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Ok, I guess I couldn't really narrow it down to three. So, The year is late August 1965, I am checking out the new 1966 M670 Super row crop diesels on the showroom at the dealer. The growing season has been really good this year here in the midwest. I believe the corn looks like it'll make 120 bushels to the acre. Maybe on the next stop to the elevator when I get supplement I"ll ask how much a new wire Behlen 1100 bushel corn crib would be..... to store that extra corn crop. The salesman and I start to talk, I check out a 670 with narrow front. I don't need the rear fenders or a 3 point hitch, so he starts figuring up... My dealer also sells New Idea, so I check out the new mounted superpickers while I am there. Before the day is over, I have spoke for a new 670 diesel with a mounted 319 New Idea picker with a 322 12 roll bed. The dealer mounts it and gets it adjusted and ready to take to the field. On to 1969, the old GB that I have been doing some heavy tillage with is starting to get tired.I don't think it will make it another season, good time to trade, while she's still running I tell myself. The local dealers are having a spring farm-o-rama day over at a guy's place about three miles from my farm. I get a flyer on it in the mail. Deere, Massey, IH, MM, and AC will be there from the local dealers. It turns out to be a nice spring day when I attend on March 25. I pull in the lane. Oh my gosh,there must be three hundred pickup trucks parked in the field!!! 4020s, 1206s, 656s, 190 XTs, 1100s, G1000s are all plowing in adjacent sod field. I see back smoke a'rolling. I walk to where some of my neighbors are watching and talk to them. Along the edge of the field is a truck with a smaller Minnie on it. I watch them as they unload it. G900, Looks like one of those big 1000s I've seen around. They hook it to a semi-mtd. 5 bottom plow. This I gotta see. The demonstrator drops the plow in the ground and pours the coal to it and I watch it as it rumbles by. It never even groans down a bit in the black soil! What a hoss, I think. I walk to the end and take a ride on one round. Dealer crosses the headland at the end, drops the plow and gets her rolling. He jumps out of the seat and over to the right fender (I'm sitting on the left) and says here take over. I jump in the seat and away I take the bull by the horns. A couple rounds and I'm sold.....
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