[AT] Tractor club now Larry Goss trip

[charlie hill]

I take it you are safely back home now.  I'm sure that is a very interesting 
place to tour.  Maybe some day I'll make it there.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor club now Larry Goss trip


I spent a week at an International graphics conference in Dresden for the 
first week, but spent the next 2.5 weeks in Poland visiting with my son and 
his extended family.  No "Quest" (I presume you have read that book) but 
certain aspects of the things we visited reminded me of that.  The East Line 
in pre-WWII Germany has to be experienced to be believed.  I visited a 
portion of the over 500 miles of bunkers and interconnected underground 
military installations that extended the entire length of the eastern 
boundary of 1934 Germany.  It's unbelievable.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:37
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor club now Larry Goss trip
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Larry, what is the purpose of your trip?  Just for fun or
> are you on some
> sort of quest or mission?  By the way, I'd stay clear of
> Georgia if I were
> you!!!
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor club now decorating for a show
>
>
> No. Things are much different in climate here in western Poland
> (beween
> Warta and Odra rivers) than other places we have visited in the
> last three
> weeks. We are getting daily reports from the Baltic coast and it
> is much
> wetter up there than it is here.
>
> We toured the East Line between those rivers two days ago. These
> defensive
> installations that were built in 1934 bring back many unpleasant
> memories
> for me of WWII. I was just a kid during the war, but the extent
> of the
> madness that was going on at that time is incomprehensible. We
> toured about
> 1.5 kilometers of tunnels. There are over 170 kilometers of
> tunnels that
> have been explored, but there are still nearly 2 kilometers-
> worth that have
> been documented in old German writings but that have not been
> located.
> Supposedly, there are several complete museums full of materials
> squirreled
> away that could be located there. True?, Maybe.
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mattias Kessén <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 20:40
> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor club now decorating for a show
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-
> tractor.com>
> > Have they had the same weather as we have??
> >
> > Mattias
> >
> > 2008/8/19 Larry Goss <rlgoss at insightbb.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > Farmer, I'm sorry to change the subject on you, but I've been
> > thinking about you all day after going through a Polish town
> > near the German border that was having a farmer's fair all
> > through their downtown.
> > >
> > > As mascots or symbols of what was going on, they had decorated
> > all the routes in and out of town with super-size dolls dressed
> > as farmers and farmers wives. Each doll was made up of
> > three large round hay bales. Two were stacked vertically
> > on end for the body, and a third was laying down on top of
> > them. One end of the top bale was decorated as a face with
> > large pieces of cloth for the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the
> > rest of the body was draped and wrapped with large pieces of
> > cloth for the dress, apron, bib overalls, etc, and the wife had
> > a colorful bedspread as a babushka.
> > >
> > > IMHO, it was a clever idea, and I thought of you because of
> > the work you do at Connor's Prairie. Others on the list
> > may have seen this before and use it at shows, but this was a
> > first for me.
> > >
> > > I've been tempted to take picture after picture along the
> > route in the last couple of weeks because it is harvesting
> > season over here for a number of grains, but I decided not to,
> > simply because there is just so much going on. There is
> > everything from combining, mowing, and baling, to old-fashioned
> > fertizing (manure and lime) and lots of moldboard plowing and a
> > little minimum till soil preparation. The equipment is all
> > Bison, Claas, Ursas, Volvo, Peugeot, and a few other European
> > brands with models ranging from the mid-60's to present
> > day. I have seen just one, John Deere unit, and it was a
> > very late model.
> > >
> > > What corn I have seen growing looked pretty sick
> > It looked like it suffered from early drought and then got
> > drowned with too much water too late in the season.
> > >
> > > Larry
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