Re: What is a good B worth?

Posted by Andy Martin on March 22, 2002 at 20:05:45 from (12.74.160.180):

In Reply to: What is a good B worth? posted by John Nelson on March 22, 2002 at 19:35:57:

B's go cheap. $450 is still a fair price, $1000 is too high most places.

Between brothers either give him a good profit and pay him $550 or let him give it to you for old times' sake.

I don't think the loss of life and limb from using farm children to enable parents to survive was really very great. Certainly there were and still are lots of tragic accidents. My cousin turned an M over driving on the shoulder of a busy highway (got one wheel on a culvert and one off) but he was only nine or ten and a small boy and was only hurt in the seat of the pants later. It would probably have killed a full sized man, but had he been taller he could have seen the culvert! He should have remembered where it was and should have been closer to the Semi's speeding down the highway so he got spanked.

A boy of eight is old enough to properly operate a piece of equipment for working. Play is different. They drive too fast and lose control. But if you remember working a tractor alone the first few times, it was serious business and you were more than a little scared. It was your family's bread and butter and you really don't want to kill the corn instead of cultivate it.

Ever disc on a tractor that took both feet to push in the clutch? With both feet on the clutch it takes both hands on the wheel so you can't shift. Dad puts it in gear for you and you let out the clutch after he gets off to do other work. If he is late coming back you just disc a little more. And you'd better not pee on the operator's platform. If you have to stop you stand on the clutch and cry and scream until you figure out to kill it in gear and walk to get help.

Helps you grow up. Really grow up.

So what's a tractor like you grew up on (literally) worth to a successful man these days. I'd say $100,000 or more. 3 Dodge diesels. 2 Corvettes. A lake cottage.

BUT by the Grace of God they can be had for a pittance.

That's why I have 29. They are too cheap and too good (and I love them too much!).

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