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Congratulations <div><br></div><div>Joe<br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature"><a style="font-size:12px" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661">Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 1:23 AM, Dean Vinson <dean@vinsonfarm.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv4639397137"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv4639397137WordSection1"><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal">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.</p><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal">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!</p><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal">(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. :)</p><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal">Dean Vinson</p><p class="yiv4639397137MsoNormal">Saint Paris, Ohio</p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>AT mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:AT@lists.antique-tractor.com" href="mailto:AT@lists.antique-tractor.com">AT@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com</a><br><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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