[AT] Older John Deere tractor

[Greg Hass]

The list comes through again with the info I needed. I would like to 
thank all who replied. At the coffee shop this morning I happened to 
mention the subject and a guy I have known for years said they had one 
when he was a kid. Could have blown me over with a feather. He said they 
had a loader on it and used it to spray with. Said they had a 3 pt. 
sprayer and it covered a whole 8 rows. I took it he was quite young and 
did not actually drive it. I would love to have one and have put it on 
my dream list, as that's all it'll ever be.  After one of the replies I 
did look up some for sale and they ranged from $6500 for a beat up one 
to over $12000 for a decent one. To many $ for me. As for the noise 
factor I go back to the wisdom of this list on Detroit Diesels: 1) You 
either love them or you hate them and 2) The most efficient means know 
to man of turning Diesel fuel into noise.
        As for tractor pulling; I belong to the crowd who quit going 
many years ago when it changed into a professional sport. When it first 
started at our county fair, most of the tractors had been in the fields 
only a few hours earlier. People hung a few weights on them and away 
they would go. In fact a guy from south of town won 3 years in a row 
with his AC XT- 190. Soon  after all of these modified tractors showed 
up and the fun days were over where now it is a rich mans sport. A 
family a couple of miles from me has over one hundred thousand in their 
pulling tractor. Maybe the crowds like this type of pulling, but I grew 
up on the farm and have a different view off what pulling is. My view 
may be old fashioned , but I think I'll stick  with it.
              Greg Hass