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At how many tractors did you have when the wife said no more or said this first then maybe another? Does she know how many you even have? Did you stop buying? Mine said no more at 8 said we need some other things but dang I found a nice one with a cab I want! Haha
 
(quoted from post at 19:23:38 01/05/16) At how many tractors did you have when the wife said no more or said this first then maybe another? Does she know how many you even have? Did you stop buying? Mine said no more at 8 said we need some other things but dang I found a nice one with a cab I want! Haha
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I used to get that look when I told my wife I was going to pick up a tractor....now not so much. Either she got used to it or she realized it's my hobby and brings in some extra $$$ at times. Fortunately I have been holding at around 90 tractors lately....one in, one out kind of thing.
 
When I got my 560 Cockshutt, then she told me we needed another, so I bought my 800 Case, and she said that was enough. Then the 560 started acting up, and she said sell it, so I listened to her. Sold the Cockshutt, and the same day bought a 830 Case. Then I sold my double bar Kosch mower, and told her I needed another mower, and a buddy had a mounted Kosch mower on a 400 Farmall, for less money, so she said ok to that.
Between the DC 800 830 Cases, and the 400 Farmall, she thinks I have enough.
Oh, and she claims the 830
 
My wife kiddingly said one time "How many tractors does a man need." I told her that was a very complex and intriguing question. It's like asking a woman how many pairs of shoes or shades of lipstick she might need. She said that is truly a political answer. I said that it had nothing to do with politics. She replied that it might not have anything to do with politics but it sure reminded her of the answer you told our daughters when they came home from school on the 2nd of February and asked you if the wood chuck saw his shadow or not and you told them that two of them came out of their hole and one did and one didn't. In all honesty I don't think she ever gave it a thought till the time we had whole collection at the Gilmore Museum show. She had been with me when I either bought each piece or brought them home but didn't put it together till they were all in one place at one time. We laugh about it and I tell her when I check out you will have a bigger auction sale. She says, yep, the obituary will read, memorial will take place at 10:00 A.M. followed by a free lunch at noon and auction will start promptly at two o'clock. She is truly a city lady but has been around farmers long enough to know that you throw out a free lunch and a auction sale they will come out of the woodwork. I keep telling her that you might hang on to those tractors for a while after I am gone, some farmer might just ring you up and ask you to join him and you can drive around and check the crops and stop by the sale barn and see how things are selling.
 
I call BS!!! I have tried pulling 1 loaded American cow truck, with a 895 Veratile and couldn't get enough traction to make it move in sand.
 
A couple of pictures of the Gilmore Show. If you look close you can see her smile standing in front of the "30 series."
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My wife knows after all these years , the difference between an "expense" (what she buys) and an " investment" (what I buy) so we have no quarrel about it. My "investments" end up paying for her "expenses". Only problem is I don't get to keep all of them but I DO get to have some fun with them. Can you tell I have no use for "mutual funds"? Who needs them?
 
Usta be she said "if you get another tractor - I'm getting another dog".

Haven't bought a tractor in a while - BUT I still wear the big pants in this family!
 
I told my wife I needed another tractor so I wouldn't have to change implements so often. She was looking out the window one day and said "I think you need more implements". Got up to 65 tractors, road graders, and bulldozers.

She has never really complained but insists I keep them all on "my side " of the driveway. She says she will call the Sheriff first (to certify my death), then the auctioneer (a friend), then the undertaker.
 
I found a good plan, I store part of them at another farm. And never, ever have them all at the same place at once!
 
You've got to get the wife INVOLVED with your tractors and make them think that they are a valuable, integrated part of your program!
Case in point: Last week my wife not only delivered a crankshaft to the machine shop for me, she also picked it up after the shop had finished grinding it for me.
Now if I can only get her to assemble the whole engine....
 
Same here.

Everything my wife wants to buy is either consumable or depreciable. I don't buy anything I can't get my money back out of someday. (Hopefully a bit more).
 
She will tell me that right before I tell her to pack her bags.....


Actually I've been trying to convince her that I need one for each implement so I'm 15 or 20 tractors short right now.

Rick
 
Tom, you have a very nice collection of 30 series, the implements make the collection spectacular. Thank you for sharing.
 
My wife has no idea whatsoever how many tractors I have, and doesn't care much. My house is about a city block from my tractor, barn area. The wife never goes there, except to drive through to the daughters house. I think I am telling my self, no more tractors. Getting too old. Stan
 
Is your post for REAL or are you trolling here?

If for REAL, I feel sorry for you.
 
Tom, I've seen your tractors at Gilmore. Beautiful!
Maybe next summer we'll get a chance to meet.
 
No you need 2 tractor for each piece of equipment. That way if one breaks down you can unhook and go about what you need to do. That is why when I bale hay I have 2 on balers 2 on cutters and one on the rake with at least one as stand by for the rake. Then one or 2 others just in case and to move the round bales
 
I will start talking about building a old style Harley pan head chopper. Then she tells me to get another old tractor. She enjoys the old iron as much as I do. Life is good. Steve
 
Mine says nothing but I control the number because of space. I don't let any of them set outside.
 
My wife has always been upset when I sell a tractor. She has gone with me on many tractor hauling trips as far as Kansas.
Richard in NW SC
 
shesays that everytime the chek book gets low on funds ,, so, then I trade for hay bales , work , haybines , balers, ect ,,. and always make sure the trade looks a lot like the rest f the herd ,,, and above all never get them all together in one place where she can find them and count them ,,..
 
wisht my wife would understand like that ,, , she just bought a real mink coat (investment ) at estate auction for 280 bux
 
Last fall my wife helped me put a clutch in a Ford 600. She said it was fun, I don't know what she was drinking.
 
I think that there were six loads on a fifty three foot semi trailer to get everything home. Those larger plows seem to take a lot of deck room on a truck. That pull type combine also takes a lot of room. I will
try to post a couple of pictures of that also.
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Thank you to all for your kind complements. It truly has been a labor of love and only by a team effort have I been able to do this. I will be eternally grateful to Dan Yeck and Henry Delbridge for there endless dedication of following through on some of my hair-brained ideas. I know that their were times many wondered "What was he thinking."
 
im one of the lucky ones, my wife has never told me no more, provided i have a use for the tractor, she also drives all but the newest one, so far, in fact she was the one who told me to buy that one lol
 
She didn't have to, in 2008 I got the mail and my 401k and some mutual fund statements all came the same day. After some cussin and going nuts I said screw these financial wiz kids, I'm going to buy another tractor, lets see them steal that, she said go ahead so one thing led to another and I got about 4200 bucks in a tractor I don't need. Don't want another one, seen enough rust and grease.
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That' the best "retirement portfolio" I've seen since Ted Klee's. Some just don't realize one can have fun with their money while it grow.
 
you dont happen to have a better pic of that cat in the background do you? is it a d-2 or a 20
 
forty eight A & B john deeres just left my uncles place on auction all but 3 running on that day. still sheds full of later stuff
 
Randy,

It is funny you would mention Tedd. I bought the single bottom plow that is on the 320 in the above picture from Ted. Another example of some of the finest people on earth involved in this hobby. I don't know where you would meet nicer person.
 
Going to buy a 1955 John Deere 60 tomorrow and have a commitment on buying a Farmall 350 LP. If I make up a good enough excuse like they will work when we have EMP bombs going off from Iran, good tax deduction, or that they are a good investment she gives up the fight. I will quit when I run out of barn and shop spaces or build another barn.
 
Richard G.,

you have been to kansas to pick up tractors? may i ask what kind?

I am kinda hoping you say to pick up a late G from northeast kansas. My email is open lol
 
Every time I buy one. Now she says if one comes home, one has to leave. Was going to look at one tonight, but sold before I got there. Should have saw the look of joy on her face when I told her that!
 
When did my wife say no more tractors? She hasn't. She wants one just for herself, but none of the 4 currently here are "just right". She wants one that's really easy to get on and off of, has power steering, a simple shift pattern, and a cab so the seat never gets wet. I have some ideas, but it's going to take putting aside a good stack of Franklins to get one she (and I as mechanic) will just love, and I'll have sort out and dispose of a heap-o-stuff from the barn to make room, but it'll be well worth it. When mama's happy, maybe I can convince her we need to add onto the barn to make room for more tractors.
 
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