[AT] How had the group changed

[Ken Knierim]

I came aboard in the late 90's but I think it might have been after
Forsyth. All I remember for sure was Ray Crispen flaming my introductory
message but I didn't realize it until several others basically told me
privately that he was special. It's always been a great group and about 10
years ago I finally made it to Portland, got my "plow the net" pin and got
to see the spectacular show and met a couple of the Dotson brothers there.
I recall the world traveled Blue Handle Fence Pliers, the updates on the
boxes among other epic escapades (like Cecil and the Firetruck). I found
out that I had a neighbor (Larry Molitor) that lived about 1/4 mile away as
a fellow list member.

I made it to Tulare before that and got to meet Karl Olmstead who "knew a
guy" that got me a "parts" tractor. Turns out it was Case DV which was
somewhat rare and I decided to see if it was salvageable. Well, I backed it
off the trailer, fixed the bad bearing on the bevel shaft and had to look
for other "parts" tractors since that one was suddenly a runner. I did
finally get the DH running but still haven't gotten it painted. My son
likes these old tractors so I'm trying to raise a future "list member". :)

Dean VP visited me and I also had one of the Waugh brothers visit. Every
one I've met from this august list has been great and I would like to meet
more so I guess I need to get back to Portland again. :)

Thanks again Spencer for all your ongoing efforts!

Ken in AZ

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:56 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dave Merchant was an early regular I believe as was Blake Malkamackie
> (sp???) the Cletrac guy. I think I met Don Bowen fairly early at Portland.
> Was the lady in New Zealand Dorothy Parsons? She and a group of ladies she
> was traveling with visited the farm here one time.
> With only a couple of exceptions this list has always been amazing and I
> was honored to have some pictures of a few of my old tractors in one of
> Spencer's books. That involved a very nice visit.
> Every good memory stirs up several more...
> ******
> I think one of the things that hurt us as a group more than about anything
> was when the Portland club quit letting us show all of our tractors all in
> the one busy place and shoved us over "behind the shed" at the far corner
> away from about everything. That was when the show lost much of its magic
> for me...
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> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 10:46 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
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>> It may be hard given the number of people in some of those pictures, but
>> can someone put faces with names in some of the photos?
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>> Mike M
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>> On 12/14/2019 10:33 PM, Richard Walker wrote:
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>> Portland 1998, the year of the boxes.
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>> -  Richard Walker
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