[AT] Older John Deere tractor

[Indiana Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Greg Hass <ghass at m3isp.com> wrote:

> 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
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I don't mind guys putting a fortune in something like that except many
times they are the same guys that sit around whining that they can't
possibly survive without government subsidy.
A number of years ago there was a high profile farm foreclosure about 20
miles east of here that made the TV news pretty big. I forget just why it
was so newsy right now. Seems like there was a bit of a standoff of some
sort??? What I do remember is that as they interviewed him and showed shots
from around his farm his family owned (or owed on) stuff like 3 new
snowmobiles and at least 2 quads. About everything they showed was new
stuff including new trucks and I believe a new Caddy.
I always felt that I had to justify about everything I ever bought to
myself. Even if I needed something kind of bad if I didn't have the money
up front I didn't buy anything. I just did what ever I had to to keep the
old stuff going.
As I think back I think FHA had called in his loans because he had not been
paying them for some time and the whole mess just caved in...


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com