[AT] Ang.: Probably not the best choice for me

[Dick Day]

Ditto here. Back in 2004, my wife and I sat down and figured up all the 
money we had spent over the years on older tractors, and their repair costs, 
and realized that we could have more than paid for a new tractor.  This 
realization hit after one day my back "popped" and it took me an hour to 
dis-mount the Super MTA.  We sold it (kept the restored ones) and bought a 
new (2004) New Holland Boomer with loader and had a Curtis cab (with heater) 
installed.  I still love the old ones (Hubers, A-C's and JD's) but to do the 
things we need done around here, the Boomer is a life saver.

Just tonight I was thinking how glad I was that I went for the cheaper cab 
that did NOT have A/C.  In the morning, I'll go out and start moving snow :)

Dick Day

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From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:09 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Ang.:  Probably not the best choice for me

Farmer:
Exactly the reason I spent $30k+ for the New Holland w/ cab and loader.
  I just had to have something that made life easier.  After toying with
it for the last couple of days, it really seems to be the one to keep...

Cecil in OKla

Mattias Kessén wrote:
> Hi farmer,
> You could always put it in a container and send,  I sure could mount and
> dismount;-)
>
> Mattias
>
> Den 12 8, 2009 2:01 PM, "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com> 
> skrev:
>
> Most of you know that I recently bought a little Massey Harris Pony
> tractor to add to the "herd". As I look at it I probably didn't make
> the best choice for me personally by buying it. I bought it because of
> fond memories of the first one I ever saw which was new in Ferguson
> Gray paint on display at the local county fair back in the early
> 1950's. It was love at first sight and I looked at them several more
> times at the Indiana State Fair. I thought then (as a kid) that one of
> those was maybe even more desirable than that girl in my class that I
> had a crush on.
> The little Pony starts easy and runs like a top and I have driven it a
> few times, the last when I drove it to the barns down the road and
> parked it inside for the winter. Any work on it will probably not
> happen before about March.
> There are a couple of reasons that I say that it may not have been the
> best choice for me. Probably the biggest reason is that like the
> little Yanmar 1500 I just sold there are certainly other tractors that
> are easier to mount / dismount. The next is that once in the saddle
> and with my feet in the stirrups it is a little hard for my old bones
> to twist around enough to see back. Not as bad as the Yanmar but no
> where near as easy as on the Ferguson TO-20 or the Case VAC.
> One serious defect that the Pony has is that neither the PTO nor the
> belt pulley works at all. After looking long and hard at it and giving
> it a great deal of thought I have concluded that the reason they do
> not work is that it does not have either one of them... OK I can buy a
> set and install them later but I'm not sure I want to spend the money
> when so many are waiting in line for tires etc.
> It has a rudimentary 3 point hitch on it that someone has created with
> cultivator lift parts but it does not have a regular drawbar. Not a
> big deal and I will probably fabricate something unless I find one
> somewhere cheap.
> I guess its biggest problem is that it does not have a job... It can
> just sit around and look pretty but that is my job description. ;-)
> I have the Farmall Cub for those jobs where such a tractor is
> appropriate and the TO-20 and VAC are only a little bigger. All three
> are much easier to mount / dismount. I already use the TO-20
> constantly and as soon as I get a chance to mount the new back tire I
> expect to be using the VAC a lot.
> I guess I will just make the Pony pretty and haul it to shows...
> I was looking for a very reasonable 9N - 2N or 8N Ford when I ran
> across the Pony. I guess I will still keep looking for one
> (shhhhhhhh!). I'm selling some of my old farm stuff and some $$$$
> might just fall through the cracks eventually.  :-)
>
>
> --
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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