Nine years ago this same time of year I saw a photo ad for a '47 Minneapolis-Moline UTU. My brother and I had a few Farmalls and John Deeres, but I got the idea I'd like a "Minnie" for something a little different, talked to my younger brother about it and seeing as the Minnie was only about 75 miles away we decided to go have a look. The Minnie was pretty nice, real straight and complete,had PS and live hydraulics, wide rims and 15.5's and started right up and seemed good in every way...needed cleaning and repainting and a little TLC here and there but all in all worth the asking price and it was what we thought we wanted. Little catch, seller had promised to hold it for some guy from Canada to look at, kinda reluctant to make a deal right then. Kept talking and he said he had other tractors at another location for sale too. We went and looked at this batch and there was a JD G that looked pretty decent...(One of my favorite model JD tractors, already had a nice GW) Anyhow I offered to buy both, the Monnie and the Putt putt, and the seller took the offer. The Minnie has been fine, spent some time and money on it but no regrets at all. The G...another story, worst PoC I ever been gypped on anything...paid a good price for it in the first place and have over 6000 bucks in repairs and only God knows how many hours of work getting it "the way it should be". Yeah, it's my "pet tractor" now. Should be, I know it all too well, stem to stern. Lnng story it turns out about that G's illustrious past...worse than this tale of woe....Win Some, Lose Some, I guess......
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