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Just read the thread "What Has Become of Blue Water Massey". Got me to wondering about some of the "handles" folks use on here. Would be interesting (surely) to know just how one comes up with their handle. On Blue Water for example, what does that have to do with MF? Live near blue water? Enjoy Blue Water? etc. etc.

I'm Texasmark. All one word for ease of typing. I'm a lifelong Texas native and my name is Mark. That seemed to be a reasonable handle for me.

Care to share your's?
 
Oh, forgot something. Originally the 1 wasn't part of my handle. Early on I forgot my password and all that and had to log back in with a new handle to get back in. So the 1 got added.
 
I remember us doing this a couple of years back and it was kind of interesting. There's always new blood to explain, too.

When I was a teenager I got into rebuilding old air cooled VW's - engines and mechanical stuff. Eventually when I got older I taught myself body work so that I could have show cars, cause I sure couldn't afford to have someone else doing it when there were farm expenses. When I started farming full time I realized that I had to learn to be good in mechanical everything, but old air cooled engines remain my first love. In order to farm, though, it's got to be NOTJUSTAIR.

I've still got shelves full of 40 year old parts and four old VW's around here. Two I've had since high school and two I rebuilt and used to show. Now they just get driven to town for parts!
 
My last name is Love. My grandpa was "Grandpa Love" to me. My dad is to my kids. And now I'm at least 3rd generation! Kids come up with so many names now days for grandparents we just kept it simple. Kevin in AL
 

I would have said that it was only a year since we did this last. Anyway, some 15 years ago someone at the county extension office thought that it would be good to have some antique tractors on display for NH day at the Eastern States exposition. One of the ladies called me to see if I could make it happen, so I got a few guys to load em up and take them down there. This fellow came along and was asking a lot of questions and I told him that my 901 Ford was a row crop model. He said "no, that is a show crop" It was soon after that, that I joined YT.
 
Mine should explain itself. I read a post about putting something up to show where your from just before I made it up.
 
I used my first & last initails (spelling ) & WA the state I live in. Just like RBnSC. RB
 
Had to use my first name and where I'm from so I know who I am and where I'm from. At least the sw wi gets me in the right state and the right area of the state. Should be able to find my way home for there.
 
I use my real name because I like to see it on the net.

But honestly I have so many nicknames. My real name I can remember.
 
I'll be six years old in July and I like train cartoons. Ok, truth is, my name is Tom and a pretty lil' waitress calls me Thomas the tank engine. Oh, I'll be sixty in July.
 
I have used Robin Hood since my CB days. Just didn't realize back then that I had nothing in common with Robin. He believed in and practiced the re-distribution of wealth. I say no thank you to the concept. My real name is Tim Hood.
 
I have an Allis Chalmers WD, my name is Tom, and the 4 is because when I registered for some reason I needed another digit or letter and I like no. 4. And the posts are "for" Tom
 
We have a little town near us called Stines corner,,you may have seen pictures I have posted before of the Stines Corner Hotel?I recently lost all my picTures ,or I would post one now,,,lol
 
I worked a crazy shift for many years, 4 am to 4:30 pm. I was in the plant at night, with the 3rd shift spooks. I decided to run with it! 😎
 
I think bluewater is from near Sarnia, Ontario. The bridge that crosses from Michigan over the St. Clair river to Ontario, Canada is called "the Blue Water Bridge" due to the blue color of the water passing under it. The St. Clair river drains lakes Huron, Superior and Michigan...He might also like Massey Harris tractors...
 
Began with Ray back in 1998. Miss. Kim later started to register us all. Another Ray beat me to it. I came up with RayM41 after my 41 Farmall M. It was OK but too many syllables. I settled on Southern Ray.
 
Mine is from the fact that I like Farmalls and when I was a kid looking at the pictures on the tobacco tins at the store, also when it came time for my Dad to plow the garden, He would have me stand on the plow brace so it sunk in at the start, grew up in a area with red clay (tractor was a Farmall A with the mounted plow) Always liked the smell of turned ground, still do!....Craig
 
My initials are BW and a 4520 was the first tractor I rebuilt and repainted. Still have it but only get a few hours a year.
 
my full name is William John Young but my Dad was William so I was John. I stamp my blacksmith work with WJY and my family has been in Texas since it was part of Mexico. SO, wjytexas.
 
My name is Pete, and I'd love to farm full time, but can't afford to, so I do it part time. I've got a few beef animals and put up around 8,000 small squares a year. I don't make any money at it, but I enjoy it, and my son makes a pretty good dollar for a teenager. I commute 90 miles each way to work every day, so it makes for a busy summer for my son and I. He's 16 this year, so hopefully he can pick up more of the load
Pete
 
Did you ever notice that whatever you try to use for a user name, somebody probably already has it?
So, I took my first name, Jim, and last initial, and where I live - Allentown, PA.
I finally found one that was not always already taken.
 
LittleD....... after the 2/3 scale John Deere D...I built in 2001


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I have always been partial to two cylinder John Deere tractors, and I'm not getting any younger....adds up to Old Popper.
 
I use my real name because it helps me be more careful about what I say and it's easy. Not that anyone does on here, but I don't want to hide who I am
 
I love plowing fields and My dad always considered me a good hand on the farm so together I came up with plow hand.
 
(quoted from post at 05:56:04 03/14/17) Just read the thread "What Has Become of Blue Water Massey". Got me to wondering about some of the "handles" folks use on here. Would be interesting (surely) to know just how one comes up with their handle. On Blue Water for example, what does that have to do with MF? Live near blue water? Enjoy Blue Water? etc. etc.

I'm Texasmark. All one word for ease of typing. I'm a lifelong Texas native and my name is Mark. That seemed to be a reasonable handle for me.

Care to share your's?
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My nickname is BJ. Got that one in boot camp long story. My handle is due to what I look forward to every year. Hunting season.

RBHUNTN stands for Rather Be Hunting

Hey a bad day hunting always beats a good day at work.
 
I've always liked the Crazy Horse name. I have a friend who is sort of an amateur George Custer historian and he has mentioned Crazy Horse often over the years. I just liked the handle I guess, would have been a good one back in the days of CB radio .... "Ten Four Crazy Horse, over and out!" Originally back many years, I was Alberta Mike but somehow, someone else stole that name and I couldn't post with it anymore. Not sure if it is available anymore.
 
MY HANDLE WAS "BIRDBRAIN" ON THE C. B. FOR YEARS WHEN DRIVING OVER-THE-ROAD AS A TRUCK DRIVER,IT CAME ACROSS GOOD OVER THE AIR SO I JUST WENT AHEAD AND USED IT ON Y. T. NEVER GOT ANY COMPLAINTS, I NEVER WAS TOO SMART. Pat. P.
 
This is Bret in Western Maryland. When I got married I bought a little Allis Chalmers 5030 and my FIL always joked to my wife about how I seemed 'married to it' rather than her. He was always trying start something. LOL
 
I bought a 9N Ford and needed some help so I just logged in with my stovebolt handle. Dell told me what I needed.to do. I didn't know I would be here every day or maybe I'd be SuperC Md or something more tractory. Still have the truck
 
We live in the CENTre of the township of ASHfield....having a long Dutch last name is not easy to add on a 'dale' or 'view' when using it as a farm name. Ben
 
I'm old and retired but still enjoy making hay for my critters. Hay is the extent of my farming. I used to have a farm employee that instead of saying hello in the morning always said "Hey hey hey" ...thus my handle sort of became "Hay hay hay". Incidentally a 60 year old MF50 is still a great tractor to pull a 50 year old side delivery hay rake.
 
six ford tractors,3 rangers 1 Explorer 1 ford riding mower. And living in Ashville Ohio .Don't get any better for this 69 year old farmboy youall have a very good day .Ithink handle self explanitory
 
I get paid to be an operator of a nuclear power plant, where K effective is a ratio of the neutrons produced by one generation as compared to the neutrons of the previous generation. My last name begins with K. Effective describes my personality, or, at least it did before I found this place. I use the handle on a couple of other message boards, so this keeps everything as simple as possible.
 
My grandfather has called me Keb since the day I was brought home from the hospital. And I live in Greene County, Mississippi. That is where my handle came from.
Kelvin McLeod.
 
it started out trying to register on another site every name i picked was taken, nobody had one like this LOL
 
Galen, same here pretty much. I figure that I am who I am and if I gotta hide that then I must be doing something wrong. That's for me only. If anyone else wants to have fun with a "nickname," more power to em. gm
 
Hey KE ...... you're not radioactive I hope? I have a friend who is long-retired from a plant in California somewhere, does your place
require the special shower-down after leaving work every day (or whatever system is used)?
 
I have no imagination or memory hence the reason I just use my nick name. I have been called Dick for 60 years after I started working away from home at 18.
 
My old boss knew I raised beef cattle. So he called me Kow Farmer one day years ago at work, and it just stuck with me. My first name is Kurt, hence Kow with a K.
Kow Farmer Kurt
 
Every handel i tryed had been taken, but know one ever post with those handels. I have an old farmall 560. So old560 it is.
 
Back a few years growing up on a prairie farm in North Dakota, Dad had a pair of John Deere R's. When everyone else was going to different methods Dad stayed with the R's pulling 4-16's with what we called plow-packer and drill. Had a neighbor nearby that always called us "Plowboys". A lot of good memories, couldn't wait to get home from school to get out on "My Tractor" in the spring during planting season. Last time I was on that setup was 1973... Wish I could do it again. My wife knows the meaning behind Plowboy for me. Haven't shared it with anyone else until here.
 
I have always tried to buy up old equipment to keep it from getting scraped. Especially plows. Wife said I was "addicted to rust". Used that handle for some time, but later changed it to rustyplow for reasons I don't remember.
 
Grew up running Ford tractors and somehow managed not to go broke doing it. Still have an 861 and a 5610 that helped pay for a couple of farms that we still use sitting/cultivating tobacco. Those old Fords were all I could afford back in the day.
 
Hey KE ...... you're not radioactive I hope? I have a friend who is long-retired from a plant in California somewhere, does your place require the special shower-down after leaving work every day (or whatever system is used)?
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Hi, Crazy Horse. Not to hijack the thread, but, no, I'm not radioactive. Things have cleaned up CONSIDERABLY in the industry in the last 20 years, we have many coworkers who get no dose related to their job, and they are not just the office workers. I actually get about a third of what I got routinely just 15 years ago, doing the same jobs. I know of only one person I work with to need a decontamination shower, due to his inexperience and some poor work practices of the guys he was working with. My only work shower was asbestos-related. We do pass through three layers of detectors on the way home, to make sure there is no spread of any bad stuff.
 
Mine came from my buddy in the Navy. I was just a plain farm boy from Iowa and when I got out of AT school and went to my squadron they started calling me big tee--6 ft 1 in--220 lb.---not that big, but it stuck. My old Navy buddies still call me that-----Tee
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"Goose" was my widespread nickname in the Marine Corps. It's an offshoot of my last name. Sometimes Marines I'd known for over a year would ask me what my first name actually was.

I've also used it as a CB handle, among other things. My wife was "Mother Goose" on the CB.
 
Don't post much buy mine is the first part of one of the names that I was called when I was working.
 
That was the way my dad thought. He always told us you were given a name for a reason. Not a nickname. Use your name with pride as you live a good life.
 
Seemed to me most folk who post on YT are from the USA. So I thought I would state who I was , "Bruce " and where I was from, "Canada". Nothing special about being from Canada , just gives folks some ideas of why my perspective may be a bit different . Bruce
 
My family calls me Bernard but I"ve been called Bernie by all but a couple people since high school and I"m in north-central MA.
 
I've wondered ever since I saw your location on the YT members map, how you can possibly live at that location, or did you just drop the marker there?
 
Live in South Dakota. Been a "cable guy" since 92' Guess it could have stood for "Standard Definition."

Mike
 
Gary from Maryland here. My handle is my tractor--a red Massey Ferguson F-40. Best tractor I've ever owned for the simple reason it's the ONLY tractor I've owned. Enjoy the forums, glad to meet you all!
 
My handle comes for a couple places.
#1 when I was young I was thought to keep my mouth shut and ears open so I learned a lot from older people
#2 years ago we had an old pony we called Oldcoal so I took those to things to come up with my handle
 
Made mine up shortly after I bought a basket-case JD B tractor. It was too tall a project for a beginner. Tractor is still a basket-case and I'm still in too deep. Got other projects now including, but not limited to, wife, 2 little kids, beef cattle, 3 other tractors in various states of disrepair, full-time for another farmer and so on.
 
Well, I started here as just "Ray," then another guy showed up with the same name. Told him there wasn't room enough for both of us, suggested he add his last initial and I would do the same. Added (MI) so folks would know know roughly where I am. Wonder what happened to that other guy?
 
Got mine in the Navy. 1973/74
Isolated duty in Sardinia. Once every couple months we would get vert repped by helos.
At the end of the day they would always bring in a few pallets of beer and we layed in the rocks and dirt like dogs drinking hot Carling Black Label from the can.
We all had dog names. I'm still in touch with a couple of those guys. Two are already gone.
 

My user name came from a diesel truck forum I spend time on, I'd swapped the Power Stroke diesels out of my trucks (Destroked) and replaced them with Cummins engines,my present truck is a F-450 (450) thus Destroked 450. It's easier to remember just one user name so whatever site I'm on that's it.
I grew up, own and still live on the farm I was born on, but spent thirty years herding trucks around the country, retired back to full time farming in 08. I raise cattle and hay, the wife raises lots of chickens (96000) for a major brand, I clean up the mess.
I grew up on dads Ford 8N, 850, Dexta and WD Allis, I farm with Fords today, 3000 4000, 4000SU, 4500, 5000, 5600 6610, also have a 881 diesel for parades and antique shows.
 

My user name came from a diesel truck forum I spend time on, I'd swapped the Power Stroke diesels out of my trucks (Destroked) and replaced them with Cummins engines,my present truck is a F-450 (450) thus Destroked 450. It's easier to remember just one user name so whatever site I'm on that's it.
I grew up, own and still live on the farm I was born on, but spent thirty years herding trucks around the country, retired back to full time farming in 08. I raise cattle and hay, the wife raises lots of chickens (96000) for a major brand, I clean up the mess.
I grew up on dads Ford 8N, 850, Dexta and WD Allis, I farm with Fords today, 3000 4000, 4000SU, 4500, 5000, 5600 6610, also have a 881 diesel for parades and antique shows.
 

Forgot to say my name is John, 61 years young last Dec.
Sorry for the double post
When I tried to add my second post it repeated the first one.
 
I want to hear two dogs explain his. Wonder if it's an Indian name..U know they name kids after the first thing see.
 
Headlands were plowed/seeded after field was completed, seems like we would make 4 passes. 4-16's makes that about 22 feet
 
. I am 65 years young, native Texan,pure Cajun on both side of my family. In my younger years I was in Dirt track racing big time. Now I,m a big Nascar fan from way back.My favorite driver was Jeff Gordon # 24. In his heyday every one was chasing the 24 car, My first and last name begins with G. Thus GEE Chase the 24 car.
 
I am a Clover Creek-er From Clover Creek in Pennsylvania. Google it. Clover Creek-ers were known for their strong German work ethic. I'm proud to be one. I grew up on our family farm, also on Clover Creek. No longer on the farm, but I still have tractors, Silver Kings, and an International.
 
i'm from new york. i signed up as ny bill, until my original login here wasn't accepted, even after multiple tries. so i reregistered as formerly ny bill.
 
Mine is simply my last name.
It's what I was called by for years in the Navy, so I used it.
 
WOWWWWWWWWWW! Didn't expect this kind of a turnout. Well folks just for your time, to show you that I appreciate it, I am going to check each and everyone. Thanks and hope it is fun for you as I'm sure it will be for me.

Mark
 
Well I read them all and it was enlightening. Thanks again. I didn't know that this happened just a year ago also. I did miss the event apparently. Some I wanted to answer but didn't in fairness to all.
 
I first used this name to play online euchre. Thought it would let people know something about me right off the bat. My dad always called me Ray because it was easier to holler out than Richard! And it is my middle name. I realize using the word tractor in a name on a tractor forum is profoundly un-creative, but I was already using it elsewhere, so oh well.
 
like most my first name and I have some case tractors along with some IH's, and at the time I was working on a case tractor.
 
Ok, was curious because i knew you didn't own or rent the land at that location and the owners weren't thrilled somebody tagged their land.
 
Me too, besides, I just have never been able to remember code names. The only handles I can still remember was the wife & my CB handles when we were in Alaska back in the 70s, A.T. (Alaska Traveler and Barefoot Buckeye (she was about 7 months preg. with our youngest daughter when she was given the handle) Keith
 
I always like the sound of a 2 cylinder John Deere pulling hard! Around 1960 a neighbour would bring his Thrashing machine / 48" separator and JD"D" over. Some times he would use his WD 9 Super...the John Deere "D" had the most unique sound:

John Deere D
 
I've put it down before but here it is again. I was a tank crew member in the US Army from 74-96. At the time I retired there were few of us that stayed in nearly that long. The young guys called us "old tankers". Now I will add considering that some use their real names that when I first got the internet one of my sons was in college majoring in "computer information systems". He advised me NOT to use my real name so that others couldn't gain it easily and use it for other things. So oldtanker it is.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 19:11:50 03/14/17) I want to hear two dogs explain his. Wonder if it's an Indian name..U know they name kids after the first thing see.
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I've often wondered that too! I hope he replies here.

As for mine--my name is Rich and I've got a yard full of big toys and a basement full of little ones. I used that handle when I joined Stovebolt and kept the same one for every other forum I belong to. As others have said, it's a lot simpler that way!
 
guys at the rural electric where I worked started calling me farmboy after I inherited the farm when my mother passed in 1986 and I decided to farm it myself and let the renter go. 48 is year I was born. Now that I am retired from REC I just farm way out in the country, and loving it, and collecting old farmalls . And a couple of 930 cases as well.
Dick ND
 
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