[AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.

[Paul Waugh]

This was my sentiments exactly growing up. They were not considered farm 
tractors. BUT, we have a Jubilee today with factory loader and it is a small 
work horse. So far we have put in 350 ft of driveway, doing the work with 
the Jubilee or by hand.  Got another 450 ft to go :)).  I counted my steps 
getting on yesterday. 1) on sway bar 2) on PTO shaft, 3) left axle housing, 
4) the seat, 5) left floor board, 6) right floorboard, remembering to keep 
foot in FRONT of pedals.  Now my son of 28 can approach from any direction 
and mount the dam thing. Front and rear are no problem for him, from the 
sides, he has to take a good hop to make the top of tire.  Oh to be young 
again.  Anyway, for the money it earns its keep, not sure too many IH in 
those years are quite as much a collector item.  The IH 300 U  is a darn 
good tractor also.

Paul - N. Webster, IN
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> 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.