[AT] Spam> Fw: New 8N/Now hay, coastal bermuda

[Ralph Goff]

Testing,,, I sent this about 8 hours ago and it has not shown up on the list 
yet. Or did I miss something?
Maybe its snowing so hard here that the internet has slowed beyond its 
normally slow speed limits.

Ralph in Sask.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] New 8N/Now hay, coastal bermuda


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] New 8N/Now hay, coastal bermuda
>
>
>> Don't knock the horse people! I made a pretty good living at the New
>> Holland dealer, selling compact tractors with loaders, three point field
>> mowers, and little Millcreek manure spreaders to folks with 5 acre
>> "farmettes" and two horses. :-) If it weren't for the horse people, I
>> think the dealer would have folded up
>
> And I suspect that type of buyer  is just the target market for the "New 
> 8N" tractor. Not serious farmers but those that have an acreage and need 
> something to cut grass, move dirt, manure, etc, and want to do it 
> themselves with their own tractor. If they can do it with a "new old 
> tractor" that reminds them of the ones they rode on Grandpas farm many 
> years ago, so much the better.
> Regarding hay, I have been selling what I don't need the past few years. A 
> neighbour comes in and cuts, bales, and hauls it home. Big round bales. 
> Pays me a cent a pound for it and we are both happy. Its a mix of alfalfa, 
> slender wheatgrass , and some other variety I can't recall right now. I 
> bale what I need for my own few cattle with the old Holland 847 round 
> baler. It makes smaller round bales that can be handled by a smaller old 
> tractor like my Massey Super 90. I had to give up handling small squares 
> due to back and knee problems a few years ago.
>
> Ralph in Sask.