[AT] Mowing

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Farmer my dad had that discussion with me when I was in high school. I 
wanted to be a grain farmer (corn, barley, wheat and soybeans). I didn't 
want to mess with tobacco, which is what basically everyone here did back 
then. Dad told me to start figuring it out on paper to see if I thought I 
could make a go of it. Starting with nothing there was no way I could come 
up with the money to make a go of it---we just don't get the yields here 
that the major grain growing regions do. That’s when he told me it was all 
his mother could do in the late 40's and early 50's to buy a Farmall M and 
pull type Allis combine, he didn't see how I could make payments on a 
$85,000 combine like his brother was.

By the way, I asked him about the lawnmower prices yesterday and he said he 
paid $895 for the 110 Deere. I haven't looked online to verify what they 
sold for but he did go on to say it was and would be the only new one he 
bought.


John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 1:41 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Mowing

It wasn't easy back then either John...
:-)  :-)

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:09 AM, <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:

>
> The recent discussion of what mowers cost got me to thinking what some of
> the ones here would cost in todays money.
>
> 1966 Deere 110, thinking dad paid $600 for it, around $4,400 for it today.
> 8hp, 38 inch cut.
>
> 1990 Cadet 2072---about 6K new, $11,00 today. 20 hp, 60 inch
> deck---commercial grade. To put it in perspective it weighs over 1,000
> lbs.,
> so don't mistakenly compare it to some el-cheapo 60" zero turn.
>
> By my figuring, $13,000 is about right for a REAL mower. Not that coming 
> up
> with that kind of cash is easy (for my household anyway).
>
> John Hall
>
>
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Central Indiana USA
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