P.O. Box 28, Hardinsburg, IN 47125
It all started out on my 14th birthday. When my dad got home
from work he came to me and said he had something for me. After he
led me outside, I opened my eyes.
There it was. An Avery. I always wanted an Avery Model V.
After unloading it, I pushed it in the barn. The next morning, I
went to the barn before school. The suspense was just killing me. I
put the crank in and nothing. It was stuck!
After school, I took the hood, the gas tank, radiator, the
plugs, and the fan off. After about two weeks of squirting
lubrication in it, my dad and I put a pipe wrench and a 6 foot long
steel pipe on the crankshaft pulley, and it finally broke loose.
After I freed up the valves, rewired the ignition, had my dad
rebuild the starter, and rewired most of the tractor, it was time
for the big moment. We put the gas tank on, made a gas line and
then we cranked up the old Farmall M. I bet we pulled that thing a
half an hour. It just wouldn’t start.
So, we put it in the barn again and back to the drawing board we
went. We checked the ignition-it worked fine. The only thing left
was the carburetor. We ended up taking it off three different times
and the third time we must have done the right thing because when
we put it back on and we cranked it three times, she started. I was
never so happy in my life.
After about two months of running the bugs out of it and
adjusting it, it ran perfect. After spending three months painting
it, I showed it at one show last summer.
This fall a man from Florida came up to my house and gave me an
air filter for it and a few weeks later I went to our local tractor
junkyard and bought headlights for it. Now it is starting to look
like the Avery I always wanted.
