[AT] One grandson who wants his grandfather's tractors...

[Ben Wagner]

>It can be kind of a sobering moment when you accept that your
>off-spring doesn't have any interest in your treasures...
>The sad thing is that someday they just might. They just don't know it
>yet and might not until they are much older.
>What I wouldn't give to be able to go back and talk with my
>grandparents about family history.
>
>Francis Robinson
>aka "farmer"
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson46176 at gmail.com


Farmer,

That’s so true.  I hope I have learned this early enough, so I have made
sure to hear all the family history my grandparents want to give me.  I have
learned about my great grandparents, life in a simpler time, and the legacy
of men who I would have never known.  Unfortunately, this only fuels my love
of antique tractors.  In the process of recording this wonderful family
history, I have learned all these tractors that are now on the list of those
I want to find and restore.  There’s still time


-My Great-Grandfather ran a husker-shredder with an Oliver 70 for the people
of Staunton VA.  I guess this was like the threshing runs farmers made.  
-He also owned a Farmall A.  There are so many stories to tell about that
A.  
-My Great-Great-Grandfather, other side of the family, converted to tractors
from horses.  Though he loved his McCormick Deering 10-20, he couldn’t part
with one horse, Diamond.  My Grandfather, who now farms on the same land
that he farmed on, remembers the horse being used more than the tractor. 
During World War II, the steel wheels were sold for scrap, and he converted
the tractor to rubber.  It was sold in 1952, and I am trying desperately to
trace this tractor down!
-My Great-Grandfather, his son, owned a Farmall F-20 on steel.  
-My Grandfather owned a Super C, and a Ford 8n

Now I am looking at a list of tractors which I want to find, all six
original beauties, and I wonder if the cash will make it.  Oh well, you can
still dream!

Ben Wagner