Posted by IH fan on May 01, 2009 at 04:10:32 from (69.148.251.250):
In Reply to: Ya know i just relized posted by the tractor vet on April 30, 2009 at 13:13:11:
Funny how so many of us have a similar story. Mine starts pretty much the same as James'... grew up on a small Iowa farm, joined the Air Force because at that time we still had the draft and it didn't make sense to get started farming and then get drafted... decided to get that out of the way and then come back to the farm. Well, you know how that goes... got married, had kids, had a young family to support and never got back to a farm. Worked for a hydraulics company for 38 years instead. I did manage to get 2 acres in 1968 so I could sort of justify owning a tractor. Had an Oliver Super 55 for several years until I stupidly opened my mouth and said what it would take to sell it.... guy I worked with thought that was a good deal. Just had (still have) a JD 140-H3 garden tractor for years until we had a terrible ice storm with a lot of tree damage and thought a loader tractor would be just the thing to have. Guy I knew had this IH 240U with a Wagner loader for sale, so that's where I'm at now. Kind of got side-tracked on cleaning up the mess due to by-pass surgery, but trying to get back in the groove this year. Turns out the ice storm was a blessing in disguise because the clean-up work was what made me get checked out before I had "the big one". I was lucky through the years to have the opportunity to operate several different tractors, combines, etc., either for farmer friends or through the company. I worked in the engineering test lab and we always had customer's machinery around... much of which needed field testing.
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