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HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE?

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COOTER

05-25-2005 09:33:05




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DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET A WIFE AND GRANDMOTHER TO APPRECIATE (OR LIKE) ANTIQUE TRACTORS. MY GRANDFATHER AND I RECENTLY BROUGHT HOME A MINNE AND ALL THEY CAN DO IS FUSS ABOUT IT, I NEED SOME HELP, ANY SUGGESTIONS




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Ann Hanford

05-29-2005 18:38:39




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
Ok ! Here a suggestion guys. Tell her you have all those shoes in the closet that you have to have and I have to have just one more tractor. Share and share alike !



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SUPRDUD

05-31-2005 22:01:30




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 I resemble that! in reply to Ann Hanford, 05-29-2005 18:38:39  
I always tell people that I buy old Dodges "like Women buy shoes and purses."

One or two are plenty, but 40 is MUCH better.

Can't imagine why I am still single???



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Joe in Minnie

05-29-2005 07:06:18




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
THIS IS EASY, JUST LOOK AT WHAT YOUR WIFE REALLY ENJOYS DOING, OR LOVES THE MOST IN HER LIFE THAT'S CONNECTED TO HER ACTIVITIES, THEN TELL HER, "HONEY BUN, IF YOU LEAVE ME ALONG ON WHAT I LOVE TO DO, I'LL LEAVE YOU ALONG ON WHAT YOU WANT TO DO" THAT SHOULD DO IT, IF NOT, GIVE ME A HOLLER, AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE DRASTIC STEP...



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fixerupper

05-29-2005 05:35:54




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
You had just as well relax and enjoy your hobby alone. My wife is knee deep into teaching small children and keeping their ornery parents at bay. I get no response out of her when I show her a tractor I have just spent a zillion hours on to make it run smooth and look pretty. On the other hand, I have no interest in teaching rug rats and no patience with parents who are wrapped around their child"s little finger. We each stay in our own corner of the the ring and we get along fine.

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Roy Suomi

05-27-2005 22:22:34




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
I bought a Dodge Power Wagon WM300. My child bride saw this rusty hulk of a truck being unloaded in front of my pole barn. I pushed it inside and started a painstaking restoration on it. She still doesn't see the humor in it.. Ya Know What? I don't even care..... I use it for " therapy".. I'll go out and beat out a panel and have a "brewski" , beat out another panel and have another " brewski " Works for me.....

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Ken Crisman

05-27-2005 06:51:42




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
My X gave me the choice of her or my toys . I only miss the home cooked meals . Single isn't so bad . Stand your grounds . Remember man was created before woman . Good luck .



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Mo Lean Puller

05-26-2005 21:15:01




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
You guys are missing the boat! I bought our GTC and MY Hubby worked real hard restoring it for ME to pull! Try getting her a small tractor to pull in light classes and see if she becomes interested. Hubby started with a LA Case and then he bought me a VAC and got me hooked; now, two years later between the two of us, we own 19 tractors of different colors and sizes. We just keep looking until we find one that I like. He is sure lucky to have a gal like me....

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Texas Denny

05-26-2005 21:07:35




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
Cooter, I think the grandmother is a lost cause.

My wife asked me to buy a ZTE at an auction we were at. I told her that I didn't want it. She said "But I do." So I bought the ZTE as her tractor. And she wanted a G Allis Chalmers so I bought that as well. Since these early purchases, she doesn't complain about purchases as long as I don't get more than 20. Try finding out if she likes anything. This may be tricky. You can't come right out and say "What do you like?" That is both too obvious and forces her to admit what she doesn't know. Active listening. She's probably already let you know about an interest in something.

This isn't a sure thing. A friend bought and restored a 1956 T-Bird for his wife as a way to get her into the old car scene after she had said she liked it. When she drove it for the first time, she said "It drives like an old car." He was cooked!

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moli

05-26-2005 05:12:47




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
Most women only look 1 or 2 steps ahead, mostly when it involves somthing there not interested in.I have a cockshutt 30 and it needed a clutch,she said"Id like to restore it and pull in the stock class"..So i told her that if thats what you want to do i guess ill have to give it to you (the tractor)..I pulled it apart and put the new clutch in er..and there it sat for the next three weeks taking up space in the shop and i couldnt work on my mm u pullin tractor...I GOT A LITTLE TWISTED...She never came in the shop, not even one time...So i sold it...mind you seemed like a pretty raw thing to do cause she uses it alot..She was mad none the less..till i gave her the money and she went and bought livin groom crap....Got a call from the guy who bought it..( hes also in it knee deep)sayin hes movin outta state...I bought her back for half of what i sold er for.." OH you got my tractor back"..NO,YOULL HAVETO GET YOUR OWN, but you can use it all you want...next time you get madd...get madd over the fryin pan while your cookin me dinner and stop wastin my time..I should have been WORKIN ON MY PULLIN TRACTOR,IF YOU WANTED A NEW LIVINROOM , JUST ASK..@$#@#$%#$@!@@!!!!Like the great Jeff says"I thought loadin the dish washer meant gettin the old lady drunk" Other than a few minor loose screws id kill for er..gotta love em..I got laundry to do..tractors do have there trade offs....

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Tony in Australia

05-25-2005 23:57:33




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
A way I got around it is to encourage her to collect something that interests her, in my case sewing machines, she buys a sewing machine, I buy a tractor. Some old sewing machines cost more than a reasonable U or Z, so it does manage to balance out a bit. Restoration costs are a bit different and you need to make up your own alibi for that one! Tony B



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Kevin Moschenrose

05-25-2005 22:25:37




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
I must brag on my wife she is the greatest. She loves all of my minnies and knows them all by model year nick name as well. She also likes to parade them and even stock pull them too. She loves to run the threshing machines at the shows we go to. There are times I can"t keep her off of it so I can get a chance to drive and she is a city girl. I also have a problem with her too she encourages "me" to buy the tractors from time to time and doesn"t have a problem with it. She is truely the greatest or I am blessed. I could see if she would give you guys some pointers on this.

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Roger in Ks

05-25-2005 22:21:45




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
If all else fails ..... . get a different woman.



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Andy2

05-25-2005 22:12:25




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
I have a girlfriend that doesn't know one MM from the other. The problem is that she can count; I have to keep the total number the same.



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Andy2

05-25-2005 22:13:57




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to Andy2, 05-25-2005 22:12:25  
Forgot to mention my Dad's method. "that one on the trailer?..... .. We've always had that one."



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old

05-25-2005 12:36:47




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
You need to find something they like that will also need to have a tractor to help out with. With me my wife has goats and horses, so I need tractors for hay etc.



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grandfield

05-25-2005 11:57:47




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
ANOTHER approach! My wife LOVES horses, Grand Daughter also! I HAVE to have Minnies to put up hay, haul shi# and occasionally to hook the horse trailer on to train a horse to load easier. There are many ways, taxes would be more than tripled if I didn't raise hay and corn, lose the agricultural zoning. Have a nice picture of a painted up tractor in a family event, wedding, graduation, birthday party, charitable event, hayride for the neighborhood, free entry to the county fair for display person, Good wives are hard to find so if you've got a good one, most of us do, use alittle ingenity to sway her to the Minnie side. Old cars, new ones, for that matter cost lots more and can't do anything but go up and down the road, the tractor can be the topic of discussion for the whole neighborhood or the community. NEVER keep all them in one place, too easy to count! I've gone on too long, John

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Mopower

05-25-2005 10:45:11




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
Both my girlfriend and mother insist one one thing. They would be more acepting of Dad and my tractors if they were painted up nice. You know women like shiny things (just do not tell them what it cost to restore them). I paint nothing till the tractor is mechanically right. That will happen no time soon. Good luck buddy, you'll need it. Get them to drive them once in a while!



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Augie

05-25-2005 10:31:11




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to COOTER, 05-25-2005 09:33:05  
I've been wondering that very same thing for the last 8 years.

Will let you know if I ever get it figured out...



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Jerry Cent. Mi.

05-26-2005 04:57:33




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to Augie, 05-25-2005 10:31:11  
A last resort would be pregancy. It changes a woman outlook permantly. Just my outlook after raising seven rug rats. Now 23 grand children love my old tractors.



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Augie

05-26-2005 10:55:18




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 Re: HOW TO GET A WIFE TO LIKE A MINNIE? in reply to Jerry Cent. Mi., 05-26-2005 04:57:33  
LOL! If my wife comes home pregnated we're gonna have more to fight about than my greasy old tractors. I got snipped 12yrs ago after the 4th kid...



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