[AT] the next collector trend?

[Larry Goss]

Good comments, John. I suspect we are seeing the growth of Lawn and Garden tractor collecting for space considerations, as much as anything.  You don't have to have big tools or a big shop for the work, and some collectors travel to shows with a tractor or two in the bed of their pickup.

Larry

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From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
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Sent: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:26:37 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [AT] the next collector trend?

Recently I subscribed to Lawn and Garden Collector magazine. I have been well pleased with it and would definitely recommend it. It has certainly opened my eyes to the fact that someone besides IH and Deere made some quality lawn mowers. 
As a kid I used to go to the IH dealer where my dad worked on Saturdays and just hang out . In addition to being an IH dealer they also worked on Wisconsin, Kohler, Briggs, and Onan engines. The rule was this, they would work on the engine but nothing else pertaining to the machine it was in unless they were a dealer for that piece of equipment. I got to see some pretty neat mowers, some were commercial and some were el-cheapo homeowner units.
Heckindorn (not sure of the spelling) and Yazoo used Wisconsin engines. Both of those were very unique machines, I wished I had one of the big Heckindorns now !  Occasionally a Power King would show up. One customer had a Montgomery Ward that they kept serviced for years. It was about as cheap of a mower as you could get, but somehow it stayed together for years—they eventually traded it for a Cadet. I remember a Ford that got traded in that stayed in the inventory for close to 3 years before it was sold. Being a dealer, there were too many Cadets to mention. Whenever they traded for a nice older one, it would often be gone within a week. It would sure have been nice to have had the foresight to buy and store up some of the nice original machines as well as some of the oddballs. I’m certain my dad probably thinks the same about some of the steel-wheeled tractors he would see abandoned on some of the farms he used to make deliveries and service calls to.

John Hall
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