[Farmall] Still in the M business

[Al Jones]

That's great to hear.  I have been told to "never sell a tractor."  If you
do, your tractor will be gone, and before long, so will the money you got
for it.  Then you will have no money, and no tractor!

I went thru a similar experience with my 450.  I really hated to sell it,
but I had a new-to-me 856 taking up a LOT of room.  Plus, the 856 was a
more useful tractor for what I am doing, and I have "too many" projects
already.  The 450 is in a good home now, and it'll get fixed up better than
new a whole lot faster than I'd ever get to it.  Still, I do sort of miss
it.  A spin on the 856 usually cures that....

Al


> [Original Message]
> From: Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
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> Date: 7/18/2009 12:25:16 PM
> Subject: [Farmall] Still in the M business
>
> I'd decided it was time to sell my 1950 Farmall M, which has few
> particularly critical tasks here in the suburbs, since I've completed most
> of the cleanup and minor repairs and general tinkering that I had in mind
> when I bought the tractor three years ago, and because my 17-year-old son
is
> approaching the purchase of his first car and I could use some extra cash
to
> help him get something safer and more reliable than he could otherwise
> afford on his own.
>
> So yesterday I used the tractor to pull out the stump of a dead sassafras
> tree in my back yard (see photo at
> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/M_pulling_stump_Jul09.jpg).  It's not
often
> that an actual use for the tractor comes along, and I'd been not getting
> around to dealing with that dead tree for a while, so after cutting the
> trunk down from about five feet up and digging up and cutting the biggest
> roots, I hooked up with a chain.  In hindsight I wish I'd left a few more
> roots... it would have been more fun if the M had known the stump was back
> there.
>
> With that chore done, I started drafting up the description to put on
eBay,
> and was going to take some more photos today to use in the ad.  Got the
> tractor out this morning and went for one more drive around the
neighborhood
> to get it up to temperature.  Sounded good, felt good, smelled good... so
I
> came home, put the tractor away, put the camera away, and decided to find
> some other way to help my son with a car.  Just too honorable an old
machine
> to sell.
>
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
>
>
>
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