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B BN Farmalls more popular in eastern US?

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LA in Wi.

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I went on a long trip "out east", NY, Mass, NH, VT and Maine. I saw a lot of B Farmalls (a couple BN also) out that way. In the midwest I hardly ever see one. Were they more popular out that way years ago due to maybe smaller farms?
I saw one real good BN in NY...was tempted to buy it but the thought of hauling costs give me the shivers.
 
I know there was a good patch of them in and around Ohio and Kentucky.

I they truly are more common in the east, a lot of it might have to do with smaller farms, and a different mix of rowcrops vs. small grains. A W6 ain't well-suited to cultivatin' beans, and As and Bs would have been more like utility/errand tractors on the farms that needed the big ones to get everything done.
 
Scotty is right on. The transition is the edge of the grasslands. In western Indiana, the numbers begin to fall off pretty radically. The C, super C, became the defacto handy size, with W series, and M/H being the tillage tractors. JimN
 
(quoted from post at 09:09:36 10/21/08) I went on a long trip "out east", NY, Mass, NH, VT and Maine. I saw a lot of B Farmalls (a couple BN also) out that way. In the midwest I hardly ever see one. Were they more popular out that way years ago due to maybe smaller farms?
I saw one real good BN in NY...was tempted to buy it but the thought of hauling costs give me the shivers.
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Yeah, there is quite a few up here along with As and Cs.

My grandfather farmed with an A, BN and a 200 in Mid-Coast Maine.

K
 
There were lots here in IOWA as many farms were 80-160A and they were a fine second tractor pluss price and availability. There were 5 within our neighborhood.
 
K,
Along the coast of Maine, over near Campobello Island, I saw a lineup of Farmalls right next to the hwy. Everything from A to 400, about 10 of them. I had to hit the brakes and see that. They were all sunburned as it looked like they had been there for a couple yrs. It was blueberry country around there.
I sure enjoyed your lobster dinners!
LA in WI
 
K,
Along the coast of Maine, over near Campobello Island, I saw a lineup of Farmalls right next to the hwy. Everything from A to 400, about 10 of them. I had to hit the brakes and see that. They were all sunburned as it looked like they had been there for a couple yrs. It was blueberry country around there.
I sure enjoyed your lobster dinners!
LA in WI
 
In NW Ohio everyone had BN's. Don't see to many B's. Grandpa had a BN. It was the cultivator tractor. The M did most of all the other work.
 
(quoted from post at 08:49:52 10/22/08) K,
Along the coast of Maine, over near Campobello Island, I saw a lineup of Farmalls right next to the hwy. Everything from A to 400, about 10 of them. I had to hit the brakes and see that. They were all sunburned as it looked like they had been there for a couple yrs. It was blueberry country around there.
I sure enjoyed your lobster dinners!
LA in WI
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Well you can't get anymore east then that! The blueberry barons out there are something else. Here in the Mid-Coast we also grow a lot of blueberries, the fields are not as big but they're everywhere.

This past weekend I was able to get lobster for $3.00 a pound. Lots of unhappy fishermen around these days. :?

Did you get up to Northern Maine? That's where the last of the real farm land exists in Maine. Mile after mile of Potato fields, really something to see. Lots of old tractors too, most better then what you see down my way. The dampness of the Maine coast it hard on equipment.

K
 
Yep, that's about 100 miles east of me down in Jonesboro, right on Rte 1, next to UMaine's Blueberry Hill experimental farms. Everything from a Cub up to a SuperM on one end all in order (one of the Bs is old enough that it doesn't have the opening in the torque tube for a starter and has the old lever-style mag kill switch), and a later Cub and 100 to 400 on the other end. I heard about them from a friend of mine and went down on a Sunday mornin' to see 'em all. The folks that own them live in the house right off that little side road that comes out, but weren't home while I was there.

Don't know if he leaves them out in the winter or not. The wonder to me was that nobody has yarned the batteries out of them.
 
I remember some of the bigger tractors that that fella in Jonesboro has still have the MPG dealer decals on the them from the old Maine Potato Growers Co-op on them. Geeze, I wonder what county they came from?
 
(quoted from post at 12:53:29 10/22/08) I remember some of the bigger tractors that that fella in Jonesboro has still have the MPG dealer decals on the them from the old Maine Potato Growers Co-op on them. Geeze, I wonder what county they came from?
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I wonder if other states have a county that doesn't even need a name to identify it, just "The County"? :)

My wife is from Caribou so I get up there a couple of times a year. Wonderful place, I could easily live up there but my wife said she's been there done that. I wonder how long MPG has been dealing in equipment? They have that big place right on RT 1 in Presque Isle.

I've seen you post before and often wondered where in Waldo you are, I'm in Liberty.

K
 
Kopeck and Scotty,
No, I didn"t go up to the potato country. We have a lot of that in the irrigated "Central Sands" area of Wisconsin and I used to know a lot of the growers.
That guy with all those Farmalls had a 400 painted like a 450, I figured that was done before he bought it.
We passed thru on Hwy #3 from Augusta to Belfast; had a great lobster dinner in Belfast at the Weathervane. This ol" midwesterner had to have the waitress show me how to dismantle that monster because it didn"t look like any thing I ever ate before. Delicious.
I was near both Liberty and Frankfort, I should have researched both of you before my trip.
I did get to meet 2 fine fellows and their wives, Hugh MacKay of western Ontario and Murray Elliott in Hallifax, Nova Scotia...good people who appreciate old iron.
I even ate Snow Crab on Prince Edward Island, tasted great but sure was a lot of work to get to the good parts.
LA in WI
 
(quoted from post at 15:07:22 10/22/08) I'm in Frankfort, right where it makes up into a corner with Monroe and Swanville.
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Ah, gotcha.

Some times I forget how big Waldo county is, that and I'm as the southern tip.

K
 
(quoted from post at 06:24:03 10/23/08) Kopeck and Scotty,
No, I didn"t go up to the potato country. We have a lot of that in the irrigated "Central Sands" area of Wisconsin and I used to know a lot of the growers.
That guy with all those Farmalls had a 400 painted like a 450, I figured that was done before he bought it.
We passed thru on Hwy #3 from Augusta to Belfast; had a great lobster dinner in Belfast at the Weathervane. This ol" midwesterner had to have the waitress show me how to dismantle that monster because it didn"t look like any thing I ever ate before. Delicious.
I was near both Liberty and Frankfort, I should have researched both of you before my trip.
I did get to meet 2 fine fellows and their wives, Hugh MacKay of western Ontario and Murray Elliott in Hallifax, Nova Scotia...good people who appreciate old iron.
I even ate Snow Crab on Prince Edward Island, tasted great but sure was a lot of work to get to the good parts.
LA in WI
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If you were on RT3 heading from Augusta you went through Liberty. Our biggest attraction is the State Park on Lake St. George.

Lobsters really are ugly critters aren't they? Once you get the hang of it you can clean one in no time but it's messy. One of those foods that's fun maybe once or twice a year. I just heard on the radio that the fishermen are getting $2.25 this morning, with the price of fuel that's got to be pretty slim profits.

Anyway, happy to hear you enjoyed your time in Maine,

K
 
Same her. My first stint in Maine ('78- '94) I was over in Bucksport and a[part from Bangor, tended to travel mostly on the other side of the Penobscot.

Since comin' back, Waldo county has been kind of an eye-opener for its reach. I read the sheriff's log in the paper not long afer I moved back and remember wonderin' what Waldo was doin' respondin' to calls in Palermo and Unity!
 
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