[AJD] Fwd: Re: [JDAT] Re: ebay # 280197269334

richard carlson dtractors at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 2 20:36:23 PST 2008


Boy all this over the size of JD model D tractor tires,LOL.  This NG stuff is a result of the 30 year turn around. People interested in old  tractors or cars or whatever usually go back to what they were raised up with about 30 years ago. A lot of the tractor people now grew up with the NG tractors so that is what they are collecting. Same thing with cars. Use to be Model T and Model A Fords and the cars of the 30's were the hot collectors,then it moved to the 40's,then the 50's,then the 60's and now the muscle cars.
Same thing happened with tractors. It started out with steam engines and horses and then evolved from there. The first time I went to the Mt.Pleasant,Iowa show there were only about 30 or 40 tractors there and over 200 steam engines and a bunch of horses. That was in about 1976. I used to take my tractors there and it just got bigger and bigger. I think the last time I went there were over 300 tractors there,that was in about 1990.
 
So guess what I am saying is things change if we like it or not.  And J.R. without you this hobby would be a lot different, Thank You. That goes for a lot of other people on this list also.
 
Dick



> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:40:58 -0800> From: kenejons61 at yahoo.com> To: antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com> Subject: Re: [AJD] Fwd: Re: [JDAT] Re: ebay # 280197269334> > JR, > > Thanks for your thoughts, as they are right on target. As you stated, there will always be those who will not be pleased with a particular edition. Please keep up the excellent work that Jack and you are doing feeding us the information about a darn good product whether it be 2 Cylinder or New Generation. If we as subscribers don't like a particular edition or article, we have choices, we can elect not to read that edition or article, we can send a complaint letter or we can cancel our subscription and cut our nose off to spite our face. You folks have presented us with a wealth of knowledge over the past 20+ years and I for one have been be pleased with your choice of articles since you haven't let me down in my eighteen years of subscriptions. Best of health to you and we will keep you in our thoughts.. > > Just My Humble Opinion... > > > Ken Jones> > "J.R. Hobbs" <jrhobbs2004 at yahoo.com> wrote:> > > > Frank,> > If you knew anything about the economics of the publishing business, you'd know that what you propose simply isn't possible. The rest of this year will be far more TC than NG, but there will be some NG this, and will be for the foreseeable future. You have to realize that people like Jack and myself, no matter what our personal preferences might be, have to try to please over 18K subscribers per issue, which simply isn't possible. > > As for the cover photo, I thought it was great, no matter who it was taken for. But everybody likes different stuff. We get people who are PO'ed we won't put a photo of their chrome-plated butchered-up pulling tractor on the cover (not gonna happen, EVER) ,so it's a no-win situation.> > I'm sorry, I don't think we're out of balance. How many more times would you like us to go over every fact and re-run (for the 4th or 5th time) every photo we have on, say, early Model "D" Tractors? There's no interest in them. We've not had a spoker D at Expo for 3 years!! If we covered what's popular right now, it would be "20" and "30" Series tractors. I think you'd get sick of those in short orderl> > I'm sorry you feel the way you do. I hope that someday you'll see that we're doing what we think is necessary for the hobby to continue. Jack is 65, I'm 55, disabled, with a possibly terminal illness, and there's nobody coming up to take our places.We're trying to recruit people and getting nowhere, because you have to devote your life to this, and young people don't want to do that. What's gonna happen when Jack says "Enough", or if I die? If we don't get this info out while we're alive, it may never get out at all. Chew on that for a while.> > JR> > Frank wrote:> > JR> > still think you should put NG in their own mag.......then you will say put> implements in one too........> I am only interested in two cylinder and don't read about NG.......I do> agree with you that there is a place just don't think it is this> mag........I also agree that it is a tractor that is becoming collectable> but.......> > The picture is a great picture and I imagine Mr Cherry was proud of it as> his son and future family should be....> > could be some sort of balance in your mag but ...........> > Frank> gremaux at midrivers.com> ----- Original Message ----- > > _______________________________________________> Antique-johndeere mailing list> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/antique-johndeere> > > _______________________________________________> Antique-johndeere mailing list> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/antique-johndeere



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