OLIVER HERITAGE

Quote from the e-mail:
"As for content in the premier issue:
Feature Tractor will be the 660
Landis Zimmerman has agreed to write a regular column called "Cletrac Facts"
Larry Harsin will have a column called "Ask the Oliver Mechanic" Todd Stockwell from the Indiana State Museum will write a few stories for us about collecting from a museum's perspective
Much more to follow as time passes"

Time to subscribe!

One of the few advantages of being old enough to be some of you whipper-snappers daddy is that you get to experience various organizations and their demises. It goes like this: Discontent builds; something triggers a spat; Management provides disinformation or none; members depart; dues get raised; another spat; more members depart; dues rise again; etc until there is nothing but an unsustainable few.

As I have said before the existing members have one maybe two shots at stopping the distuctive cycle.

Thanks for the word of encouragement.

When will your be sending your subscription in for the newsletter?

As far as the John Deere bunch is concerned, who cares what they think. Who ever said that they were the ones everybody should aspire to be like? Nowhere has it been written that John Deere is the Holy Grail.

Just to add this here and start a little flaming. I am not a member of HPOCA but will probably join the club if for no other reason than the comradery of the memebers. I followed all of the threads and griping about Sherry being fired on the HPOCA board and the one thing I have not seen from EITHER side is an explanation. I heard Terry say that some of it was the same things that would be in a personal file and not public. I heard that Sherry couldn't give the reason's because the club still owed her money and she needed to wait until she got that first. Well that was going on 3 months ago and I still haven't seen any definte reasons.

I did however read quite a few of her magazines and like the way they were done. I will eventually get a subscription to the Oliver Heritage mag as well and HPOCA's. That's just twice as much information for me !!!

Ok I got kinda winded there sorry, But really this is getting fun to watch. Ok I'll sit on the side and watch the flaming now :))

As for John Deere guys, if you have ever farmed with Olivers you learn pretty quick not to care what a John Deere man thinks about tractors/machinery!ALTHOUGH, I've farmed with both, I have my preferences when it comes to older equiptment.I'll take my Oliver 70 out working before I get my John Deere B out of the barn. You do what you want, I really don't care, but don't scruntinize the personal actions of others that really will have no affect on you other than you won't get "the other" Oliver magazine.