He may have helped and so did others. For a while here it got to be popular to work in town and live in the country. Add in that a lot of the small farms folded in the 80's with the owners passing over the last 30 years. That saw a lot of the BTOs buying ground and putting the farm stead up for sale. House, barn and other out buildings on 5 or 10 acres. Lots of folks who bought those properties brought old tractors. C and B AC's. Ford Ns. A, B and C Farmalls with belly mowers. Lot of those folks are getting older now and the novelty of an old tractor has worn off. Now as they enter retirement they was PS, a loader and a cab! Good by AC, hello Kubota and zero turn. Been seeing a lot of that just in the last 2-3 years. Heck just 10 years ago here a Ford N, OK rubber, running was a 2,000 buck tractor. Not it's more like 900 unless it's something that's parade ready. Add that to the fact that a former farm kid old enough to really remember the "farm crisis" of the 80's would be a least 38 or older. Gotta remember between 1980 and now we lost a lot of farms/farm famlies. That's a lot fewer folks with a connection to these old tractors. And really, just how many, percentage wise of the total US population ever had a connection with a farm other than shoving food in their mouths? In 1980 the population was about 220-240 million people. Less than 4% were farmers.
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