Re: Seeing an old friend again. (Long post)

Posted by Joe Evans on May 10, 2005 at 20:12:21 from (67.129.216.45):

In Reply to: Re: Seeing an old friend again. (Long post) posted by Missouri Boy on May 10, 2005 at 16:13:22:

Wow! Your experience is the best I've ever heard of. Man, don't let that B get away!

I've got a 15 acre place that is half-wooded and is a continual headache keeping it up with trees and brush falling down all the time. I've got a Kubota L275 with a loader that I use to muck around on my place. The Kubota's been with me for 20 years; the loader only two.

Strangely, I don't really feel any attachment to the Kubota although we've been through a lot together. I would unload it in an instant and use the cash to get that Ferguson if it became available. On its best day, the Kubota isn't half the tractor that Workbull is. Having dealt with logger cleanup, storm and ice damage, stumps and the like for the last three years, the Kubota has proved to be mighty light in the butt for that work. That 202 would have been the berries for all that stuff. You can appreciate knowing how many times I've dreamt of sliding open MY barn doors and seeing Dad's Ferguson in MY barn.

Fortunately all my family's on board to get it back so marshalling up some cash at the right time will be a cinch. But stepping back and looking at things objectively, it is very unlikely the Ferguson will become available in my lifetime. That contractor is not a "use-and-discard" type of guy. He's got an MF-35 and a Ford 4000 he uses for maintaining his housing developments, so his tendency is to hang onto usable, good equipment. His one son who I met last Friday is roughly my age and is in the contracting business, too. Chances are he's gonna continue with the business and hang on to his dad's stuff.

Who's to say the current owners don't have as strong or even stronger attachment to that 202 than I do? After all, they've owned it for 36 years. And I'm sure the grandkids in that family have high regard for grandpa's stuff.

Yes, it might become available some day. I'm thinking it will not, but it sure does bring a smile to my face thinking about.

Thanks to all of you for chiming in. Glad you enjoyed the story. I know you would appreciate it--that's why I posted. You folks understand.

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