[AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?

[Rupert]

Hello Ralph,
	Do you live in that part of Sask.? I had a chance to see the deep ruts 
on the side roads last October when I went down to the Estevan Model 
Engine Show. I stayed on the pavement but the country side sure looked wet.
	Dad bought a new Cockshutt 40 in about 1952 that looked just like the 
one in the picture. Put many hours on it doing field work and farm 
chores- mostly grinding feed.

Rupert

Ralph Goff wrote:
> Now heres a chance for you to own your own Cockshutt 40 at an auction sale 
> right here in Sask. next spring.
>  http://www.mackauctioncompany.com/10-apr21.html
> It appears to be an older model with the shoe type drum brakes but it sure 
> is in good shape appearance wise. Can't quite figure out the hydraulics on 
> this one as it does not have the factory reservoir yet that rear mount mower 
> has the hydraulic hoses plugged into the outlets on the tractor. Pto driven 
> pump maybe?
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?
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> 
>>    Ralph;
>>    I never owned a Cockshutt 50, but started driving driving one in 1958.
>> It was a diesel owned by my best friend's dad who I worked for for my last 
>> 2
>> years in school. Also had a Co-op E-4 gas tractor.
>>    I was driving the E-4 one evening with a rope trip plow and when I came
>> to the end and tripped the rope to raise the plow, I looked back to make
>> sure the plow raised as I was turning on the headland and when I turned 
>> back
>> around, the tractor had not turned and went straight down an 8 foot
>> ditchbank to the bottom. The pin in the steering u-joint had come out
>> letting the wheel turn free. Tractor went straight in to the bottom and no
>> harm was done. Jim had a chain on the 50 and pulled the plow out backward
>> and then we put a bolt in the u-joint and pulled the Co-op backward up the
>> hill. Hooked up the plow and went back to work. Don't think his dad ever
>> knew about that.
>>
>>                                                Gene
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?
>>
>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:24 PM
>>> Subject: [AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>> Anyway, when did you start collecting?
>>>>
>>> I guess I never called it collecting. Just never got around to selling 
>>> any
>>> of the ones that came to the farm.
>>> Just thinking, its been 50 years with the Cockshutt 50 this fall.
>>> http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=77546
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>>
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Rupert Wenig
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