[AT] Fuel prices

Gene Dotson gdotsly at watchtv.net
Mon Dec 8 11:51:13 PST 2008


    Farmer;
    I have printed your remarks and will see that copies are delivered to 
the proper directors this Saturday night. You will be there won't you???

                Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Fuel prices


>A couple of us mentioned feeling more comfortable at current prices in
> fueling up our old tractors to putter with them than before when
> prices were so painful.
> It just dawned on me yesterday (some days I am a little slow) that it
> will certainly make hauling tractors to shows a "LOT" cheaper next
> summer (for those of us that still have an income then). I can squeeze
> 3 of  my smaller tractors on my trailer and have in the past made two
> hauling trips to Portland but had cut it out completely due largely to
> cost. Actually there was another reason I quit hauling a tractor to
> Portland but cost is the reason I quit hauling to several other shows.
> I quit hauling a tractor to Portland because they will no longer let
> us show our tractors together as a group. When they did that I dropped
> from several tractors to just the CUB in the gypsy wagon so we could
> just make one trip. Even then it was no longer an ATIS display.
> George's tractor was one place. Herbs was off somewhere else and mine
> was over behind some building alone. We no longer have a central
> gathering location other than the campground. I just lost all interest
> in showing there at all and didn't last year.
> I'm a big fan of tractor owners spending a little time with their
> tractors and visiting with the folks that are there looking. If I take
> 4 or 5 brands of tractors and they are scattered all over the grounds
> that goes out the window. I don't think sheer numbers makes a good
> show. If the tractor showmen would learn how to actively show with
> fairly constant interaction with the guest like the engine guys do
> then that would be an exceptional show.
> There is a reason that a running sawmill or threshing machine draws a
> crowd, something is happening... That is why the Girards (sp?) draw
> such a crowd. Walking past row after row of tractors many of which
> look exactly alike loses its draw pretty fast
> If some fool decides that we can't camp together at Portland anymore
> (we save them space by doing so) then I will probably just quit going
> at all...
>
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
> Morris Moulterd
>
>
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>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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