[AT] Too many tractors

[John Hall]

I think the guys you have coffee with are full of what the cows ate 
yesterday. Personally I think you need another one or two.
I better not comment too much not knowing how well you maintain your 
farm, how many crops you tend, or the other guys situations as well. My 
advice, ignore them.

John Hall


On 3/26/2017 1:35 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> As I mentioned in a previous post, I have four tractors for my 110
> acres. Some guys at the coffee shop have told me I am crazy to have so
> many for so little. I have them for several reasons. First off, they are
> all over 28 years old so its not like I have hundreds of thousands
> invested in them. In fact if I sold them all I would only get around 50
> thousand for them all. Second; as others have mentioned, with my bad
> back and being older, I can no longer keep changing equipment all the
> time. I can put things on a tractor and leave them on for the season
> without changing them every day or so. Third and maybe the most
> important; due to our changing times, no one will help you out anymore.
> If a tractor breaks down you are ------- out of luck. First of all, it
> takes one to two weeks to get anything fixed where when I was younger,
> unless very serious, you had your tractor back in a couple of days. I
> had my IH 856 first for many years before I got the JD 4255. However, I
> still pull the same equipment so if the 4255 should break down the 856
> will still handle the equipment. Same with the IH 574 and the JD 3020;
> both are about the same and can basically be interchanged. You will get
> no help from the dealers, at least not around here. Years ago it was a
> lot different. For 3 generations we have used red equipment until IH
> went out of business. In the late 50's my dad had a IH Super C and
> pulled a IH 45 hay baler and also did custom work with it. One day the
> end of the drawbar broke so he just shortened it a little ( mine you I
> was under 10 at the time so I remember a little of it but was told some
> of it) . What he didn't realize  was that he also shortened the distance
> between the pto shaft. A couple of days later he went through a deep
> furrow and the pto bottomed out and bent the tractor pto shaft inside
> the tractor. Because this was a real odd thing to happen it was going to
> take at least a week to get parts. Without my dad even asking, the
> dealer pulled the complete pto unit out of a brand new tractor and
> installed in my dad's tractor so he could keep baling; at the time that
> was the only tractor my dad owned. Today the chances of this happening
> are several miles south of zero.
>               Greg Hass
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