Re: Does the old iron still do the job?

Posted by 68 Mag on November 06, 2001 at 19:51:00 from (64.12.107.166):

In Reply to: Does the old iron still do the job? posted by old fashioned farmer on November 05, 2001 at 19:53:33:

Well, my reply isnt as emotional or 'wordy' as the others, but the way I see it, this equipment has lasted for 50 years, mostly doing things it was never meant to do. Oil was changed once a year, and it got gas whenever it ran out in the field. Something broke, grind off the paint, slap a weld on, have food on the table that night. Now, if these wonderful machines lasted 50 years like that, I'm certain with a little care, they'll easily last another 50. I've never known what it was like, to hear the 'pop-pop' of an old Deere, and know it had to 'pop-pop' if your family would eat that night. I've never heard the clanging of a sickle bar, and known that it had to clang if the livestock was to be fed. I've never eaten the dust when working with a baler or old combine. I've never plowed a 30 acre field with a 2 bottom plow. A part of me longs to be able to say that I had, because the times seemed so much simpler then. But another piece of me looks at the new Kubotas and says 'That one looks pretty', or 'That's a rare one.' when looking at a rare antique. But then it hits me. When the farmers of yesteryear bought these rare tractors, they didnt know or care that in 50 years they'd be rare, they just wanted to make sure the family had food to eat. Out of all the tractor's I've seen at shows, my favorite was a 1949 Farmall M. The parade was about to start, and down the road comes an elderly gentleman, on a rusted M with horrible ugly weld all over it, no paint, coated in mud, cracking tires, and a 2 bottom plow on the back. The most beautiful thing I heard that day was when he proudly said 'Yep, I bought her new, and she fed my family.'

But what do I know, I tend to ramble a lot.

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• Re: Re: Does the old iron still do the job? old fashioned farmer 20:01:48 11/06/01 (1)
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