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Posted by AGR538 on November 07, 2001 at 16:12:20 from (65.114.61.226):
I am so glad I found this site. Since I left my family's farm 7 years ago my obsession for tractors has grown to almost unhealthy proportions. I collect old brochures and tractor ads. I attend every antique show I possibly can. Some nights my wife gets worried when I am not home and when she calls my cell phone she finds me sitting in my car at the local dealer lot. I stop on the road and watch tractors working in the field and close my eyes to hear, feel and smell those days gone by when I myself spent countless hours wrestling the steering wheel, working levers, talking on the two-way radio, pumping diesel and cleaning the dust bowl on the filter before nightfall running. In my college fraternity we used to sit up until 4:00 in the morning talking about the day we could farm on our own and what kind of tractors we would buy. Now, I sit around with my fellow office workers and all they want to talk about is golf, the lawnmower they bought at Lowe's or the best place to get their oil changed. My wife says I am crazy. It has affected our marriage. I impulsively bought a '40 H from a man without telling her. (As a result I had to buy the sofa she had been saving for and help paint the living room. I am still trying to decide if the H was worth having to paint the walls...yeah, it was) Is there any therapy? Maybe YTMag needs to start a discussion page titled "Support Group."
SERIOUSLY, I also need to know if there are any aftermarket rims that will fit a Little Genius plow for an H. I pulled the one my dad used out of the fencerow.
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