bobeque
07-31-2000 15:00:09
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Re: N-tractor...good therapy or time machine? in reply to Redbelly1, 07-31-2000 04:41:57
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RedBelly: you've got it all down pat! I don't know anyone who owns a tractor, notably an "N" who wouldn't agree with you. There's something about the sound, the feel, the movement, the ability to take one's tractor and an implement and improve, mold, change,& beautify our life around us. I was raised on a 1948 Farmall Cub which I rode from the time I was 12 until I was 17. It was a small farm in east central Georgia and back then I could not wait to get grown and find my fortune in the big city. I slaved for it for the next 30+ years. Don't know if I ever found it but I do know the day six years ago when I bought my 8n I felt closer to the fortune than I had for the past 35. Since then my fortune comes everytime I crank it, ride it, use it or sometimes just look at it.It puts me back on that rocky, hilly farm where I once had to plow to survive. Now I do it as a luxury. And I find out now that 40 years ago was not all that bad; I wouldn't trade the memories of those days, as bad as they were, for anything. I've just finished a restoration of sorts, mostly painting, but I have enjoyed the last three months of that project more than any in recent memory. To put everything in total perspective: there is no greater pleasure or satisfaction than piddling with, using or just talking to my 8n and that includes riding my HARLEY. Yes, 25 hundred to 3 thousand dollars for an 8n beats any amount to a srink and your "N" promises to sooth your soul for the rest of your life.When me and my "N" are grooving, it is a peace that passeth all understanding!
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