<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">That person does not ring a bell. There is a local guy that owns a fairly successful nursery in the area, and he had a bunch of John Deeres. A few of his tractors are in one of my books.<div><br></div><div>There are a group of brothers who own a successful oil company and large string of convenient stores. But they are big Farmall collectors. They have very few if any John Deere‘s. One of them lives very close to me and I see his Farmalls out all the time.</div><div><br></div><div>So I am not familiar with the grocery store owner. </div><div><br></div><div>I worked for and bought for Tommy Teague of Salem Leasing. He sold out a few years after I left his employ. I was invited to the auction but I just couldn’t bring myself to go. He had 125-150 John Deere’s; the majority of which were pretty valuable. I think he hung on to a few so only about 100 l-125 were sold. I probably originally bought 30 of them, Bill(the other guy) probably bought 40, and Tom and his brother bought the rest. I think the results of the auction are still out on the Internet somewhere. </div><div><br></div><div>Spencer</div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 23, 2019, at 7:27 PM, John Hall <jtchall@nc.rr.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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That collector wasn't by chance associated with a grocery store
chain was he? There was one not too far from you that supposedly had
a building full of green tractors, or so I was told 25 years ago by
a fellow at the Pfafftown show--said he saw them in person.<br>
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John Hall<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/2019 7:00 PM, Spencer Yost
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I am pretty sure the orchard fenders were not even standard on the
AO(and also an option for the AR at least early on), so I don’t
believe it was fenders.
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<div>The brakes others mentioned I didn’t even recall as
different but sounds likely. I was thinking exhaust but that
seems too inconsequential and so easily modified no one would
use that for definitive ID anyways.</div>
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<div>Inquiring minds want to know! I’m holding off Googling until
I hear the answer.</div>
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<div>When I was buying a lot of John Deere tractors for a
collector I worked for, me and the other guy doing the buying
buying could - between the two of us - tell you 95% of
everything you ever needed to know about John Deere tractors and
their subtle differences, idiosyncrasies and history. Now I
doubt I remember even half of it. Funny how it just slips away
when you stop using it.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interesting tractor which was made
for a very short period of time. Since we are seeing
who can pee the farthest, what was a very desirable
standard feature on the 1936 JD AO that was also
available on the 1936 AR as an option which sometimes
makes them hard to identify correctly ? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dean VP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Snohomish, WA 98290<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> AT
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com"><at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com></a> <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Moe Fretz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com"><at@lists.antique-tractor.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] 1970's farm equipment<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">Some
how we've gone from Antique Tractors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">the
engineering courses we've taken or should have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">To
offshore manufacturing quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">To
the help line accents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">And
now we are into computer IT stuff we know about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">Could
have, would have installed. up grading, what have
you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">Not
much tractor related stuff in the last few days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">My
1936 John Deere AO qualifies as an antique.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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help line available or needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#A64D79">And
you don't need to be an engineer to figure how it
works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:55 AM
ustonThomas Mehrkam <<a href="mailto:tmehrkam@sbcglobal.net" moz-do-not-send="true">tmehrkam@sbcglobal.net</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">In
the 70s we all had to take corporate value
engineering classes. "How to engineer all the value
out." Some people did not have enough sense it
ignore the BS.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6D00F6">On
Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 7:08 AM, Thomas Mehrkam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Windows 10 convinced me it
was time to retire.<br>
<br>
I developed software mainly for Unix and Linux
with some Vax VMS?? DX10 <br>
one of T.Is systems and many real time OS for
Motorola 68000, TI 9900, <br>
Power PC etc.?? Much of the early work in
machine language. With some <br>
Windoze thrown in. XP and 7 was ok.?? Almost
great compared to XP.<br>
<br>
XP convinced me it was time to retire. The worse
of Microsoft's crap <br>
OS's. Even worse than writing assembly and Cobal
for Univac 1108 <br>
systems. :-{?? We built a Seismic Acquisition
system that could record <br>
data from 40,000 stations at a 2MS sample
rate.?? XP brought that to a <br>
stand still. The network stack sucked we went
down to maybe 5,000 <br>
stations. :-{<br>
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On 10/21/2019 11:45 AM, Phil Auten wrote:<br>
> I usually need to write stuff like that
down, and I am/was a <br>
> computer/IT tech. Now, where'd I put my
pencil?<br>
><br>
> I've been out of the computer biz,except
for fixing my own, since 2011 <br>
> and I am amazed how much it has changed
since then. I have two working <br>
> computers, both laptops. The one I am on
now is the newest and it is <br>
> running Vista (yuck). The other one is
about a 2006 model and runs XP. <br>
> That one I need to redo and load Linux so
it will keep up.<br>
><br>
> Phil in TX<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 10/20/2019 11:39 PM, <a href="mailto:deanvp@att.net" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">deanvp@att.net</a>
wrote:<br>
>> James,<br>
>><br>
>> ?? Every time I go shopping at the
local Costco I marvel at how many<br>
>> foreigners we have here in WA?? I'm
sure driven by the High Tech <br>
>> industries<br>
>> like Microsoft and Amazon. It used to
be the Oriental's that were<br>
>> predominate. Now it seems to be East
Indians. I'm sure much of our <br>
>> technical<br>
>> knowledge is eventually ending up back
in India.?? However, that <br>
>> doesn't seem<br>
>> to apply to those who work in the
technical support groups we call <br>
>> for help.<br>
>> I have completely given up on calling
any kind of help line for <br>
>> anything.<br>
>> First because they really don't know
very much and secondly their accent<br>
>> combined with my loss of hearing makes
understanding them almost <br>
>> impossible.<br>
>> I will work Google search until I find
the answer I'm looking for. I <br>
>> just<br>
>> went through that recently.?? Some time
in the past I changed from double<br>
>> click to single click file opening on
my mouse. Long enough ago I had<br>
>> forgotten how I did it.?? For me the
obvious place to look was on the <br>
>> setup<br>
>> of the mouse. Wrong.?? I put up with
the change far too long and <br>
>> finally I<br>
>> had enough.?? But couldn't remember how
to fix it. Google came to the <br>
>> rescue.<br>
>> In Win 10. one has to get into File
Explorer, view, options, change <br>
>> options<br>
>> to get to that setting.?? How in the
hell I found that the first time is<br>
>> beyond me?? But all is now cool
again.???? Simple but frustrating.<br>
>><br>
>> Dean VP<br>
>> Snohomish, WA 98290<br>
>><br>
>> -----Original Message-----<br>
>> From: AT <<a href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>>
On Behalf Of James Peck<br>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 11:18 AM<br>
>> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion
Group <br>
>> <<a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>><br>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] 1970's farm equipment<br>
>><br>
>> I worked for a GM division a little in
the late sixties. The focus <br>
>> then was<br>
>> on making all components so they ended
their life at 10 years. The items<br>
>> that lasted longer were made too well.<br>
>><br>
>> [Henry Miller] The 1970s when
efficiency experts ruled every thing <br>
>> with the<br>
>> bean counters. Cut cost and quality
were number one. The auto world <br>
>> had it<br>
>> worse than most because they suddenly
had to meet emissions rules <br>
>> that they<br>
>> didn't really know how to do and so
rube Goldberg contraptions were <br>
>> designed<br>
>> to that standard with predictable
results.<br>
>><br>
>> Modern just in time is often very
inefficient, but the cost savings<br>
>> elsewhere make it vastly more cost
effective. Consumers have also <br>
>> caught on<br>
>> to the idea that quality is sometimes
worth paying for. Where the above<br>
>> doesn't apply is a race to the bottom
that we can't win. China, like <br>
>> Taiwan<br>
>> and Japan before them is starting to
drop out of the game. Africa is<br>
>> probably next in my opinion: Vietnam
and Pakistan play a bit but they <br>
>> are<br>
>> not large enough and to beat China and
they are not far behind China <br>
>> into<br>
>> getting out of that hole. India could
win for a while, but they have <br>
>> a lot<br>
>> of smart people who know how to make
quality (training on the job in <br>
>> the US<br>
>> or Europe) and would rather skip the
cheap junk period.<br>
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