Re: Question: The Correct Police Phenomenon

Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 09, 2006 at 18:31:57 from (64.228.11.116):

In Reply to: Question: The Correct Police Phenomenon posted by David Kronwall on September 09, 2006 at 04:17:02:

David: I see two or three distinct groups of owners of old tractors, and I really have no problem seeing the point of view of each group. The first group are the show group, and most of these guys try to be original. Sometimes that is not always possible. I don't think the chrome and other flashy metal add a lot. There are a few items I will critize and indeed have at a show. I was at a show, guy had a wide front Farmall H with ty rods behind the axle. I could have accepted that had it been IH or Schwartz. However this wide front was fabricated at a local shop using MF 65 spindles, hubs, wheels and complete ty rod assembly. Now this guy has 75 fully restored letter series Farmall tractors. He quite often get paid for displays. I was not the only guy that critized his wide front that day. In my opinion, someone like that, enough money to restore 75 tractors, he best get it right.

By the way, at the time I did not know the id of the fabricator of that wide front. Turns out he was a guy I know very well. One day I walked in his shop. He said, "I understand you guys down in XXXXXX didn't like OOOOO's wide front. It was trucked from the show to my place and I was told to get rid of that wide front. I had told him in the beginning it wouldn't wash." My point is if the guy that strains the budget to restore 2 or 3 tractors gets it 99% correct, there is no excuse for these big money guys.

The other groups I see are pullers, and I understand their agenda. Then we have the guys restoring 60s, 70s and 80s tractors for commercial use, a very good option in my opinion. Then you have young and old like myself, who keep a tractor in top mechanical condition for their own personal use. There is also another group, buy an old tractor, do bare maintainence, run until it quits, sell it and buy another. In my opinion these last groups can do any and every upgrade they deem necessary, to make the tractor suit their use.

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