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RusselAZ · May 27, 2016

Got 4 of one tractor kit for today. Not a Funk but Ford and my kinda tractor!

notjustair · May 28, 2016

I have a picture of my grandmother using theirs - very similar with smaller rear wheels. It wasn't quite as classy - you had to sit on the gas tank as there wasn't a true seat. That must have caused a backache. It was still better than Daisy and Bess (the team of horses) grandpa was using on the other end of the field.

My, how far we have come. Maybe. Grandpa made a living and retired well on two 80's. I'm struggling to stay black on 1000 acres with the cost of inputs. Maybe we aren't that far.

JD Seller · May 28, 2016

Notjustair: I often wonder if we are any better off??? Your Grand father made a higher percentage of the average food dollar than we do today. Modern agriculture has blessed the non farming populace with a CHEAP abundant food supply. The farm population has been decimated and keeps getting hit. Many farming communities are dead. There are no people around to keep them alive. There is going to be large sections of the country that will not have public support services soon. When the current population dies out there are no younger people living there.

A good friend of mine lives in North Dakota. His church has 47 members that are active. He is the youngest at 64 years old. They have not had children in the Sunday schools in over ten years. There are no local jobs other than farming and that is being done with HUGE machines that do not require many people to cover large sections of ground. The town is dead and the last survivors are just hanging on.

Old Scovy · May 28, 2016

By gosh J D I sure like your post. I think you are right as things are not at all like they were. The old F 14 we could fix about any thing on it. The JD A the same. Today I wouldn't be able to start a new JD Combine or any other make ,let alone operate it.I could under stand the old JD 12A combine. But I do wish that we had a computer to help us crank the LUC engine on that thing. But if we had a computer we wouldn't have known how to make that thing work. We didn't get electric until 1945. I got off the farm and still miss some of it. I retired from the Teamsters Union after 50 years in it. I jockeyed farm machinery for a long time on the side. I had roll back trucks and enjoyed that kind of thing. Today I really got the plow in the ground. I am retired and I do nothing just set and do nothing. Life is great because I lived back in the days that you talk about. I also notice that in our Church there are very few kids and a lot of gray or bald heads. LOL Thanks for you post, Jack

David R Inman · May 28, 2016

Thank you for the pics. This is the first kit on a T Ive seen pics of in Az. Third kit overall-I know there is a kit on an A in Jerome and Dad has a kit on an A.

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