[AT] Where the tractors are

[Bill Brueck]

Damn right, Al, we gotta keep them furriners away from our stash of next
year's projects!

I was pulling a trailer across North Dakota 2 years ago one late spring day.
I was loaded with a pretty sorry looking 28 Deere D: hood, tank, radiator,
head were gone.  But great steel all around!  Anyway, every time I stopped
for fuel (which was discouragingly often) somebody would come up and want to
visit with me.  Invariably they had a family piece "just like that" out in
the grove. 

One old lady, must have been in her 70's, shuffled up to me and identified
the tractor dead on.  She said there was one out on her place where her dad
had parked it last he used it.  

So now I know the bait to troll along the highway to lure tractors out of
the weeds!

So many tractors, so little time...

B²

Bill Brueck
   Chatfield, Minnesota, USA

Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.


 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Al Walker
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:20 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Where the tractors are

Hey Joe,
Shhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ;-) You are giving away all of our MN
secrets.  If my checkbook was significantly healthier, I'd be out among
those fence rows myself.  
Ahhhhh, someday again.

Al in NW MN


jahaze at aol.com wrote:

>After spending a few weeks on the road this year, I was going to title 
>this e-mail, where have all the tractors gone, but then last week I was 
>in extreme northern Minnesota (along the Canadian border)and if there 
>is a tractor heaven, I think I found it.? Everyone had one, or two old 
>tractors in their yard, back woods, fence row, or junk yard (old cars 
>and trucks to).? I was amazed at the number of good projects laying 
>around, you just don't see that anymore.? I fell in love with an old 
>CO-OP (not the cockshutt kind) along one of the many fence rows I 
>inspected.? If I can find the owner, I'm going to have to see if I can 
>work something out (I'm heading back again next week, although I don't 
>know how I will fit it on the plane)
>
>Anyway, it was a highlight to an otherwise boring week, so I thought I'd
share it with you.
>
>Enjoy, Joe
>
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