Re: Farmall tractor as an investment (please read)

Posted by Steven@nd on March 21, 2002 at 05:45:49 from (12.15.56.78):

In Reply to: Farmall tractor as an investment (please read) posted by KURT on March 21, 2002 at 02:50:00:

I invest in these old machines not for money, but for an investment in my past. My family has farmed for 150+ years and I want to continue that tradition. I have old tractors because I WANT to know what it feels like to put a good day's work on a tractor with a 3 1/2 mph top speed. Some people around me don't understand why I would rather walk through a wheat or corn field than go to the beach on a vacation. Here's why: I MADE that field, I put my soul into it - I had nothing to do with the beach. People think I'm crazy, but I'm happy with what I'm doing and I sleep good at night. To me tractors are my way out of the fast paced life of everyday that I don't like. With my tractors I can take it slow and relax, this is the cheapest "addiction" a person could ever have! I am also going to college to be a teacher, and you can bet that I will have an extensive unit on the industrial revolution, and my students WILL know where milk comes from (other than the grocery store). I think farming is important because, let's face it, farming is EVERYONE'S bread and butter. We farmers feed the world. This hobby is not an investment of cash value for me, it's an investment in my children's future, knowing that they will understand what people went through to make this country so great.

As far as having 100 tractors, I have trouble getting 5 started up every few weeks. And I don't have enough drivers for parades the way it is - well at least not enough people that I trust to drive my babies :o) I am going to try to have a good collection of the letter series and F series Farmalls. Probably a 560 too since Dad had one for quite a while.

Really, if you figure $40 per hour labor rate to restore one of these tractors, you will never come out ahead.

Steven

Follow Ups:

• Re: Re: Farmall tractor as an investment (please read) Jeff 08:37:50 03/21/02 (0)
• Re: Re: Farmall tractor as an investment (please read) KURT 06:07:55 03/21/02 (0)

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