O/T Wife's interest in your tractors

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Does your wife have an interest in your tractors? As for my wife, she could care less. She has no idea what I have. That is not a bad thing for me, because she does her thing, and I don't bother her.She likes to cook. We get along great. I tell her I am going to the barn, which is about a block away where I keep, and work on my stuff. The only time my wife shows up, is if there is an emergency of some kind at home. To day is her day, I am making a place for her to store her canning jars. Stan

 

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massey harris steve

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife learned how to bale driving a Massey Harris 333 when she was growing up. Well when she went thru her middle age crazies, she decided that she had to have one. We now have a 333, not restored yet. We both enjoy going to tractor shows, looking at the tractors,visiting with friends, and making new ones

 

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Doug in IL

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife has little or no interest in my tractors. And that's fine with me. I have little interest in her stuff either.

 

Vito

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife noticies right away when I buy one but last time I sold one it took her a few days to realize it was gone.So far supportive of my hobby as I am down to one antique left and keeping it that way for awhile.
Vito

 

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Steven f/AZ

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife is sometimes interested in how much money we could raise by selling my tractors... does that count?

I have managed to get her on the 544 raking hay a few times, but now that we have the little one to play with/watch/take care of, I doubt that will happen again. At least I have hope that my daughter will someday take an interest.

 

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cadet trooper

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Well, when I brought mine home for the first time she said what are you going to do with that junky thing? Then when she came home one night after work and I had it running with soot all over my face she started crying along with me and we started dancing aroud the garage not a word since.

 

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RobMD

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• Oct 28, 2008

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lol, y'all keepin' things on a happy level, aren't ya?

 

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Wilson

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Mine got real interested in there values when she filled for a divorce

 

Goose

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife cultivated corn with my H before we ever met. Her father owned it then. It's been in the family about 50 years.

She's indifferent to my D19. It's been in the family since 1971.

 

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Hoss In ME

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife didnt really pay too much attention to them till I rebuilt and painted up a MH Pony she didnt even know I had then got her to drive it around the yard.Thought it was cute.Then I told her it was hers.Eyes lit up like a kids on xmas morn.She lets our 2 15 year old grandsons drive it around the yard once in awhile. Hoss

 

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James Howell

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Nancy is interested in all our tractors.

In 1994 we left Dallas, Texas and went to Gosport, Indiana to get "Old John" her dad"s 1948 A.

That was our first JD tractor.

She uses it to spray the hay meadow each year.

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She also uses "Old John" to mow with the Bush Hog 720 finishing mower.

She is using "52" our 1952 A for spraying.

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Nancy has always wanted a Model M tractor to mow the property in Dallas.

Located a 1951 M within 50 miles and bought "Sparky" for her as a 20th anniversary gift.

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She uses "Sparky" to mow the yard at the farm.

To my knowledge she has driven all 8 of the JD tractors.

She is really handy when it takes 2 tractors to get the work done.

Nancy is not afraid of work and doesn't mind getting dirty.



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She will "ferry" tractors back and forth to the hay meadow to save time.

She also goes with me to inspect every tractor or piece of equipment; if it does not meet her approval, then no sale.

In a previous post I stated "When your loved one loves old JD tractors life is good".

 

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DickL

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife does not cooperate with my working on tractors in the winter time at all. We have plenty of room for me to work on them right in front of the fire place where I could stay warm and keep an eye on the Tee Vee. I even told her I would put a tarp down because of the light gray carpet and only paint after she went to bed.
Just can't talk any reason into her at all.
I'll just have to keep asking(begging)untill some day I'll be to old to work on them. That will show her!

 

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kyplowboy

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Been there.

I went 3 months with out seeing mine. I "sold them for cash that I used to pay her bills durring the seperation". Missed them more durring that time than I missed her. Just glad I had a buddy up the road a ways that let me bum one of his so I could get some work done.

The new wife is wonderful.

She dicided we needed a new lawn mower and she wanted a big new scag. Then she figured out for less money we could get a 3600 ford with a finish'n mower, then she could rake hay for me. She thinks my little 960 is "cute" but she don't like to drive it. The 6700 is too tall and she don't like it.

Gotta love a woman who comes up with a reason to buy another tractor.

Dave

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Who cares what the old lady says, just do your thing.

 

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wolfman

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• Oct 28, 2008

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About once a month, my wife asks "so how many tractors do you have now?" And I pretend to be counting for a while. A senior moment for both and we talk of something else.

 

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ScottyHOMeY

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Got to say that I'm blessed in that regard. Can't say that she isn't sometimes a little jealous of my shop time (my own or helon' out the neighbor) but she gets it.

On one level, she knows that when I come through the back door swearin' undr my breath about the old, ahem, hussy, that I haven't had a fallin' out with a girlfriend over on the next road.

On another level, and perhaps more to the point, a neighbor who drives for a living told me about a collection of Farmalls and Internationals (like 30+ of them) parked out along the road about 100 miles east of here. Over supper one night, I happened to mention him telling me about them. Twarn't but a day or two later, Miss Karee asked me if I wanted to go down that weekend to see if we could find them. We made the trip together, and I even got to show off a little and take her to parts of the state she'd never been to before.

And I don't know who smiles wider when I give the grandkids a ride on the BN, her, me, or the kids.

What a girl!

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Heck, she owns the biggest one on the farm.. Inherited it from her dad. Lets me drive it once in a while!

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 28, 2008

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I am the wife. I love OUR tractors. My husband buys them, I strip,sand,and clean them. Then he paints them. Works great for us.

 

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THEkyroastnear

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• Oct 28, 2008

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she has little interest in most anything i am doing.although to my shock she asked recently if i would get a 4-whlr for her to ride with me,just might do it.have five old tractors she doesnt know one from the other

 

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Gary from Muleshoe

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• Oct 28, 2008

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She thinks its an ugly yard ornament.

 

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ericlb

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• Oct 28, 2008

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my wife likes my tractors in fact when i need to do something requiring 2 tractors we flip to see who drives what

 

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Dozer Guy

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• Oct 28, 2008

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My wife does not care what I drag in, just as long as the bills still get paid, food on the table, and clothes on our back. but her interests in them is "how much money a hour I can make the us with the machine" after it is in good working order.. And she loves to drive my TD-9 dozer, cant wait to get her on my D7 cat. and backhoe. Larry

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 28, 2008

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Mine takes great interest in them. Rode all the way to Texas and back to drag home a 430 U last week with her. If I need help working on one, she gets right in and lends a hand or if I need a pull she will run the one in front and get me going. She puts up with dirty, greasy work cloths when I am working on them and gets me my manuals open to the right pages when I got dirty hands. I tell her she will get paid back when she has my estate sale someday.

 

John M

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Nunyafn business

• Oct 29, 2008

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Are you talking about that junk sitting down there in the barn that she tells me I need to sell to get the bills paid?(Which BTW are mine) No she doesnt like me having them, but understands why I have them, and she doesnt complain too much, unless I come home smelling like gas!

 

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Dave 2N

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• Oct 29, 2008

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Sounds like me and Mrs. Dave 2N. She's always been supportive of my interest in tractors, knows a couple of them but is happy that I'm interested in tractors. Will drive one in a parade occsaionally if I plead with her but mostly, likes to be in her (emphasis is on HER) kitchen when she isn't working.

 

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junklover

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• Oct 29, 2008

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Lack of interest and possible agression when I buy one, Lots more interest when I sell one. I keep my hobby self supporting and take no money out of the household budget by occasionally buying and selling. I sold a John Deere LA that I restored last year, I sold it for nearly 3 times what I had in it if you don't count a million dollars worth of labor and on the way home from delivering the tractor I happened to run across her in town and handed her 5 one hundred dollar bills . I also paid some household bills with some of the money. I bought a tractor a while back and she puffed up about it, I told her "you act like I'm going down to the title loan joint and hocking the car to finance this stuff and you know that aint the case,and when I decide I want to sell this last one I bought it'll bring more than I've got in it" She apparently agreed with me because there have been no complaints since.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 29, 2008

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The wife tolerates my love of old iron, I think because it keeps me out of her hair. She bought 2 books by Roger Welch,(I think she bought 'em to learn all excuses for buying ANOTHER tractor, since I have 3 now)and I can relate to him, and his musing as to how the wife puts up with old iron fever.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Oct 29, 2008

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Mrs. Mike is pretty tolerant of my tractors, since she has more horses than I have tractors, and mine don't eat near as much hay over the winter. Only time she got really hot (literally) was when I sent her to rake hay on a JD H, about 3 miles up the road. Road speed on that one is about 4 mph, and the round trip, plus raking for a couple of hours, on a day in the 90's pretty much sent her over the top. She came home, glared at me, went straight to the fridge and downed a beer in one gulp. I decided I had something urgent to do in the barn at that point, and by the time I came in an hour or so later, the storm had pretty much blown over.

 

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dave guest

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• Oct 29, 2008

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Used to operate them but no longer physically possible. She says I should buy something new and expensive but that wouldn't be any fun and I might have to sell some cars and trucks and motorcycles. She still brings me iced tea when I am mowing or plowing, how could I ever complain. If you asked her what kind of tractors I have, she would reply "red ones."

 

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dave guest

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• Oct 29, 2008

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Used to operate them but no longer physically possible. She says I should buy something new and expensive but that wouldn't be any fun and I might have to sell some cars and trucks and motorcycles. She still brings me iced tea when I am mowing or plowing, how could I ever complain. If you asked her what kind of tractors I have, she would reply "red ones."