[AT] Deere plant visit

[Bill "Bear" Hood]

In my misspent youth, I have more hours cutting common and coastal bermuda hay, hybred sorghum, and johnson grass with #9 and #39 and later JD pitman mowers than I care to remember.  I started cutting with at least 3 # 39"s and the first two had black bars and black cycles and the last one had a yellow bar and black cycle.  I later had to order a new 9' bar for a trail mower and it came with no paint at all.  I guess it was what JD had at the plant or if they had no paint at all.  When I started buying and replacing JD pitmans, they were green, but soon they were shipped varnished and stained with a yellow decal and I have also received black ones once at the Athens dealership with the yellow decal. I have a brand new one, varnished,  in the barn somewhere.  

I later had a  2 14' JD Self Propelled Swathers and they were  built by McKee in Canada and sometimes parts would come in with McKee paint on them rather than JD green or yellow.  I also remember cultivating rose bushes on a brand new Super A Farmall that had two different color paints on the plow parts--this would have been in '55 if my rememberer is correct.  

--- chill8 at cox.net wrote:

From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Deere plant visit
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:14:30 -0400

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> In a message dated 5/4/2006 10:08:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> rlcook at pionet.net writes:
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> I'll be  darned.  Green with yellow wheels.  Who'd a thunk it?
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> Ron  Cook
> Salix, IA
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> Quick, without looking Ron what color is the Sickle bar.
>
> Walt  Davies
> Cooper Hollow Farm
> Monmouth, OR 97361
> 503 623-0460
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