Old tractors

JimC

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My father in law has done almost the same thing - his newest piece of equipment is about my age. I think the combine was a dollar. But he has units he can cannibalize (usually procured for 100 bucks or some low price at a sale) and with lots of shared parts he can keep the operation running quite well with minimal purchases of new parts etc. it’s really interesting to hear stories of rebuilding this engine three times or schlepping a replacement cylinder bore out to do a field repair. It seems like the only way to do things if you hope to have a few dollars left over at the end of the year.
 
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RBBailey

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That's cool.

A house down the rural road where I spent jr high and high school always had an old tractor out front for sale. Usually in spotless condition. We asked about it one day, and found out that the old man who lived and died there and then gave the property to his daughter's family had 23 tractors from the 1920s to the 1940s, they were all restored, and they were all in the basement of the house and barn. They would bring one out at a time and sell it every six months to a year.

Have you guys followed the whole issue that a lot of farmers are having these days with the legal traps they get into when they try to fix their own equipment? Crazy stupid stuff.
 

hillstrubl

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Have you guys followed the whole issue that a lot of farmers are having these days with the legal traps they get into when they try to fix their own equipment? Crazy stupid stuff.
Yes insane, and its progressively leaking into passenger car ownership as well.

 

erover82

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Kind of reminds me of our old tractors.

Purchased for pennies on the dollar, his fleet is a lesson in savings and an acknowledgement of the harsh realities of new equipment costs

Except we're paying dollars on the penny and acknowledging the harsh realities of vehicles which rapidly entered classic car status.
 
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