[AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?

[Gene Dotson]

    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>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:13 PM
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>> 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
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> Ralph in Sask.
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