When I was a used tractor and implement dealer yearssssssss ago I went to a gazillion auctions at Stilesville (Jim Vaughn & Son, Ted Everett with Roll Roberts, Dennis Polk, Art Comer and several others) and some of their favorite sayings about an old tractor when asked its condition.......
"It was bought new"
"It was running when it quit"
"An old farmer right down the road died and said to sell his tractor"
No matter what, when asked, the tractor was alwaysssssssss a "local one" that came from an old farmer right down the road (Even when it had rice tires yeah right lol). Then I had to buy them,,, drag them home and get the gennys to charge (They NEVER did),,fix and clean them up,, try and make a profit, which sometimes I did and sometimes I didnt grrrrrrr HOWEVER, I shouldnt complain, because like in Godfather Two the old man told Michael to not complain because "This is the life you have chosen" i.e. IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY but the more years of experience and knowledge (what models have what problems and what tractors to avoid) the losses came far less often......Yeah it was when I was younger and I had a good time at it....Sometime in the dead of winter at below zero temps me n the "first wife" crawled up in my 1948 Ford F5 snub nose truck with leaks and hardly a heater and drove from Versailles Indiana to Sikeston Missouri to buy an old tractor etc haul it all the way home make a few bucks and thought we on top of the world, life was good.....
Those were pretty good times and I made a living at it but those days are over grrrrrrrr
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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