[AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.

[charliehill]

Yes I remember when my feet were fast and I could dance my way onto our AC 
on a dead run.  My dad just looked at me with disgusted amazement.  Now I 
understand why.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] TMCOTKU tractor count is down by one.


> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ernst Borchert" <eb3 at shelby.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:58 AM
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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.
>
>
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