[AT] think I' stick with red ones now rambling

[Paul]

Ceil
Thanks for rambling, I enjoyed it
Paul Waugh

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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] think I' stick with red ones

I can't imagine how I would explain that purchase to my wife!  I also 
could not imagine having that much money to spend on a tractor to sit in 
the barn!

In my opinion this tractor is Deere's answer to the Ford and Ferguson 
tractors with 3 point.  I used almost every kind of tractor in the 60's 
and I have to say that no one could come close to the draft control that 
Massey Ferguson had on their 35, thru 85 tractors.  We had a 35 then 
traded it for a diesel 50 then sold it and bought 2 85 series tractors. 
One was diesel and one was propane.  I sure miss that propane tractor.  
We would have to pull it during cold weather to start it, but then we 
always had to pull the diesel to start it the first time of the day.  
Batteries are sure better now.  We then sold that one and got a G 1000 
Moline.  It used about 100 gallons of propane a day when really 
pulling.  We spent about $1500 on engine parts.  and another $1500 on 
the 2 speed.  It had a 3 point hydraulic lift that would pick up almost 
anything.  I used it loading hay in the field with a trailer that we 
carried on the 3 point at one end and the wheels were at the other.  
That lift would lift the front end off the ground it had so much power.  
The tractor had a 5 speed transmission, but 2 gears would jump out.  We 
never fixed that problem, as we were just sick of having to work on it.  
We bought it on the side of the road as the owner was driving it about 
14 miles to a sale, when the engine quit.  We drug it home with a tire 
chain for a tow chain.  It took us 3 days to assemble the engine after 
we got the machine work done.  Then waited 2 weeks for the "dealer" in 
ElReno to get the 2 speed fixed.  He had forfeited his dealer ship on 
Moline about 2 years before, but still appeared to be a dealer.  He 
bought all his parts at retail from another dealer then marked them up 
about 40%....  The guy was a real piece of work....  Rott Equipment.   
When we got it together, we had to fix a problem in one of the final 
drives.  The real problem with a Moline was whenever you had to remove a 
housing, you had bolts from all directions.  You usually had to remove 
aboupt 4 times more parts to get to the one you needed.  There always 
was a hidden bolt.  They were built tough, but a pain to work on.  The 
G1000 we had should have been salvaged.  It was just abused beyond 
belief before we got it...

I am retired now, but I would not take on a project like that one.  
However, I was 20 years old, single and had a lot of energy and thought 
there was a future in farming. 

I sold 44 of my Blackbelly sheep lambs yesterday. I got top price for 
them.  However after the sale barn took out 25% for commissions etc..  I 
did not break even on the feed.

Just a ramble this morning over coffee.

Cecil in OKla



Mattias Kessén wrote:
> Bidder 21 has had a 500.000 USD bid retracted, did he meet reserve with
that
> faulty bid?
>
> Mattias
>
>
> 2007/3/29, John Grant <jfgrant at zoomon.net>:
>   
>> And if it sells, then the second place bidder becomes the FIRST looser!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] think I' stick with red ones
>>
>>
>>     
>>> The difference is that for quite a few thousand extra dollars the new
>>> owner
>>> gains the imagined right for chest thumping over the other 843.  If the
>>> reserve isn't met the seller who declined the highest bid becomes in
>>> effect
>>> the new buyer and can then thump his chest with more gusto.
>>>
>>> George Willer
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Like I said, it may be the first, but it is still not
>>>> one of a kind. It is one of 844.
>>>> John Boehm
>>>> Woodland, CA
>>>> Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com
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