[AT] the next collector trend?

[Richard Fink Sr]

This link about odd tractors. Has any one ever seen the JD 101 i would say 
mid size. All i have seen is a photo in the calendar from JD would like to 
put an eye ball on one. Article says only 5 were built????????????
R Fink Sr
PA



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From: <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
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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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