Posted by LenNH on April 28, 2008 at 14:26:28 from (65.96.146.183):
In Reply to: john deere joke posted by matt a on April 25, 2008 at 06:52:10:
Reminds me of a running joke with an uncle, when I was growing up back in the 40s (sometimes I think I may still need to grow up some more). He always bragged up Oliver tractors, and since my father had red stuff, I would always get into a friendly argument with my uncle. It got to the point where I was drawing comic strips showing him in the field on a ratty-looking old Oliver, with steam coming out of the radiator in a jet and blue smoke pouring out of the bent and rusty exhaust pipe. About half way down the furrow, the Oliver would stop and I would come to the rescue on a shiny, new Farmall M. There were a number of cartoons with similar ideas. I have some of them, and still love to look at them to remind me of this friendly give-and-take with a very nice uncle. I don't think there was much difference in the quality of machinery made by the major companies back in the 30s and 40s. One reason IHC had a lock on our area of NJ was that they had dealers no more than 20 miles apart. We could get a part by driving 5 miles to the nearest dealer. The closest John Deere dealer was a good 20 miles away. A 40-mile round-trip over washboard roads and even the twisty blacktops of NJ was enough to keep most farmers from changing colors. Still, there were four farmers from one local family who swore by John Deere tractors. I can still remember them chop-chopping away across the fields. Being a machinery nut since I could walk outside and look at a tractor, I always thought being able to see a spinning flywheel and belt pulley was kinda neat. A hand clutch can be handy, too, sometimes.
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