[AT] Just too gorgeous to pass up

David Bruce davidbruce at yadtel.net
Fri May 14 11:43:04 PDT 2010


And now that Dudley is caring for that tractor so much the better.

David
NW NC

sort of looking for a local to restore my Grandad's Allis D-14

On 5/14/2010 1:59 PM, charliehill wrote:
> Dudley, that makes perfect sense from a logical point of view.  I bet when
> you are ready to sell it he will be willing to buy it back.
>
> Thanks
>
> Charlie
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>>> Dudley,  I find it strange that an active farmer would sell a tractor
>>> that
>>> had spent it's whole life in 3 generations of the farmers family.  Is
>>> there
>>> a story behind that?  Or was the guy just not sentimental about it?
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>> Charlie,
>>
>> The story as I got it -
>>
>> Alan (the farmer) told me that his grandparents bought the place in 1942
>> and that since then there had been at least 35 tractors on that farm.
>> After the war and up until the early sixties he said that Farmall had a
>> dealership within a couple of miles and that quite a few new tractors had
>> come from that dealership.  In the fifties and early sixties he said that
>> vegtables were the principle crop and that as many as five Farmall C/SC's
>> were on the place at one time.  In the late sixties Alan said his dad
>> converted over to a dairy operation (which Alan is continuing) and that
>> all tractor acquisitions since then have been John Deeres.  Incidentally,
>> Alan is not just selling the Super M but also two regular M's, a Super C,
>> and a Farmall 560.
>>
>> So, why is he selling ... doesn't he have any attachment to the old
>> tractors?  That is the last question I asked him before leaving his place
>> last night.  He said that since none of his equipment will hook up to the
>> old tractors (no 3-pt hitch) and that all of it needs at least 100 HP or
>> more to operate, the old tractors just don't fit in anywhere.  And with
>> all his modern tractors/equipment to keep operational he said he doesn't
>> have the extra time to keep the old tractors properly maintained and they
>> are starting to deteriorate.
>>
>> I understood his reasoning ... a super busy practical business man.  Maybe
>> in twenty years he will think otherwise ... but who among us hasn't had
>> that experience -
>>
>> Dudley
>>
>>
>>
>> Dudley,  I find it strange that an active farmer would sell a tractor that
>>      
>>> had spent it's whole life in 3 generations of the farmers family.  Is
>>> there
>>> a story behind that?  Or was the guy just not sentimental about it?
>>>
>>> Charlie Hill
>>>
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