[AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.

[Ernst Borchert]

In the forties and fifties my father had Farmalls and John Deeres to
cultivate his tomatoes and peppers he grew on his southern California
farm.  In the late forties the Japaneses used the Ford 9N and 2N big
wheel tractors to cultivate with. They looked like stink bugs with the
big diameter tire in the rear. We laughed at them as we did not consider
them real tractors and imagining how hard it was to cultivate with
cultivators in the rear. We thought of them as cheap and a jack of all
trades and master of none.
	Yet that is why we have a 9N and an 8N today, to do the simple
jobs that don't take and power or skill. Being within ten miles of a
Ford N series parts doesn't hurt.
	One observation, you sit on a cultivating tractor, but you sit
in a Ford N series tractor. There is something about looking over the
hood of a Ford N series tractor that is hard to explain. It is a good
feeling. So I went from hate as a kid to love as a senior.

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Subject: Re: [AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.

we  made  the  MISTAKE  of  getting  the  285     over  a   4040 (with  
cab)        boy that would have been  a   cheep  $4000 difference
LOOKING 
BACK.
 
the   285  has   18oo hrs...    has  had  a  fire, 2 broken rock shafts,

all hydralic levers  feeze,   the steering gear break 2 times,   the
PTO  
grind  its teeth off...    the  clutch going  out..    BUT  it ran  the

generator   last week    all week    for  1.5 gal/  hr    (it is a
35/45kw)   
runing   the   grain dryer and bin equipment as well as grampa's   house

 
OH  and Cecil  the  brand NEW  MF"s    still  have that   hydralic 
problem---    the   2007 model 8480 we have  leaks   all over the
place..   the  
mechanic  says  they  are   part of the  Harley Davidson  group...  they
HAVE 
to MARK   THEIR  Territory  OR someone  WILL TAKE IT...  
we currently  have    the  245, 285, 2805, 3545,  and  the 8480.   
WE have   some of  every Make  on the farm   but  a ford  and   we  only

have   a Case  Backhoe--sold the SC yrs ago.
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/20/2009 12:10:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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[AT]  TMCOTKU tractor count is down by  one.


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