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

Tue Dec 8 20:50:46 PST 2009

Dick I just had the good fortune of selling a 1931 Huber. It  must have 
been a power house with that big Sterns engine. Sold for $8000.00.  This 
auction was held in Le Center, MN a month ago. I also sold a  Huber Steam engine 
on this Auction. It was a straw burner, a nice engine, had it  state 
inspected and passed with flying colors. It was certified at working  pressure 135# 
same as when it was built in 1904 or 05. They Came off of the same  farm 
about sixty years ago. 
Ernie from MN  

In a message dated 12/8/2009 10:30:15 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
ddss at telebeep.com writes:

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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