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

[CEE VILL]

Your mail passed the test, Ralph.  It made it most of the way across the continent.

Charlie V. in /WNY

> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:08:50 -0600
> From: alfg at sasktel.net
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: [AT] Spam> Fw:  New 8N/Now hay, coastal bermuda
> 
> 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. 
> 
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