Re: Tractor Abuse!

Posted by Aaron Ford on November 09, 2006 at 18:01:27 from (72.84.50.95):

In Reply to: Tractor Abuse! posted by Allan In NE on November 09, 2006 at 05:13:40:

When I got to tearing into my project tractor, I began cussing the former owner.

It was a plain mess. It was run til the pump broke, the front end trashed, the engine destroyed, the drawbar pulled off it, and the brakes were AWOL.

Then I realized, he was a farmer. He used his tool until there was absolutely nothing left. Can I fault him? Absolutely not. He did not have my comfy job, my heated garage, my tools, or my endless clock. He was a farmer. He used it til it was junk, then bought another. He was quite the unconventional engineer, but he apparently was successful at keeping it running.

There are alot of folk that simply cannot afford the tool they need to do the job properly. What can you do but make what you have work. When I was young, our 135 rarely had its front end on the ground, much less pointed in the intended direction of travel. The baler it towed was twice its size. The hillsides were murder. Yet there were mouths to feed and the local economy of the early 80's left little to go around.

I ain't sayin' that your tractor was not abused, but perhaps it's owner was like us, one mistake away from starvation, and one payment behind.

Sorry, just kinda hit home....

Aaron

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