[AT] OT was runaway cars/"electronic steering"/now inflation and old tractors

[Cecil Bearden]

   If it was not for the retirement, I would not have stayed.  However 
with the situation my Dad got me into, it is not what it should have 
been.  Still have to work for a living to keep him in diapers..  I have 
picked up quite a few of old tractors that I grew up with.  The problem 
is that now when I try to put in a hay crop or bale or really do a job 
with them, they are so inadequate as far as creature comforts, I can't 
stay on them for the 14 hours I used to.  My Dad would stay on a MF35 
from Can to Can't for days on end.  He would handle hay for 14 hours a 
day, but now we see the result of all that hard work.  He is an invalid 
due to having joints replaced.   My problem is that the newer equipment 
created such a massive labor requirement that I am worn out.  In my 
younger years we handled a thousand bales a day into the barn..  I am 
worn out from it.  Wen I try to load hay without a cab, I can't breathe 
for the next 3 days due to the dust and wind. If I could just find a cab 
for the old 930 hand clutch comfort king, I would have my idea of the 
ultimate baling tractor..

I probably will be buried with that old 930, it was the tractor I got to 
drive every summer when we plowed.  It was a neighbor's tractor and we 
got to borrow it and the disk and plow if we (I) plowed his fields.. 
That tractor sat up high compared to the MF35 and the MF50D  and with a 
buggy top sunshade, I thought I had arrived....  That diesel was the 
biggest engine I had ever sat behind.  I ramble..

Cecil inOKla

Best, George wrote:
> I've done pretty well with my job.  I started at $600 a month in 1974.  Still working for the same company, but I've managed to beat the inflation rate by a good amount.
> 
> The bad part is the price of collector tractors the last 10 years or so have shot up so high that I can no longer afford to buy the tractors I owned at one time and then for various reasons sold.  So even though I earn a good wage, early tractors have increased so much that I still can't afford them.
> 
> George
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Cecil Bearden
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:59 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT was runaway cars/now "electronic steering"
> 
> I just ran out that dollartimes formula for the salary I started working 
> for the /State of OK for in 1977.  It was almost exactly what I quit 
> working at in 2007 after 30 years and bonuses etc..  However, I was in a 
> much higher tax bracket etc..  Therefore, I never advanced, in fact, I 
> went backward if not for other side businesses...   For Instance all 
> that money I make farming.....
> 
> Cecil in OKla
> 
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