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Glenn Warner

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Hi guys (and gals if any on here )

I've been visiting this site now for several months, and though I can remember some of your handles, maybe you could share real name and where you are from. Just thought I could get a
better bond with you if that is possible or makes any sense. It just seems like some of you
may have never met in person but are like true blue buddies on here. I wouldn't mind joining the club. LOL. Glenn
 
Name's Wayne and I'm a heavy equipment mechanic from Concord, NC. Been on here for about 8 years or so and ought to know 90% of the guys on here by now, but unfortunately I've got to be honest and say I have always been horrible with names, so pretty much all I know are their handles.
 
If you read my posts, you pretty much know my name and where I'm from.

You may have also picked up that I'm a machinist by trade and also a welder. My current project is repairing the manure spreader. Last year I put a new hitch on it, several years ago we replaced the side steel, this year I'm doing the front and tail gate.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
My name is Maxwell D Pratt. I live about 3 miles south of Huntintton West By God Vigrinia. retired Service tech.
 
Retired underground miner(over 40 yrs) Almost 67 yrs old. Still go to work UG when I feel like it. I know so many people that all it takes is a phone call.
 
Hi name is Gary. magpie is my black powder camp name, from central Ne. Spent 30 years at a factory when laid off . Now a JD tech in training, and a small farmer.
 
Handle says it all, lol!

I used to be a mechanic for a New Holland dealership, but got fed up with it and started trucking and logging a couple years ago. Been hanging around YTMag for around 10 years, but for the most part I'm not very vocal.
 
My name is Bill. Worked 37 years as a journeyman machine repairman machinist. Soon be 71 years old and have a small shop at my home.Have restored several JD tractors and I do mean restored not just cleaned up and painted.
 
I'm Lowell Hilton. I live about halfway between Asheboro and Seagrove, North Carolina. Spent 32 years at Sears catalog order plant in Greensboro. Twenty two of that as a small engine tech. Spent the last 10 years of my working career behind the parts counter at a Ford dealership. At 73 I'm pretty much retired except for puttering around the house and tinkering with an old truck or other piece of machinery.
 
My name Is Tom. I'm fond of IH tractors. I've been a heavy equipment mechanic for 25 yrs which has morphed into mostly forklifts. I live in Mich. I'm seriously thinking of seeking help for my "hoarding". (I thought we were supposed to tell the group why we're here)
 
I'll fess up my real name is Jim used to be Jim H SW PA but somehow one time I tried to log in I had problems .... I hate my real middle name so I chose part of it Roy and I'm gettin Old, Hence the handle "Old Roy" .. Live close to Apollo Pa.
 
Clint is the actual name. At 74, I thought the "ole" or old is fitting. Now retired from corn and soybean farming in the upper cornbelt.
Central OK has better winters. clint
 
That's my name. Retired from phone company 10 years ago as a maintenance splicer, and now farm 300 acres in Maryland about halfway between Baltimore and York, Pa., and run an Angus cow-calf operation.
 
Stan is my real name. 37Chief is my handle here. I have a 1937 Indian Chief motorcycle. I retaired from the Unisys computor co, (Burroughs) after 36 years, as a machinery repairman, and did proto type machining for new products. (not computors)I have a mowing and discing business here in Southere Calif, 30 mi north of San Diego. I am a lot like my Dad I always need to be working, or doing something. Stan
 
KC is my real name a country friend made the jump from Kay Cee to Hay Seed, it stuck.
Been on here for about eight years, I"m young at 55, self employed handyman. Spent 18 years in the car business and 14 in printing.
 
I'm a newly retired engineer, worked for over 3 decades in various specialties at a major aerospace company in the Seattle area. I live 3 miles from the nearest town, about 20 miles east of Tacoma, WA, have one running tractor (an IH 300U) and a few nonrunning project tractors. Two daughters, 4 grandchildren.
 
Name is Dave... The 2 is cause someone already took the user name dave and dave1...From SE OH living/working in Germany...
Breed Quarter Horses and Australian Sheperds as a hobby (don't actually do it myself, just manage/supervise them doing it to each other..... :roll:

Pretty much live my favorite Dr Seuss quote
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Tends to upset the thinskinned sometimes....... But I's pretty harmless...

Dave
 
Last name is Fuller and I own Farmalls. I am 21 and starting a small farm with my dad. Home town is New Florence, PA but go to college at California Univ. of PA. So I basically live there now.
 
I'm a construction superintendent that misses my years on the farm.

Of course, we were still moldboard plowing then and had never heard of a hay tedder. It's changed a lot in 30 years.

I don't post too often but I read through this and the Massey forum pretty regular, when it's in your blood it never goes away.
 
Josh Blake I live about 5 miles south of Troy NC. I have a F-12 and other IH tractors . I work for NCDot and have a small produce farm. I'm 35.
 
Hi,my real name is Charles,I work in a cabinet shop I have a couple of olivers I live near madison wisconsin
 
Steve. I've been working nuclear power here in central Virginia for almost 34 years. I've been preparing 75 acres near Lexington Virginia for retirement in a couple of years. Two JDs, 1 CAT, and 2 Border Collies.
 
(quoted from post at 06:37:48 04/28/12) probably one of the youngest responders, as it says names Thomas, live east of edmonton AB, currently going to college up north of Grande Prairie AB, at the age of 20
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ey Thomas, I aint to far away from ya, Im just from Valleyview.
 
Name is Gary, Police officer for 22 years and part time hay and row crop in N Central Florida. Can't wait to retire and get out of this hot box and grow pumpkins to keep my sanity.
 
I'm Greg, and I am a tractor addict! Grandpa always farmed, and I had thought I could run buffalo on his land when he quit, but my uncle got to buy the land first! I live in Omaha, work as a trim carpenter.
 
I'm near Dale Wi. Have 4 Olivers, 1 Hart-Parr, 2 Allis, 1 Ford, 1 McCormick and, 1 JD. Miss farming. Been a Farm Equip mechanic and truck driver most of my life. I'm now 59 and work for Michels Power. We put up power lines.
 
Play mostly with 50 eras Fords.Buy ,sell and part to feed the ones I keep.Once in a while a stray pops in but it doesn't stay long.I am a carpenter by trade.


Vito
 
My handle is my name
I,ve lived in Omaha Ne for my entire 55 years
Spent 19 years as a machine operator fabricator for the railroad industry , 12 years managing a tree service and now work for the city in traffic management for the past 5 years. Like most folks on YT I have a fond liking for tractors
Tony
 
Many faces can be seen at the Florida Flywheelers and various Expo's.
When meeting people from this site in person they rarely look like themselves.
 
(quoted from post at 06:31:26 04/28/12) Many faces can be seen at the Florida Flywheelers and various Expo's.
When meeting people from this site in person they rarely look like themselves.
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Dam.... you even wake up with a bad attitude....................
 
My name is Steven and I am from Shelley Idaho. I am 52 and work for a lumber yard. I like to play with my tractors (mf50 and mf65). I also play with my MIL's wd and wd45.
This is a neat place where you can learn a lot about anything you want and even some that you don't want. Welcome aboard and have a good time.


Steven
 
Name is Rick, retired Army, played....ops served on tanks from 74-96....inherited the family farm (family farm in the sense that dad retired from the Army in 72 and got this place), 200 acres in west Mn. Trying to get the farm going again.......old tractor, well I love em but I work em too....just can't justify new stuff yet.

Also into home brewing (the wife wines), SCUBA, hunting, fishing and firarms.

Rick
 
My name is Guy, got my ID from years ago when I drove OTR. "Two steps from my office to my bedroom." Grew up on a cotton farm near Lubbock, Tx and Dad farmed with IH, so I'm kinda partial to red, but then again I like just about all kinds of tractors.
My son and I have a '50 Ford 8N, '72 IH 664 and a '69 F-100 SWB that we tinker with.
 
My name is Harold Durham and I live in MD. I'm retired from the Federal Government. Its called Aberdeen Proving Ground and I went there shortly after high school in 1951. In 1953 I was drafted
into the Army and I got married. I was rehired as a returning vet in 1955.

We tested all the vehicles used over the years by the Army. If the Army used it we tested it except for clothing. We ran drawbar and cooling tests. We also installed the instrumentation on each vehicle before testing. I worked there 41 years and that doesn't include my Army service. I use to buy used Troy Bilt tillers that needed work. I think I had over 30 of them over the years. I still have one that was in sad shape, but with a new 10hp engine, tines and seals it runs like new. I also bought a few farm tractors. A Farmall A, Super C and a Cub last year. Still married to the same woman and we have a daughter that turns 58 next month and she was born at Ft Bragg NC when I was with 82nd Airborne. Hal
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Was not the message intended.
Meeting people in person for the first time that
we have conversed with for years. Often surprises
both parties.
 
Hi Glenn, my handle is my name, Ralph Bauer. Am German,43, live in southwestern Oklahoma, work as a court-connected, multi-county, volunteers staffed mediation program director since '98. Like anything open station, especially JD new generation, and old combines, self-propelled and pull type. Live on 81 acres in hay production. Wife and I got three dogs and one cat, too. Welcome to the "club"!
 
Hi,
Like you I have not been a member here for very long. As my handle suggests my name is Ray and I live over the pond in South East England. I was was sent a link to here by a recent addition to our family who lives in Ohio and knows of my interest in all things related to farm machinery. I started my work career with an MF dealership and recenty retired from a long engineering career in the Port of Dover.
Ray
 
Hey Vito you wouldn't have a good 1949 cab for a F-3,would you. I live in Minnesota and we have some old ford pickups we are trying to fix up. The F-1 needs a lot of work,but is running.The F-2 the kids are making into a mud truck, The F-3 frame and engine are done. Just looking for a good cab. Dale
 
(quoted from post at 06:47:05 04/28/12) Was not the message intended.
Meeting people in person for the first time that
we have conversed with for years. Often surprises
both parties.
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Good comeback!! There's hope for ya yet.....

Wasn't years, but I talked to a girl once for a few weeks on the phone before actually meeting her...........

That sure was a long evening :roll: and I didn't even know what a cellphone or pager was so had no choice but stick it out........

Never made that mistake again......
 
Real name is Nate, 30, teach in North Central WI, work for a couple large farmers after school and in summer, and my buddy and I are in the toddler stages of our getting our own operation going. Born and raised on a farm, so its a constant itch that I scratch.
 
My handle is my (first) name. I live in The Netherlands, relatively close to Ray UK (below) ;-)
I was born and raised on a farm. Having an MSc in Engineering Mechanics, I"ve had several engineering and project management jobs. Since 1999 working for Det Norske Veritas KEMA, doing assessment and certification work on the railway system, mainly rolling stock and automatic train protection and signalling systems.
I"ve been taken from the farm, but the farm hasn"t been taken out of me.
 
Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Anthony. Born and raised just outside North Adams, MI. Spent most of my life here, other than 3 years in the Chickasha/Anadarko, OK area when I was in my early 20's. Currently just outside Moscow, MI.

Grew up on 20 acres, loved baling hay. Had a few cows and hogs. My dad had two Farmall H's and two Farmall M's when I was a kid, so I'm partial to Farmall/International. I have a JD single bottom, hand trip, steel wheel plow that used to be dad's. I have pictures of him using it back in '71 about a year before I was born.

Dad's a whole 'nother story. He was born in Germany in 1938, remembers planes making bombing runs over the house in WWII while he played in the yard with his donkey. His dad had several ships but they were all lost during the war. Anyway, he moved over here in the '60's(I think) and here I am.

As far as jobs & work, I was picking rocks for a penny apiece for the farmer across the road from home when I was 12. I've worked as a mechanic(RentX in Chickasha, OK), mechanic/equipment operator for bridge construction company(did the bridge on 44 just south of OKC), residential construction/remodeling for 12+ years, now I operate a 7 1/2' electric chain saw in the sawmill at a pallet & box company. Also do pretty much whatever maintenance they need, short of playing with 480. That stuff makes me nervous.

lol funny story there. Was troubleshooting the 3 head bandsaw one day. I forget what was wrong but I was doing electrical testing with the power on. Stupid, I know. Reaching into the guts of the power box, just about to put the leads where I needed to test, thinking "darn, this could kill me"...was carrying my cell phone in front pants pocket at the time, set on vibrate...suddenly cell phone goes off, takes me completely by surprise, I'm thinking early stages of electrocution, darn near wet my pants...was my lady sending me a text message. lol I love that woman, love her more than anything, but she almost gave me a heart attack. Figured that was a good sign to shut down the power before doing more. The good Lord has spared me more times than I care to admit.

Y'all have a good weekend.

Anthony
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My user name is an abbreviation of my fantasy sports team name (which is the Detroit Murderers). My name is Paul, I'm a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer, from the Detroit Area, currently in WA State, and still wanting to go home to Michigan some day.
 
My wife's grandparents were from Germany. They move here in the 1800's and had farms in PA. She said during WW2 she never told anyone her family was from Germany. Her mother had 5 kids and she worked on the farm too. She could also milk a cow. Hal
 
Name's Ron, and as the handle suggests, I live in Nova Scotia. Been in Canuckistan since 1967, when my family emigrated here from southeastern UK. Come from farmers on both sides, as well as lived on a farm all my life. I have two tractors, Ferguson TEA2085 and MF1085 in the yard right now. Worked in aviation manufacturing for 32 years, railcar repair for 2. Temporarily unemployed right now.
 
Hi Glenn,
Welcome to YT. This site is awesome, in my opinion. Of the little time I spend on my "crystal ball" (computer), this site is where I spend most of my time. There are so many knowledgable and good people on here that you couldn't buy this kind of information from a book. My handle is Kow Farmer. My name is Kurt. Hence spelling Kow with a K. I was given this name from my former boss. I am a small beef farmer and full time employee in a large manufacturing production facility. I would like to farm full time but economically and financially it is not feasible. Anyway, welcome. I believe you will really enjoy this site.
Kow Farmer
 
My name is my handle also. I never use an alias... I live in northern Oregon on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Been married, same woman, for over thirty years. Seven kids, three grand kids. Along with a partner, I own and manage an automotive repair business. I only have one tractor, a 445 Moline. I've been blessed...
 
jm. Stands for Jerry Mack.. 69 yrs, old. Heavy equipment salvage yard , kubota dealer, farmer, trucking company in Middle & west Tenn and a little of Ky. trying to wind down but stay buisser than ever.
Enjoy this board, lots of information and great folks.
 
My name is as listed and I live in Michigan. Was raised on a Michigan farm. Attended a Land Grant University (MSU). Worked 34 years as a state park manager for the State of Michigan's Department of Natural Resources, retired after 34 years then worked for Consumers Energy as an engineering aide for 10 years, then retired again. I am Age 70 and have 2ea. 2 cylinder John Deeres, a 50 and 430.
 
Dave from South Carolina, but raised in Detroit. Never liked the city and for the last 28 years live in Rockwood, Michigan 26 miles from Toledo. Electrician for 40 years. Had 5 licenses. None now retired at 68. 2 Farmalls, had Fords before. Anything with motor attracts me. Welcome to the forum. Dave
 
Hi Glenn, I retired after 12 yr. driving A truck, 25 yr. in the freight bus. I enjoy reading all the interesting things on YTmag. Sometime it is real helpfull.

I grew up on A farm in E. Tx. and still live here. After I retired I started collecting hammers. I have over 400 hanging in my shop.
My handle is Hammer House. but I sign my mail as, Hammer Man.
I have one 3910 Ford tractor.

Hammer Man
 

Howdy Glenn,

Handle says most of it,from northeastern md
on the md pa line,been on here for 10 or 12 yrs.
Grew up dairy farming,studied eletricity and
electronics at penn state,worked at that for a
while,went back to farming.Were milking 44 in the
early 60's , started dirt biz in the late 60's
while still farming,sold cows in 74,continued
dirt biz while starting repair biz,about stopped
dirt in 80 and been fixing things since, have
repair shop and both automotive machine and
straight machine shop and do quite a lot of
o/a cast iron welding,setting up a new weld
shop now.

george
 

My handle is for the state I live in and my first name,have been a member of YT for about 10 yrs. I'm 67 yrs old,1/2 German & 1/2 English,disabled, had a custom hay baling operation for 25 yrs and worked in all departments of a JD dealership for 21 yrs before hay baling. Did farm before becoming disabled and run a small herd of mixed breed cows with a Charolais bull. Live in the newest incorporated town in Texas called Coyote Flats(Dang annexation)
 
Hello Glenn and welcome to the Tractor Talk forum.

Agree that there are a bunch of good folks on here.

Its a good place to share what you know and learn what you need.

Lots of folks with vast experience and "know how"; some are even outstanding in their field.

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Retired and live on family farm in NE Texas.

Just use my name because now its about all I can read, write, or remember.
 
The Paul part is right, and I'm the smallest farmer in Branch County Michigan. 8 acres of crop ground, all in soybeans this year, which I do myself. 7 tractors, and a whole bunch of other junk. The guys on this forum are the best. I'm 68, retired mechanical engineer, journeyman tool & die maker, master electrician, and learnin' every day. Welcome!!
 
My name is Charles Hinton and I currently reside in Pittsboro NC. I a retired LEO (25 Years), and I've also worked as a jet aircraft mechanic (USAF), 18 wheel truck driver, farm tractor mechanic, hydraulic tech, (not all at the same time).
 
My handle stand for my first tractor 1936 JD B - nice running condition - I sold to my brother in Iowa which is my roots. Joe is my name and retired in 2003 with 36 years with the USDA - mostly working out of O Hare airport. One tractor at this time a 1949 JD A - which I am looking for a new home. In retirement I buy and sell hand tools - nothing bigger than I can pick - most times. Dad got home early from WW II so I will be 67 in June. Served two in the Army in 68 - 69. High School Was Keosauqua, IA. Reading for about 10 years on the site.
 

Hi Glenn,

As me handle says I'm Pete and I am only a Rookie compared to most on YT. Born and raised in Franklin Square, NY (Long Island NY, nearest landmark is Belmont RaceTrack about 10 miles west and NYC 25 west.
Suburban row houses of blue collar families, NYC Police, Fire, Sanitation Etc. When I was a kid a dreamed of being a Iroquois Indian but unfortunately was stuck living in Suburbia!

Started my PC software consulting biz in '87 and still at it today. Hate it at this point and prefer working with my hands and my head as opposed to my fingers and my head.

Left NY '03 post 911 as biz was almost none existent and while we were not yet under water on our house we were not making enough $$$ to live on LI. Moved to SC where we lived for 4 yrs outside Charleston. Too hot and sticky for our liking. In Feb '08 moved family up to York, Maine to a heavily wooded 1.5 acre lot! (Most land anyone in my family has ever had. LOL) Covered in mature Eastern White Pine ranging from 30-40 all the way up 75+ tall.

Only problem is ever since the developer "cut" out the patch to build the house, trees have been going down on a regular basis every ice, wet snow or "micro burst" storm. One section where a Nor'Easter got at it, looks like it has been bombed. Fallen trees, leaning trees ever which direction.

After getting tired of cutting up wood no one wanted (pine). Mills had too much due to the storms. Got a Alaskan Chainsaw Mill and started slabbing it. Made some nice big benches. Then my problem was hauling 18-24" by 10-12 logs out of the woods and lots of large rocks on property.
Got a estimate from a local excavating company and they wanted $6K to clear for a garage AND it would be more if they hit ledge.

Got the idea, to do it myself. Found the '66 Ford 4500 TLB in rough but
running/usable shape for $5k. Came across YTMag looking for info.
Love this old diesel. Battling leaks is a issue as I do not have the time or shop to fix it right now. No garage yet, not even any solid ground to work on. Gravel driveway or lawn and not much of that is even level.

Most of you would thing I am nuts but I would give up this software crap in a heart beat for a working farm. But with a wife and 3 boys that ain't going to happen unless I win the Lottery.

Pete
 
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