[AT] Where the tractors are

[John & Jan Paur]

  Be careful when you call a lady in her 70's OLD !!!  John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Bill Brueck" <b2 at chooka.net>
  To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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  Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [AT] Where the tractors are


  > 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-----
  > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
  > [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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