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Clarkbug

12-02-2006 08:55:00

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Hey All.

I posted a week or so ago about the potential to buy an M that was for sale locally. I have a verbal agreement to do so, and Ill go seal the deal in a few weeks.

So now of course that I own my first, I found another one up the road a few miles at a dealer. This time its an H, and it looks to be pretty good. I need to get a chance to go see it, but now I have the overwhelming urge to go get that one too... The price is definitely right.

I might end up going from no tractors to two of them in just a few short weeks.

My problem is that I dont think its going to end there... My wallet is going to be thin after the first one, and my savings will feel the dip from the second.

How do you guys stop this need for more old iron?

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PRTZMAN55

12-04-2006 13:01:53

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Clarkbug, 12-02-2006 08:55:00

hey ever since my wife and i wnet together to buy
our 200 8 mos ago i have been looking at every
tractor i see.now she thinks she created a tractor monster. ha im looking at a little a
to add to the farm and i watch rfd tv sundays.
saturday i was in the local agway and they has an ertl 1/16 scale model c on the shelf guess where that is now ?????
once you get it forget it you got it.

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Farmall freak

12-02-2006 14:51:19

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Clarkbug, 12-02-2006 08:55:00

I also found another "TEMPORARY" fix for my addiction it is the fact that nobody around me is selling their tractor. ALTHOUGH one of my friends has a Farmall 230 with a fast hitch that has a sickle bar hooked up to it. It is painted up nice, the only thing keeping me from buying it is my cash shortage and that it is under cover and I have NO ROOM.

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Tim Shaw

12-02-2006 10:20:32

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Clarkbug, 12-02-2006 08:55:00

No cure for Farmallitis, you'll just have to suffer.

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Mike CA

12-02-2006 09:53:40

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Clarkbug, 12-02-2006 08:55:00

From what I have read there are two ways to stop the need for old iron.

The problem stems from the Farmall itself. It is rolling history that is beautiful and powerful. So it's very addictive, and very habit forming. (There have been studies) The two ways to get rid of the addiction:

1) Death

2) Buy a John Deere. You will be so ashamed of yourself you will leave the hobby forever.

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Erik in WI

12-02-2006 14:27:42

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Mike CA, 12-02-2006 09:53:40

Now Mike, I don"t know about the second one. I bought a 4020, and then felt so bad about it, I had to go buy a 826 and a 966 just to make it right!

Erik in WI

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Oldman1151

12-02-2006 14:12:10

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Mike CA, 12-02-2006 09:53:40

I grew up with John Deeres and my Dad still has several old ones. I have recently purchased a 1942 Farmall BN and a 1952 Farmall Cub within a week. The BN was rebuilt when I bought it, real nice tractor. The Cub was also very nice but needed a new clutch which meant splitting the tractor. Being a Cub this was not a big deal, but I would not like doing it on a bigger Farmall Tractor. It is a lot to go through to fix a clutch. I watched my Dad replace a clutch on John Deeres a coulpe times which took about twenty minutes each. I only remember seeing that done twice in the fifty some years I have been around tractors. That is not bad considering that is about all that we used for the heavy work. Our neighbor had Farmalls and it seemed they were splitting them quite often and got pretty good at clutch fixing. I would not be too hard on John Deere Tractors. They are neat old tractors. I hope to get few of them some day. I do like my Farmalls. They are neat little tractors and buying them can be addictive. Growing up with John Deeres I am surprised I found myself buying two Farmalls within a week.

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Clarkbug

12-02-2006 15:35:04

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Oldman1151, 12-02-2006 14:12:10

I wouldnt mind a 4020 either, or even a 3020. They both seem like pretty good solid machines to me. I know they are green, but still. I am more appreciative of the fact that they are reliable old iron than what color is painted on them.

The key is finding one in good shape that isnt going to cost me 10000 or so.

Im just worried that if I get two tractors, the H and the M, that Ill have to start working on the whole set....

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Erik in WI

12-02-2006 17:07:57

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Clarkbug, 12-02-2006 15:35:04

so ya got a hankerin' for a 4020, do ya?

I'll send you an email with some pictures and other vital information of the one I have (Which just happens to be for sale!!)

Erik in WI

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Clarkbug

12-02-2006 17:48:28

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Erik in WI, 12-02-2006 17:07:57

Hey Erik.

Check out your e-mail. I sent you a line over there.

I have always sorta wanted a 4020, just like I have always wanted a 1066. However I really dont have anything for them to do just yet. Eventually Ill work on starting up a hay farm, but until then I guess its just a hobby. Once I get a shed, all bets are off :)

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Janicholson

12-02-2006 09:13:28

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Clarkbug, 12-02-2006 08:55:00

Five conditions for limitations on collecting Red tractors:
1: No more physical room within a five state area to put them.
2: Significant other reached a terminal condition such that ultimatums were delivered in clear terms (and complied with)
3: Financial constraints allowing only a few to be focused on and made proud. (this is as tough as #2)
4: People with too much money keep buying them as they are completed.
5: Death.

JimN

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Clarkbug

12-02-2006 10:23:44

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Janicholson, 12-02-2006 09:13:28

Well, I dont have room in a shed, but I have plenty of lawn that I can park them on. So thats not a problem. Im not married, so I dont have to worry about #2. People may buy them, but I dont see that as stopping the hobby as much as it will encourage it. I really hope that I dont die any time soon, so I guess that means that until I run out of money, Im doomed, huh?

Ill start small with the H and M, but I guess I want to someday move up to the 1066 Turbo and maybe even the 1586 (I think) with the V8. There is just something about having dual chrome stacks that draws my attention to it....

But from what you fellas are telling me, it seems like this addiction is terminal..

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Allan In NE

12-02-2006 11:43:43

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Clarkbug, 12-02-2006 10:23:44

Now you've gone clear off the deep end.

You really want a V8? Think you're smokin' some way bad stuff, there Pard. :>)

Allan

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Clarkbug

12-02-2006 12:11:39

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Allan In NE, 12-02-2006 11:43:43

I wouldnt say its off the deep end as much as drowning in the deep end :)

Come on, there are plenty of uses for an M AND an M, right? And besides, If I dont get it now, what happens down the road when I wish I had bought it...

And the V8 is more for show than go I suppose... I havent heard much about them good or bad, I just know they arent exactly the easiest things to find.

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Alaskan

12-02-2006 09:29:18

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Re: Caught the bug.... in reply to Janicholson, 12-02-2006 09:13:28

Number 2 was the one that did me in. Very humorous.

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