[AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.

[Paul Waugh]

For me it is not always about money or best buy ... it is about what I like 
and grew up with ,,, memories are hard to put a price on.

Paul - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.


> Well yes, they cast a very similar shadow.  But the IH was built so much
> better.  I believe you could drop a 424 or 444 IH off the side of the 
> grand
> canyon, and once it hit bottom, you could crank it up and drive it out.
> (Unless it landed in the river in which case you would have to dry it out
> first!)  Then, you got an 8 speed transmission.  And better hydraulics. 
> Etc.
>
> What I have been trying to say is, Ford/ Ferg. might have pioneered the
> small, light weight, low-bodied tractor, but IH, JD, and others "refined"
> it and made it something way more useful. With the other choices on the
> market now, similarly priced, and many now old enough to be called a
> "classic," I just can't understand why somebody would spend the money on
> the Ferd/Furg.
>
> But, to each his own! :)
>
> Al
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Steve W. <falcon at telenet.net>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 10/19/2009 1:57:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.
>>
>> Al Jones wrote:
>> Snip some
>> > I don't know why I don't like the little Ford & Fergies.
>> > Then, there's the story my former IH salesman friend told me (and
>> > took great delight in telling) about his first years selling
>> > Farmalls....he stopped at a farmer's place to demo a Cub and plow,
>> > there was already a Ford N-whatever "making a mess" as he put it.
>> > Said when he got in the field with the Cub and started plowing, it
>> > wasn't long before the Ford salesman loaded up and went back to
>> > town.....
>> >
>> > FIL's tractor has been in his family since new.  I won't put anyone
>> > down who likes/uses the Ford/Ferg's. Bottom line it's one more old
>> > tractor being saved.  For me, it's like Ford/Chevy, Coke/Pepsi,
>> > Sports team/sports team. It's all what you like.
>> >
>> > That said, I'll never have one of those @#(@#$ things under my
>> > shelter if I can help it!
>> >
>>
>> Looking at a 424 it's basically the TO-35 in different clothes! It does
>> sit up a bit higher though...
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve W.
>>
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