[AT] Breakage

[Almost-Running Deere]

In growing up on a farm we had very few incidents where anyhting got banged 
up.  Maybe being a bit poor we respected it more.  In looking around at 
auctions like yourself I am always amazed at how beat up some stuff is.  For 
some reason the utility tractors seem to take it on the nose-literally.  I 
have seen more nose cones busted than I care to remember.  It seems to me 
the small new generation JDs  1010, 2010, 1020, 2020 etc have had an 
exceptionally rough life.  I've often wondered why.  Another thing that 
interests me is tractors with the sheet metal removed.  With the posible 
exception of the side sheilds on Olivers why was it taken off and never 
replaced? Not to far doen the road I've seen a guy who plows snow with a cub 
which has no hood or grill.  Took me a couple times seeing it to understand 
what it was-it looks like a "homemade" from a distance.

Dana
SE PA

>From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: [AT] Breakage
>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:14:58 -0500
>
>On 10 Mar 2005 at 15:14, Almost-Running Deere wrote:
>
> > Sorry, Just what I've seen.  I think the chain was to keep from tearing 
>the
> > crap out of the tractor.  From what I have been told a non-frame mount
> > backhoe is aa a repair waiting to happen
> >
> > Dana
> > SE PA
>
>
>
>	This is one of those relative things... 95% of the life of a tractor or 
>any piece of
>equipment is the owner / operator. I like to say that "some guys could 
>break an anvil
>while straightening feathers"... That is a genuine "farmer" quote for you.  
>  :-)   I
>constantly see stuff broken that absolutely amazes me. Scott and I walk 
>around auction
>sales saying over and over, "how in the hell did they break that ?" I am 
>always surprised
>at how many tractors I see with the lights bashed off of them. I don't 
>believe I have
>ever bashed a light.  Smashed grills, crushed goods and fenders. Stuff like 
>broken off
>gearshift levers. Most (most, not all) "breaks" are a direct result of 
>abuse or miss-use,
>period.
>	My stuff is old and rusty and sometimes stuff wears out but we "break" 
>very very little.
>If you look at my stuff and see a big dent or bent stuff it is a pretty 
>good likelyhood
>that it was like that when we bought it. I have not hit a fence with a 
>tractor or an
>implement since I was 11 years old (that was a long time ago) and son Scott 
>never has.
>Our neighbor who farms behind me has hit the fence between us a couple of 
>times and I
>think his son hit it about 6 times as a teenager.  :-)
>	I'm not someone that uses a tractor "occasionally". I have farmed all of 
>my life and
>used to have a small excavating business.
>	I see the breakage on other farms, I just don't understand it...
>
>	Having said all of this I will probably go back outside and break a 
>tractor in half or
>something...   ;-)   Probably not, I am building a horse stall and 
>installing a drain and
>water line under it by hand.   :-)
>
>--
>"farmer", Esquire
>At Hewick Midwest
>       Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
>Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
>Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100 years
>before the revolution.
>
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson at svs.net
>
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