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

[Cecil Bearden]

Came through here Ralph.

Cecil in OKla

Ralph Goff wrote:
> 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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