Posted by JK-NY on December 12, 2019 at 13:03:21 from (174.244.98.23):
JD sellers post about his grandfathers tractor got me to thinking about my grandfather(born in 1904.) He only owned one tractor in his life, a Farmall Cub which was used on a small vegetable and chicken farm. It was used for everything from snow plowing, wood hauling, running a saw and cement mixer on the belt pulley, tillage and cultivating potatoes, cabbage and other vegetables and putting up loose hay. What JD seller reminded me of was how people of that era valued the things they had worked for. Although the tractor looked pretty well used towards the end of my grandfathers ownership, it rarely sat outside overnight and was always well maintained and he constantly was greasing and oiling with an oil can anything that needed it. He also would paint old motor oil on anything that did get left outside. I have known a couple of neighbors of that generation that took similar care of things , although I also have seen the opposite too. I often think when one of these older tractors get a good new home and maybe get restored that it would please that old generation to see something that they valued be valuable to someone else. It’s great when someone like JDseller can own a tractor with family history so the history can be passed on.
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