[AT] A CHALLENGE - - Can you name the first three tractors you drove?

[Larry Goss]

I collected farm toys for nearly 60 years before "converting" to real tractors.  When the price of the models started rivaling the cost of a real tractor that would actually do something, I made the switch and never turned back.

We were "city farmers".  Dad always had a full-time day job, and the farm was there to give us a sense of the rural life that my parents grew up with in their youth.  We had an aliquot -- basically, forty acres -- so we never had any brand new equipment, and it was never big and powerful.  I learned to handle George Gillef's team of horses before I was old enough to drive a tractor.  Dad bought a John Deere L from Walter Lamboley at the beginning of WWII, and I drove Harold Driver's Ferguson on occasion.  The John Deere burned in a barn fire in 1950, and it was replaced with a used Allis-Chalmers G.  The G is still on the farm and still running. 

Now, I collect and repair Power King and other models of Engineering Products tractors.  The current stable contains 8 tractors of various vintage.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:24
Subject: [AT] A CHALLENGE - - Can you name the first three tractors you	drove?
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Lots of great responses here. Now the challenge. I'm recognizing the
> names of all of the guys that have responded so far as 
> "regulars". I'm
> throwing out a challenge to all of the readers that do not normally
> post to jump in and answer this and the earlier question about when
> you started collecting old tractors.
> 
> Happy Holidays...
> 
> -- 
> Have you hugged your horses today?
> 
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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