Docmirror, you need to get out more, or quit posting one or the other.[/quote]
Why show? He speaks the truth! Heck I like my old tractors but I would never consider taking them to a show. Move them to set them in one spot for a weekend? Not taking them to a parade either. How boring! I COULD BE FISHING/BOATING/SCUBA DIVING or watching paint dry.
I generally try to stay out of these conversations. But look at it this way. There are millions of 50 year old and older American. I bet tractor collectors/enthusiasts make up maybe a whopping 1-2% at best? I it was at 1-2% our old tractors would be worth far more than they are today. Now try to entice a young person into tractor collecting.
Rick[/quote]
Rick, try reading Doc's post again. What I take issue with is his statement that:
"no one actually puts a blade in the ground, and does anything with the tractor. So - it's more about the ownership, restoration, and viewing, not so much the utility. I have only been to a couple of tractor events, and I've never ever seen an old tractor being used as a tractor."
Doc says that we take them to shows but that we DON"T USE THEM. I put some fifty hours a year on one of mine actually doing money making work with it. One of the clubs that I belong to puts on probably four plow days every year. Another one does two. In addition I know from many years participating here at YT that MANY of the regulars are really using their old tractors for productive work on a very regular basis.
Doc says that: "Mowing a field, or furrowing, or haying, or seeding isn't really that much fun." Here he is referring to what we do with them on a regular basis as opposed to while at the shows.
I know for a fact from what I have read here MANY times over the years, that many of us really do consider pretty much any work that we do with our old tractors to be fun. Sure I enjoy flying down a snowmobile trail at 70 MPH to be fun but that does not take away from the enjoyment that I get from my old tractors.
These sort of statements, at least to me, are disturbing. They attack to the core of something that is important to me, and I think that anyone making such statements should be more knowledgeable of his topic than going with what he observed at just attending just two shows
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