Off Season Project for my Hunting Room

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Off Season Project for my Hunting Room

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Hello all,

A number of months ago I mentioned to my neighbour that I wanted to find a vintage John Deere fridge to refinish for my hunting room (I'm a farm boy and grew up on a 600 acre farm and according to my dad if it was anything other than JD green it had better be passing through).

Well I came home from work one afternoon and found this sitting in my driveway with a note attached to it - "It's not a JD but its a fridge that should be a tractor". It was a 1949 International Harvester fridge.

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The original manufacturers instructions were still on the door and I managed to save them

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I found out later that the "bour" knew that my OCD would kick in and I would tackle the project ... He was right. The fridge had been outside for several years and it was in pretty rough shape.

I stripped the fridge down to its bare essential and rebuilt it. I had to McGuiver a number of parts that were missing and here is what I ended up with .... Finished product and ready for my hunting room ...

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Cheers,
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Looks pretty dang good!
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Great job ...that's sweeter than sweet.
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Very nice. Great conversation piece. You did an excellent job. (although you got H2O taking up precious beer space :D )
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Wow! What a nice job!!!
Glad to see you've already got it stocked with the essentials too :lol: :lol:
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Spect once you getstid done plowin, you can partake of a cold one n relax. Looks right nice
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That turned out amazing!!
I'm sure it will be an essential part of the "Man Cave"!
In fact it's downright Beautiful !!!

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Nice job! looks great
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That is awsome!!!! I never knew JD or International made frigs. Cool!!!

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Ok now that is cool, literally and figuratively. :lol: Well done!
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That puts a whole new meaning to TLC, hang in there you'll get to use that JD green one day, really nice.

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Wow is right! What a tremendous amount of work. Well worth the effort though, beautiful job. Awesome!
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That looks good . :)
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WOW
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paulaboutform wrote:Wow is right! What a tremendous amount of work. Well worth the effort though, beautiful job. Awesome!
Paul, back away slowly! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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