Re: THEY JUST WONT PART WITH IT !!!

Posted by Christos on July 28, 2005 at 20:05:58 from (130.108.236.239):

In Reply to: THEY JUST WONT PART WITH IT !!! posted by Butch H on July 27, 2005 at 17:50:48:

Dear Butch:

I wanted to drop a line as to some of your comments:

" I get really frustrated when I track down that rare tractor tucked away somewhere and the owner just will not part with it."

My tractor is a MF 135. Not a rare model, but when its a '67 and it only has 179.8 hours on it (actual useage) That makes it more valuable. As for parting, thats up to the owner's discretion.

"Usually "it was grandpa's tractor and we wouldn't have the heart to sell it"."

My tractor used to be my father's who died when I was 9 1/2 my brother 7 3/4 and my sister 2 1/2 years old. It is the sole tangible piece of him that I have left that I take an interest in> That alone makes it priceless to me. Something that, perhaps some don't understand.

"Or, my favorite is:"No,I'm going to get around to restoring it someday..."

Well Butch, on 18 August 1993 that tractor never ran again - on 30 June 2005 my tractor was taken to the mechanics where the problem, of some broken valves was discovered ironically today. Not everyone unfortunatly runs on your timetable - I certainly didn't but I look forward to driving my fully restored MF 135 someday in the near future. Not just in my fields, or down the road, but in the local city fair and my University's Homecoming parade when my Fraternity Chapter is reopened.

"Now you KNOW it's never going to happen and it will just rust away or be sold for scrap..."

I disagree - see above comment.

I hope that when you looked at that tractor you did it with the owners permission. Because if you did that at my house, you would have been arrested and my mother would not be a happy camper. This is a truly fun hobby as nothing quite is like smelling the freshly plowed earth with a tractor you took from being the next Wal-Mart branded frying pan and what makes it even more special is that it has been in your family for a few decades and you have happy and fond memories as a child on your dad's lap harrowing the field with that tractor and your dad letting you steer it. You cannot buy those types of memories. As Harry Ferguson told Henry Ford at the time of the 'handshake agreement' :

"You don't have enough money in the world to buy me out."

Just an honest farmer's opinon -

Christos

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