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feature night?

Not mine, yet.
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Been my favorite this winter, like the color and it's not john Deere , for a change.

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There's me, and my dad (that guy in the shorts...) That was at our local Harvest Day, got to go for a ride on one of the combines!

But back to the point, that is my "favorite hat" along with just a plain JD Ball Cap that I wear whenever I am working around the house. Bryce
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Here is a picture of the hat that my girlfriend just picked up off of Amazon for me. The front is made of real wood (apparently). I am guessing it is corkwood, but still neat! I like the fact that it says "Deere Hunter" on the back. She was the one who told me to get the current JD A project. I think I will keep her too... (The girlfriend and the tractor).
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My new hot-pink DEKALB hat... from the YT'ers who met in Cillinois! Getting just a little dirt and grease on it now - it'll be ready for shooting some junkyard art this summer.
 
This is one of my favorites, but it is not worn much anymore.. It is a pre 1950 hat that I wear on special occasions only. clint
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I don't have any pictures ready for tonight's feature but I'll share a story about a hat. My Dad's hat.

Back in the real early 1950's I was maybe 2 years old. We the family went to the rodeo in Phillipsburg Kansas, which claimed to be the largest rodeo in Kansas. It probably was as it was a real nice rodeo for years. May still be.

Anyway, the weather was usually hot and humid when it was held. Dad had bought snow cones for everyone. We were sitting on the stands on the south end (remember this like it was yesterday) and Dad had taken his hat off and had it in his lap. My sno cone was a red one and I was standing on the runners of the stands and sorta tripped and spilled my sno cone into his hat.

Hats cost money and we didn't have a lot so this was a big deal. This hat was a straw hat but in the style of a business dress hat of the times. Well, Dad couldn't wear it cause it had a rather large permanent stain but he did keep it the rest of his life and Mom kept it hanging on the same hook on the enclosed porch for many years.

Just a story but it is oft remembered when I think about hats or caps.
 
I haven't even counted my hats, or caps lately! The girls used to bring me hats with such as "DAD ROCKS" on them. I have always had an of the wall sense of humor. I have one that says, "I'm drunk, and you're ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober!" Another says, "Where the he!! is Level Cross, N.C.?" One of my very favorites, which I haven't worn in years, is a souvenir a great day my son and I spent together right after he finished community college. It says,"SOUTHERN NATIONALS, Mopars at the "ROCK" '89. Rockingham Int'l Dragway. We spent an entire day at an all Mopar show at the NASCAR oval, and the dragstrip across the highway.
 
I once wore a John Deere hat into a Toro dealer. he told me I had to leave or buy a Toro. So I asked him to see something in the 130hp range. He shut up and decided it would be better to help me with the chainsaw I was looking at.
 
Sadly no pic :( I have an 20+ year old black felt 'cowboy' hat.Still wear it frequenty(most of the time!).Get lots of comments on it!They will have to bury it with me!
 
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This is my dress hat, along with SWMBO, have a felt cowboy hat for working around here that got a little messed up when a horse snuck up behind me and took it to play with (who'd thunk a horse could sneak up like that LOL) as well as my everyday cap that has my Tarten colors on brim
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Collection? Many dozens, don"t know if it"s in the hundred"s. But favorite is always one of my paratrooper hats. Army Special Forces, with the SF patch and Airborne wings. Walked out of a restaurant in New Orleans last month cuz they didn"t "allow" hats. FM!

So nice in recent years, on trips, meet strangers, especially in southern states gas stations......what unit, 82nd, one owe worst? (101st?) or?. I just say, no, other airborne...8th Special Forces Group...then they wonder where was that SF? Actually? SF was worldwide....Germany, Panama, Central America, Okinawa, US, Nam....let"s just, say elsewhere....and

Today- went to VA for hearing aid fitting.....stopped at Batteries Plus for phone battery....very young clerk says you get a discount....cuz of your hat! So nice to see the respect they show for Veterans now.

Later, stopped at St. Cloud (ok, Waite Park- just to show respect to the Silver Star Legion!)....for dinner. I met a guy who said ....we didn"t like to see you guys in Nam, cuz if you were around.....we knew TROUBLE was nearby!
 
Stepson worked for BBL out of Syracuse some years back. He is Civil and Environmental Engineer and like me a Clarkson alumni.
 
Same thing happened to me, I went in to a toro dealer wearing a John Deere hat, guy said you like JD mowers, I said no JD square balers. Lol, the guy dident know whit to say. I was gonna tell him I was there to see if toro made square balers!
 
Those hats will never die. I have one that Diana has through away several times, and it just keeps coming back. Ha Ha
 
Keeps my lip from falling off when I'm out makin hay all day, also keeps rain from goin dwon my neck or getting on my glasses when feedin critters!
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Larry, I notice you stack your bales flat rather than on end, I was tought as a kid stack them on end cut side up. I've done it that way for years. When I met my wife I seen her father stackes them flat like you do. Well after haveing many problems with mice chewing the twine, I stack them flat like that too now, seems to be alot less problems, what's your reason for stacking them flat?
 
My bother came to Red Power at Du Quoine with a John Deere hat, and I told him, real serious, they would throw him out because of that hat. So he took it off and went hatless all day! Mark
 
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