[AT] Tractor upgrade

[Larry Goss]

I hear you loud and clear, Cecil.  Now that I'm in my mid-70's, I'm selling tractors that don't have power steering and user-friendly controls.  It pains me to do it, but it pains me more to put up with skinned knuckles and torn rotator cuffs on my body.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:03
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor upgrade
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> 
> Well after little thought and a lot of expense, I am selling my 
> JX85 
> Case IH.  It is going to a dealer in Chickasha OK, on 
> consignment. 
> After mowing 45 acres of prairie hay on a rough field, I am sick 
> and 
> tired of banging my knees on the gearshifts on each side of 
> me.  My 
> shoulder is nearly out of place from reaching under my butt to 
> find the 
> hydraulic lever, and I am sick of trying to reach the 3pt lever 
> without 
> hitting the hyd levers..  I bent a pto shaft on the little 
> baler because 
> I hit the 3pt lever when shifting the range shifter...  The 
> lit arms 
> dropped and caught the pto shaft when I turned..
> 
> I bought another Belarus, an 8345 with a Koyker loader cab, and 
> air.  It 
> got here just in time for the wet weather we have been 
> having.  The cab 
> is roomy enough that another person can ride in it.  This 
> is good for 
> training my hired hand..   I miss the shuttle 
> gearshift, but the 4wd 
> front ends on both of my Belarus's is great for these soft wet 
> hay 
> fields.  I have heard so many stories about Belarus being 
> the scum of 
> the tractors, I wish I had driven one about 20 years ago, I 
> would have 
> bought a new tractor for the first time in my life.
> 
> I found a 96 Belarus 825 with a MEMO german front loader 85hp 
> 4wd  after 
> I bought my JX85.  I got the Belarus for less than the cost 
> of the front 
> end loader for the JX85.  Then I found a 2000 Belarus 
> 8345  85hp with a 
> Koyker loader for $12,000  By the time I get skid steer 
> attachments for 
> both loaders, I will have $19K in 2 tractors with 4wd, and I had 
> $25K in 
> the JX85...
> 
> These may not be antique, but my antique tractors are just too 
> antique 
> in the 30mph misting rain around here or trying to cut or bale 
> hay in 
> 30mph wind...  Not to mention loading round bales with rat 
> nests in 
> between each bale and then the wind blows all the crap 
> (literally) in 
> your face when you pick up the bale.  The cab has already 
> saved me from 
> respiratory infections with my asthma....
> 
> I just need to find a good small baler and a new holland stackliner..
> 
> Cecil in OKla
> 
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