inherited tractors

Randy

Bottom line is: kids couldn't care less how long it took to gather this stuff up, only how quick they can dump it.

Why anybody, regardless of their financial means, would want to gather up a bunch of anything, is beyond me.

I'm glad I poked a nerve....I meant too. Obviously made you flinch..LOL!

I have one old tractor that I cultivate the garden with....a '53 Super A. I would gladly trade it for a modern equivalent..like say a 1980 something JD 900 HC, an IH 274 or a Kubota 245 offset. But, for no more than I use it...the expense of a newer machine is a poor investment.

I also have a new 4 wd JD 65 horse tractor...it's used for serious work. I'm not into pretending it's 1947 again.

So you volunteer to be a brakeman for some kind of play railroad. What a genuine waste of good time. I was an engineer for 27 years with CSX, I hated the job and they PAID me to do it. There isn't any toy trains on my place, pictures of locomotives on the walls, or brass engine bells displayed. Only thing from the RR I want, is that direct deposit once a month.

No, I'm not bitter or quarrelsome. I just have never understood why people want or need 5 old tractors for parade queens. I don't understand why my father in his advancing years has 3 airplanes and can't even pass the physical any longer. He gets off paying insurance on them and watching them sit there in the 60' x 120' hanger and TALKING about flying. What a waste of money. Why not sell those fabric covered skeletons and buy tickets on a 767 and do some real flying, actually going somewhere?

Some people's places look like scrap yards with derelicts parked all over. They aren't ever going to fix all that junk up...but they just have to possess it. Gives them a warm and fuzzy feeling just to know they have a 1937 Allis transmission laying out there in the weeds somewhere...just in case they ever need one. Reminds of me going into a guys garage once and here sat this old engine on a stand.....where it had obviously been for 3 decades. The owner says, You know what THAT IS!? Knowing he thought I was going to be impressed, I said....I don't give a $hit. Why THAT is a PACKARD V-8! I said....so, do you have a Packard car to put it in? Well, no..... I'm just keeping it! Yeah..that's a good reason to have a Packard V8 engine! Same as having a barn full of obsolete tractors or a hangar full of old airplanes and a garage full of cars.

I'd say life well get better but with you probably not.

Have a bad day. Jim

I don't understand how someone can spend all day, every day wandering around a golf course. Even worse is sitting there watching it on tv.

But they chose it as a hobby, so it's NONE OF MY DAMM BUSINESS.

It's something you will maybe learn after you get out of high school.

I am glad, you are glad! That means you must be having a happy day. Congratulations.

I got out of HS 32 years ago, but I don't collect old desks or chalk boards.

Maybe I ought to take up collecting burrs. I can always put them under your saddle and make good use of them.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I " gather up all this old junk" for MY personal satisfaction as well. I don't give a damm who has to deal with it after I'm gone. Maybe in my will I'll bequeath it all to my cat just to pisss them off even further.

I'll quarantee one thing. That is that after I'm dead they will wish they wouldn't have annoyed me so much about my " junk".

Remember, revenge is a dish best served cold.