[AT] Farm tractor dealerships

[Cecil Bearden]

   In the early 60's we got into farming.  Our place was located in the 
Washita River Valley of Oklahoma.  Chickasha, OK was the heart of the 
Washita Valley.  Some of the best farmland in the state was in that 
river valley.  Of course, since my Dad's father had lost his life 
savings to another family member when he bought a quarter of land in 
Arkansas that was 2 ft under water when they finally arrived by covered 
wagon, we had to buy some hill land that was very marginal and had been 
taken out of production by the Land Bank in the 50's due to the farm 
land being eroded.  We are still trying to get that 40 acres of that 
land covered in grass or something green.  There was every farm 
equipment manufacturer represented in our area.  Our closest neighbor 
was a Moline man through and through.  Moline and Oliver were separate 
dealers in Chickasha then..  There also was John Deere, Massey, IHC, 
Case, New Idea,  Ford also owned by the ford car dealer, and Allis 
Chalmers.

Recently I bought an old Manure spreader that was a big round cylinder 
that has a pipe with chains welded to it and run by the PTO.  When we 
scraped the crap off of it we found a sticker from Hawkins Implement, 
the Moline dealer in Chickasha.   It brought back memories of plowing an 
80 ace field with a 2-16 trail plow pulled by a Z Moline tractor 
converted to Propane.

Cecil



On 5/21/2019 9:27 AM, Grant Brians wrote:
> n the Salinas Valley, there are New Holland, Caterpillar / Challenger 
> / Massey Ferguson (Agco), John Deere, a new CaseIH dealer of a huge 
> group and that is it. Interestingly the John Deere dealership that was 
> bought by RDO, has competition f