Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

I’m spending the day working quite a ways from home in Missouri wine country in hills above the Missouri River. I don’t know if it’s we’ll know or not but Missouri has very good and well known wineries rivaling most of the US. I passed through a small town and guess what I stumbled on? A couple of nice Case GT relaxing in the weed next to a very old service station. I thought it made a nice picture! I was going to ask about them but nobody was around. Looks like they have been there awhile and I’m guessing they aren’t going anywhere. Who know maybe someone will be there next time I pass though.

Looks like a nice area to visit.

Had dinner with the wife and kids for my wifes birthday at a nice restaurant on the water tonight. The restaurant overlooks battleship cove. There is a battleship, a destroyer and a sub in the water. They also have some PT boats out of the water.
https://www.battleshipcove.org/

@MattA for me it's like a movie, that's some cool and scary stuff. Happy birthday to your wife!

20 to 25 years ago when I was in the boy scouts I stayed overnight on the battleship Massachusetts on the right. Had a lot of fun. I don't think I've been there since. I'll have to make a trip when the weather cools off.

I could spend a day and a half going through those ships! If you go back I hope you can get some pictures.

We used to have a WW2 mine sweeper docked on the St. Louis riverfront. The USS Inaugural. I went through it a couple of times as a kid. I remember there were 2 guns on the back deck that had manual traverse and elevation. You could sit at each gun and crank the handles to move them around. Unfortunately during the great flood of 93 she broke her moorings, floated downriver and sank. A rather sad ending for sure.

MattA wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:51 pm 20 to 25 years ago when I was in the boy scouts I stayed overnight on the battleship Massachusetts on the right. Had a lot of fun. I don't think I've been there since. I'll have to make a trip when the weather cools off.

@MattA I got to do the same thing with my son when he was in Scouts. For us it was the carrier Yorktown in Charleston harbor. An unforgettable experience! Thanks for bringing up that good memory!

Bob

I can relate to the ship stories my self. In Buffalo they have two ships and a sub. I too spent a night on the Sullivans ship with my sons scout troop. We have also taken my grand children on the ships and sub tours. The Croaker the sub is very tight quarters inside. The local AWS chapter I am a board member of do repair community projects. Last year we fix some metal sculptures at a local sculpture park. This year a group went to the Naval park to look at the ships that needed repairs. The commander told us he could keep a crew busy every day for years with all the repairs that needed to be done. Some of the repairs had to be done hanging over the end of the ship. Way over the scope of our group of members, so we balked at the project. That’s my ramble for the week. Harry

Nerve wrecking I tell you.

Nerve wrecking is an under statement. The bore has to be parallel to the horizontal crank journal. At 16 years old I preformed a complete rebuild on a G900 Moline, Displacement 451 ci and a Bore/Stroke of 4.375x5.00 inches. The head and block assemblies were 3 independent castings 1-2, 3-4, 5-6. When putting it back together I swapped piston and rods so it went 1-2, 4-3, 5-6 while the block and head kept the original orientation. At cold start the there was a tremendous engine knock. Pulling the pan for inspection required removing the front axil, not a quick job. I pulled the pan twice before seeing the rod cap stamps 3 & 4 in the wrong position. Uncle Laymen was my mentor and advised leaving the pistons in as I had assembled them. He said the connecting rods were basically lined bored for the position they were stamped for.
They must have needed the extra tractor at the time as the pistons was never swapped . The G900 was in continual use with a frontend loader for loading silage for at least another 30 years. We just got use to hearing the knock until the engine warmed up.