Did he ever try heating the bolts with a torch first? That diesel and oil mix works even better when the metal is warm, it pulls right into the threads instead of just sitting on top. I keep a squirt bottle of the same stuff in my garage and it has saved me more times than I can count on old farm equipment.

Man, this is the same thing I see with cars and furniture, everything old had actual personality and now it's all sleek gray boxes. I mean half the fun was hunting down some weird skin made by a guy named Sk8erBoi in 2003. Maybe it's just me but that whole era of the internet felt like people made stuff for fun instead of for clicks.

Did you also find out the hard way that "no known flooding" means jack? We paid $3,800 to regrade our backyard after the seller swore up and down there was never any water back there, and guess what, the neighbors told us it floods every spring.