Re: Hi Guys.

Posted by Jim Jordan on August 27, 2004 at 22:21:22 from (63.164.212.177):

In Reply to: Hi Guys. posted by Jim Jordan on August 26, 2004 at 20:40:16:

I replied to some of your posts and would have replied to them all, but this is taking a lot of time so I am putting the rest into 1 reply. First thanks for the welcome. Second my wife thinks that we would get more use out of a 2 1/2 ton dump than a tractor. I want the tractor now and maby a smaller truck with a dump later. My ford ranger is not enough truck but it gets me by. I have had several people try to tell me that what I need is a Ford 8N, But That is not what I want I have also been told that all I need is a garden tractor, to which Iusually reply that that is what I am looking at, that it is just a large garden tractor. Some people try to tell me that I would be better off with a Kabota or a John Deere. I have seen Kabota"s and am not impressed. The sound of a 2 cylinder Deere working a field is a part of my childhood that will always be with me. But when International Harvester opened the Farmall tractor plant in Rock Island, Illinois in 1924 My grandfather went to work there. In don"t know if he was there when the plant opened or started later. But I know that he worked there. When My father finished High School ib 1928 he went to work there also. I nknow that they were both layed off during the depression and that they were both working there again as machinists to make the H"s and M"s. My grandfather died in February of 1947 at the age of 65. My father became a draftsman and continued working a Farmall until 1970 when he could no longer work. He died in December of 1971 at the age of 61. I took tours of the Rock Island plant several times while I was growing up. I believe that my father wanted me to go to work at for Farmall also, but I didn"t like factories and wanted to do something different. After spending 2 years in Germany working on Fighter aircraft I worked as a auto/truck Mechanic for about 10 years. I worked in Chrysler and Dodge Dealerships until there were more mechanics than there were jobs for them. I had wanted to open a independent garage but by this time our government had regulated automobiles into throw away pieces of plastic that were too expensive and ran bad. I wanted out and that tractor factory started to look pretty good. I decided that when they started hireing again that I was going to get a job there. Tenneco Bought out IH and closed that plant and the government bailed Chrysler out. But by then I was studing electronics. I don"t work as a mechanic any more but my sons do and I have a connection to Farmall tractors that is older than I am.

Jim

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