[AT] the next collector trend?

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

I believe I saw an ad in the latest issue from you Larry!

The more I think about it, the more really odd mowers I have seen over the 
years that are probably long since scrapped. One was a Homelite  that could 
have the entire body removed by pulling just a few clip pins. Another was 
actually a TINY tractor designed to go between rows for picking produce.  It 
was not much larger than a kids pedal tractor.

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: Larry Goss
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 10:29 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] the next collector trend?

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

----- Original Message -----
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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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