[AT] is it about farming and tractors and all the good FARM stuff.

[Mark Greer]

When is that Ashland show this summer? I'm next door in Wayne County and my boys might enjoy that.
Mark

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From: Mike 1countryguy <mdo_1 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 06:20:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [AT] is it about farming and tractors and all the good FARM stuff.

Dad put his name on a list for a tractor in 1944.  He was tired of following smelly horse ....!  That was WW2 and restricted steel for anything non military.  He ordered an MM UTU and a Farmall M.  Both were almost 50 hp tractors.  The MM arrived in Apple Creek, Ohio in 1945.  Dad drove it home.   That tractor would have given a Silver King a real race.  The M arrived and became my uncles brand (when he came out of WW2.)   I was told that dad put the tractor in the shed and reverse and when he came home it was outside.  Mom didn t drive tractors!!!  Guess I have been driving tractors since in diapers.[??]  That is where I learned to trust that yellow tractor.  It did not have ac type seat, but u straddled a POWER LIFT.  Lots of brusised on shins and knees.  I still have parts and pieces of 3 UTU MM s and its on my bucket list to have that tractor running.   A local Yesteryears Tractor club will feature the MM line this summer At the Ashland County JVS in Ashland, Ohio.


I have several projects right now in the farm shop.  MM G 950 and a MM G1350.  Will get some pics if u don t mind a Full shop.