[AT] AT Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9
Mike Meulenberg
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Mon May 27 11:16:34 PDT 2024
Hi Eddie, for the record, I cannot send or receive most messages from ATIS.
Mike M
On 5/27/2024 1:40 PM, Eddie Mccullough wrote:
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> 1. Nice outcome for the 620 (Dean Vinson)
> 2. Re: [External] Nice outcome for the 620 (Gunnells, Brad R)
> 3. Re: Nice outcome for the 620 (Spencer Yost)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:44:41 -0400
> From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> To: "'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group'"
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> Subject: [AT] Nice outcome for the 620
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> In the department of things working out alright, here's a nice
> story. I've
> mentioned recently that I've been thinking of selling my John
> Deere 620, and
> yesterday decided to go ahead and list it for sale on Facebook
> Marketplace.
> A guy contacted me pretty much right away, and we arranged for him
> to come
> see it this morning. He and his dad came out, liked the tractor,
> and we
> settled the deal and they took it home. Nice folks, farm quite a
> bit of
> land a little ways north of here, and have quite a few antique
> tractors for
> fun.
>
>
>
> As they were leaving the young guy mentioned that every summer
> they partner
> with a local tractor dealership to host an antique tractor show,
> and invited
> me to come see the 620 again at this year's show. Sounds good to
> me. I
> just now tried a Google search to see if I could find any
> information about
> the show, and found this video on YouTube:
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX1oAk6fxm8
>
>
>
> What they didn't know at the time was that a barn fire a year
> later would
> result in the loss of their 620 and several of their other old
> tractors. A
> couple of years having now passed since the fire, the young guy
> decided to
> look for a good 620 to replace the one they'd lost, in memory of his
> grandfather. and I came along at the right time.
>
>
>
> So I'm down to three tractors now, but feel especially good about
> the 620
> having gone to a good home. It's a solid old beast and served me
> well for
> the 10 years I owned it, and the original owner for the 56 years
> before
> that. Before putting it up for sale I lined it up with the other
> tractors
> just for fun.
>
>
>
> Dean Vinson
>
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
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> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:15:35 +0000
> From: "Gunnells, Brad R" <brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [AT] [External] Nice outcome for the 620
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> Sounds like it went to a nice home. Hard to believe it?s been 10
> years since you bought that. I recall you talking about looking at
> it. Didn?t seem all that long ago you were driving that M down
> your residential street to get fuel. Somewhere I still have a
> picture you shared of it sitting in the snow. That should have
> been on a calendar.
>
> Brad
>
> From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> on behalf of Dean
> Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> Date: Monday, April 29, 2024 at 11:45?AM
> To: 'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group'
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: [External] [AT] Nice outcome for the 620
>
> In the department of things working out alright, here's a nice
> story. I?ve mentioned recently that I?ve been thinking of selling
> my John Deere 620, and yesterday decided to go ahead and list it
> for sale on Facebook Marketplace. A guy contacted me pretty much
> right away, and we arranged for him to come see it this morning.
> He and his dad came out, liked the tractor, and we settled the
> deal and they took it home. Nice folks, farm quite a bit of land
> a little ways north of here, and have quite a few antique tractors
> for fun.
>
>
>
> As they were leaving the young guy mentioned that every summer
> they partner with a local tractor dealership to host an antique
> tractor show, and invited me to come see the 620 again at this
> year?s show. Sounds good to me. I just now tried a Google search
> to see if I could find any information about the show, and found
> this video on YouTube:
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX1oAk6fxm8
>
>
>
> What they didn?t know at the time was that a barn fire a year
> later would result in the loss of their 620 and several of their
> other old tractors. A couple of years having now passed since the
> fire, the young guy decided to look for a good 620 to replace the
> one they?d lost, in memory of his grandfather? and I came along at
> the right time.
>
>
>
> So I?m down to three tractors now, but feel especially good about
> the 620 having gone to a good home. It?s a solid old beast and
> served me well for the 10 years I owned it, and the original owner
> for the 56 years before that. Before putting it up for sale I
> lined it up with the other tractors just for fun.
>
>
>
> Dean Vinson
>
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:20:30 -0400
> From: Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com>
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Nice outcome for the 620
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> Sounds like a great ending to an ownership journey all the way around.
>
> I sold my Allis C, John Deere B and the 430 for much of the same
> reasons. One of the wisdoms that come with age is the wisdom of
> understanding hobbies have a scale and scope and you have to
> right-size that. Gone are the days of ?no such thing as too many
> tractors?.
>
> I still have eleven engines that I have to maintain and fix on two
> tractors plus mowers/bobcat/sawmill/hit-n-miss plus several PTO
> powered implements, several unpowered implements and an old truck
> restoration. I have all the maintenance and repair/restore
> opportunities I care to have any more.
>
> Having said that I also understand that I?m never too old to fall
> in love at first sight with a tractor. So one may follow me home
> yet before I head off into the great beyond.
>
> Spencer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> > On Apr 29, 2024, at 12:46 PM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > In the department of things working out alright, here's a nice
> story. I?ve mentioned recently that I?ve been thinking of selling
> my John Deere 620, and yesterday decided to go ahead and list it
> for sale on Facebook Marketplace. A guy contacted me pretty much
> right away, and we arranged for him to come see it this morning.
> He and his dad came out, liked the tractor, and we settled the
> deal and they took it home. Nice folks, farm quite a bit of land
> a little ways north of here, and have quite a few antique tractors
> for fun.
> >
> > As they were leaving the young guy mentioned that every summer
> they partner with a local tractor dealership to host an antique
> tractor show, and invited me to come see the 620 again at this
> year?s show. Sounds good to me. I just now tried a Google search
> to see if I could find any information about the show, and found
> this video on YouTube:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX1oAk6fxm8
> >
> > What they didn?t know at the time was that a barn fire a year
> later would result in the loss of their 620 and several of their
> other old tractors. A couple of years having now passed since the
> fire, the young guy decided to look for a good 620 to replace the
> one they?d lost, in memory of his grandfather? and I came along at
> the right time.
> >
> > So I?m down to three tractors now, but feel especially good
> about the 620 having gone to a good home. It?s a solid old beast
> and served me well for the 10 years I owned it, and the original
> owner for the 56 years before that. Before putting it up for sale
> I lined it up with the other tractors just for fun.
> >
> > Dean Vinson
> > Saint Paris, Ohio
> >
> > <image003.jpg>
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