[AT] O T calf in car

[Gene Dotson]

    Yes Spencer, we still have all these memories in our minds. What a good 
part of our heritage has been left behind.

    The old machinery was a part of my youthful years as that was all we 
could afford. Was fortunate we were all good mechanics. We would take 
someone's cast off and make do for our needs. Started with bicycles, 
sometimes from the local dump and maybe make a usable one from 2 or 3 
castoffs. Next it was motorcycles and then to cars. Yes cars, that was the 
golden years. Seems the Dotson boys had the cars to beat, both on the street 
and drag strip. Finally got into tractor pulling. We always had something 
different from the running crowd but always made a good showing. Then the 
flying, at least for me. Were many good times with my airplanes. Now into 
the tractor show scene. Guess I really got involved with that.

    Most memorable is the many friends I have amassed during these years and 
all these activities.

    Thanks again Spencer for bringing us all together!!!

                        Gene

    P.S. Have a director's meeting Sunday. Anyone have anything I need to 
bring before the board?

                        G.D.





-----Original Message----- 
From: Spencer Yost
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 8:18 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] O T calf in car

These stories bring to light the difference in age between me and some of 
you guys. In my teenage years in the 1970s especially; even a little bit in 
my early 20s, I was occasionally hired in razing crews.  We were the ones 
that tore down the barns on the old family farms that were no longer big 
enough to be profitable and salvaged the wood.  I must have torn down 
several barns.  Some were razed for development, some seem to have been 
razed for no reason whatsoever.  Some were an obstacle to making a field 
bigger for the bigger equipment.

A small part of my love for old equipment comes from seeing the old tractors 
and implements that had been pulled out of the barn to make way for us. They 
would be sitting in the rain, in the field, waiting for the scrap man.

I missed those good times in these stories by maybe just a decade or two. 
But believe me, I did understand even at that young age that we were 
throwing the baby out with the bathwater in some  respects. That probably is 
part of the reason why I started ATIS.

Rambling mode off....

Spencer
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