Just call us unique, not strange!
