Re: Is this important to any of you all?

Posted by ScottyNY on March 17, 2002 at 17:02:34 from (128.59.42.15):

In Reply to: Is this important to any of you all? posted by Les...fortunate on March 15, 2002 at 13:41:48:

Les, I think a benchmark like your own age or year of birth is a factor that guides what a lot of us do. Some of the folks will say, often in a discussion of what makes a tractor an antique, that they don't have any tractors younger than they are. While that's true in my case, I, like lots of others, am guided more by nostalgia. I grew up with my grandfather's tractors (and his father's), a Farmall BN, an H and, later, a 400, all narrow fronts. So that's what I wanted. Problem was they were in Ohio (read FLAT) and I'm in the Catskills (read HILLS) and though any H would have been nice, I couldn't find a wide front that I'd dare to work on our place. Did finally happen into a WF SuperC with a 6' sickle bar mower I can use, and bought and rebuilt that. I love it. Later the tractor gods smiled, and I was able to locate and buy the BN my great-grandfather bought new in '47, and that's my current project. In my idle moments, I like to think that an old '55 (my vintage) truck would be nice to have. In the end, though, the letter series are my thing only because that's what I look back to with more than a little affection. For the younger folks, it may be the -00s, -50s, -06s or newer. It's been long enough, that they inspire nostalgia in some of the younger set. We're all motivated by different things, and your idea about having something made the year you were born is a good goal and, from my armchair, pretty neat. As long as we enjoy having and working on them . . . Scotty

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• Re: Re: Is this important to any of you all? Les...Hey Scotty 17:25:04 03/17/02 (1)
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