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RODGEinIL

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Hey all got just about everything started today, warmer weather got me going. Going about between sheds starting everything does a person good. Comeon tractor pulls and show season! Good day all around, except F20 wouldn't start, probably need to file points. Got ribeyes from Pottstown on the grill with all the fixens, cold Capm Morgan and Coke, going to watch some tube with the significant other tonite. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
 
First tractor I ever bought was an 8N from the guy who did our hay the year we bought our first farm- 1972. I think he still owed money on it, but am still waiting to hear from his creditor. Then got a JD 420 and some equipment out of Idaho for cheap, then a McCormick W4 from a friend of my dad's for next to nothing. My goal was a tractor for each haying implement- Ford on the Massey "Dyna-Balance" sickle bar mower, W4 on the AC PTO rake, and the 420 (with live PTO) on the Ford 250 PTO baler.

One winter day in 1973, I got them all running, and drove them all out of the machine shed so they were sitting next to each other, just purring along. I remember thinking, "I wonder what the poor people are doing today." Never mind that I was actually the poor person, having about $2,500 total in the three of them.

Fast forward nearly 40 years- still have the same wife, and we just celebrated our 40th anniversary in Hawaii. Tractors are long gone, but still know where 2 of them are. Lots of water under the bridge, but still have the memories. That's kind of what its all about, I think.
 
Did some of the same in Wisconsin today too. Poured in some fresh gas and started the H and the MM-U. Just looked at a few others because they are parked in a little tight but the impulse was there. Then went out and tapped a couple maple trees just for the health of it--still over a foot of snow in the woods but it'll be gone by the end of the week if this continues. Lets see, red tractors and dark, chocolate colored, maple syrup--sounds like a valentine to me! Come on, summer....
 
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