[AT] Ralph's website

[charlie hill]

Lou, you are exactly correct.  Most farmers believe in doing things right 
but what they are worried about doing right is raising their crop and 
getting it to the market.  A repair on a piece of equipment is absolutely 
not important when your whole years income is in the field going bad and you 
owe the bank a bunch of money.  Taking the time to do a correct repair on a 
tractor at that point is about like stopping to tie your shoe when you are 
running for your life.  You just can't do it and if you trip on your shoe 
string you just kick your shoe off and run barefooted.   Of course we all 
know that Walt can put turkey feathers up his butt and fly backwards on 
methane while he repairs a tractor with one hand and castrates bulls with 
the other.

Charlie

Charlie
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From: "Louis" <louis at kellnet.com>
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> Walt,
>
> When I used to farm, sometimes there just isn't enough time to do all that
> needs to be done.  We would make temporary repairs to get the equipment
> going again.  Then when things slowed down, we would do the correct 
> repair.
> Sometimes it is less costly to limp the jury rigged along, as opposed to
> losing the crop.  I say this, because we used to raise fruit and vegetable
> crops. So, timely harvest was of the utmost importance, as opposed to
> spending a days worth of time making repairs, let alone waiting for the
> parts that are needed.
>
> I believe in doing repairs correctly, but it can't always happen at the
> moment something breaks.
>
> Lou
>
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> DAVIESW739 at aol.com
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>
> Farmer,
> Every time we get an old  piece of equipment to restore the first thing we
> do
> is replace all those jury  rigged things that people like you put on it. 
> No
> I'm not in a dream world I'm  just one who likes to do the job correctly 
> the
>
> first time and not have to do it  over later because it didn't work. But 
> you
> just go ahead and do your  old farmer baling wire repairs if it keeps
> you happy.
>
> Walt  Davies
> Cooper Hollow Farm
> Monmouth, OR 97361
> 503 623-0460
>
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