The John Deere 420 Crawler I Bought in a Gravel Lot: Three Mistakes, Roughly $2,300, and the Checklist I Actually Use
A first-person account of buying a 1956 John Deere 420 crawler, the breaker box rework, a wrong X350 parts run to Tractor Supply, and the forklift training mistake that turned a two-week project into three months.