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On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 1:23 AM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:

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25 years ago I bought a 1965 gas-burning 3020.  Didn’t know hardly anything about them, or about that series of tractors in general, but it had a shiny coat of paint on it and I was at a place in life where it felt important to buy a tractor.   I sold it a few years later, having learned a few thousand dollars’ worth of lessons about the problems those tractors can have.

  

In recent months I’ve again felt the desire to buy a tractor, and yesterday I became the third owner of this 1967 gas-burning 3020.   It’s got a few issues for me to tinker with, but it’s about as clean and original as one could ask for—with only a little over 3200 hours on the original working tach.   I think and hope I’m a bit wiser of a buyer than I was 25 years ago, but the coming years will tell the tale.   In the meantime, dang, it’s fun to have a new toy!

  

(Or to be precise, to have a new toy picked out and paid for… I still have to arrange for it to be hauled about 200 miles from where it sits to my place.  All things in time.  :)

  

Dean Vinson

Saint Paris, Ohio
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