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What do you collect or do for hobbies besides tractors?

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WELL??? So lets leave out closely farm/tractor related. May be you build wood canoes or repair old clocks or race motorcycles!!! With me all of it seems to be closely farm or logging related.
 
After all things related to farming I guess welding is my hobby now since I'm not in the buisiness anymore. I just love it when the right project comes along and I can pull out the weldors.
 
Metal detecting chasing women was a close second until I started dating my now wife bout 6 years ago. But really metal detecting is a lot of fun I enjoy it im out side and it keeps my mind off cows or milk prices or what ever real life is throwing at me. Also she and I enjoy shooting and hunting together.
 
Oh you sure have that right! There are so many cute ones out there and all we can do is watch. And even then they will give you a dirty look!
 
Film photography and dark room work. I've specialized the photography equipment for making highly magnified images. Bicycling, rifle target shooting/reloading,wood work/model making. I've been working on a scratch-built model of an 18th century English war-ship for years.
 
I would say fishing, fishing, and more fishing.

But seems I've got so little free time these days that I'd have to go with just one fishing.

And even that's stretching things a bit. I've done very little this year.

Also make my own lures and fishing rods.

Used to do a lot of woodworking too.

Love using my telescope too - poking around the night sky - if I don't fall asleep right after the sun goes down.

Amateur radio stuff - love antique radios and electronic equipment.

Might sound odd but I have a microscope too - love watching the single cell world in a drop of pond water - I find that fascinating that there's just SO much going on in one little drop.

Boy - I could go on and on with things I USED to do - lately it's just fixing tractors, equipment, the house, and cars!
 
This my "Fun Time" in the winter
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HATS every place I go I try to get a hat have about 300 hats.....when on vacation I get coffee cups with the name on it of where we have been, wew ride old steam trains all over the states, been to about 30 states and about 100 coffee cups
 
Wow - just fantastic!

Nature photos are superb. Rusty tractor category is great and the pink Cadillac is tops. Bookmarked it.

(I guess I need a real camera.)
 
You should open your e-mail, I have an apropriate video for you that will help in this area.
 
Photography on a beginner's level.

I see the entire world in photographs: from sunrise to sunset, from rusty iron to wildflowers and critters to a baby's smile... I could take photos all day.

One nice thing is that it is a cheap way to "collect" - especially since digital photography does not require developing the photos to enjoy them... just drop them into my computer and enjoy the slide shows (over and over again).
 
Everyone is after the tractors. I want (and collect) what no one else wants. I collect antique farm equipment. I have all kinds of stuff; Case Binder, IHC Corn Binder, mowers, sulky plows, discs, etc. My working tractors are two Allis WD's and a bunch of snap coupler equipment to go with it. No body wants the old ugly WD's so it fits right in with my collecting philosophy. You can see them at my farm's web site -
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Hedgewood Acres
 
JUST one!!

Couldn't stand the "joy" if I had any more some days!!!! :p

The worst part is that she likes my dads tractor the best.... What kind of bs is that?? I have like 13 of them, and she picks his ONE.... Man... I tell ya... :)
 
I am a student of the U.S. Army during the Indian War era (1865-1890) with a particular emphasis on the Army Bands of that period.
Allied to that, I play tuba in several area bands.
 
on-line auctions,fishing, hunting,(got a 200 lb black bear in Sept.) baking-about 150 to 200 dozen christmas cookies a year-give most of them away.
 
I have always collected words. They're cheap and easy to store.
Call me a logophile or a lexicomane.
My smart and lovely wife is too. It's one of the reasons we connected.
We constantly try to sneak a new word into ordinary conversations to see if the other is paying attention.
"I tried to tell him but he was being so atrabilious about it all that I don't think he heard anything I said."
"Wait, Atra what?"
"Atrabilious."
"Ok, where's the dictionary?..."
"Nyuck, nyuck."
 
I was a computer tech in the army and that's what I'm grinding through college for. In the winter I like to work on computers and edit images of farming and tractors.
I like to build computers out of components. It's actually very easy now-a-days.
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FindAGrave

There's nothing more peaceful than a cemetery, especially the old abandoned woods cemeteries.
 
Old bottles. Doesn't cost me anything and every once and a while I sell one.
Ron
 
I have no hobbies and do not collect anything ,other than gray whiskers. Never felt the need, my life is a full time hobby. I enjoy farm work and dairy cows. I serve on the county milk committee , and belong to the Lions club, to serve in my local area. Oh maybe some would say playing guitar with my brother from time to time is a hobby, but it is more of a vise, and every now and then I need a fix of old country /bluegrass.Then my brother and I get together and we get it out of our systems for a while.
 
Helping my Grand Daughter with her show cattle, take my Wife to flea markets and yard sales and auctions looking for restorable furniture which is her hobby. Buy and sell mostly ag related equipment and supplies.
 
I have always liked motorcycles. If I had a hobby it would be my motorcycles. I have several Yamaha's from the 60's and four Indian motorcycles from the 30's and 40's. My favorite will be my 1936 four cylinder. As for my tractors I have 12 or so, but will not consider them as a hobby. Some were left over from Dad's farming days. and the others I purchased to use in my mowing business. Stan
 
I collect paid bill receipts . I save until I can pay one and then save the receipt. That hobby has come in handy and once even the IRS was interested in my collection. Seriously my hobby is my work. I enjoy trying to make the farm better in some way. I guess that makes this a hobby farm?
 
Trap shooting, USPA pistol, 3-gun shooting and Steel Challange. Along with that is all reloading and prep for all of the rounds I shoot. Then there are the welding projects. Tractors are a fair weather hobby, shooting is the winter fun.
 
I collect firearms and ammo plus reload. Also when time lets me mess with motorcycles and repair cars. When in a lot of pain doing what I am doing right now and sitting in front of the computer
 
Astrophotography when I can get a nice enough night. Kids and I spend some time at night looking for satellites and the space station occasionally when its warmer out.
 
Lois and I enjoy Visiting the USA,some States on our 1983 1100 Goldwing. So far ALASKA,OREGON,WASHINGTON,ARIZONA,NEW MEXICO, IDAHO, MONTANA,TEXAS,Oklahoma,Kansas ,Nebraska, South and North Dakota, Louisiana.
Pic. Taken in HAINES ALASKA
Spent 21 days Touring Alaska and the Yukon Territory on the 1100 Goldwing
Bob/Lois
Canada
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I used to do a fair amount of chassis fabrication, including suspensions for drag racing.

Not so much of that nowdays, I still love working metal.
I have most all of the metal working tools and lots of welders.
Always trying to buy a little nice piece of equipment, then sell the old one off to someone starting out.

Rick
 
Ham radio, electronics, riding my old BMW motorcycle. And I'm a church organist. (That's where I get the money for the hobbies :) )
 
I like being on two wheels.

I bicycle about two thousand miles a year on my Mountain, Road, and Tantum bicycles.

I also travel the country on my motorcycle. I have been to every corner of the U.S.A. more than once and Alaska up to the Artic Circle. I've been up to Nova Scotia but haven't figured out how to get to Hawaii yet. I currently have an 1800 and 1500 Goldwing and a 750 Shadow. I just brought the 1800 in July and have been 12,000 miles on it. Heading to Fl. in Nov. to my grandson's wedding. Will probably have to try out my heated coat and gloves on that trip.
 
Gunsmithing, Photography, HO model trains, love to read history, used to build race cars, drag and oval track, collected Ford Mustangs for a while. I love flea markets and yard sales.
 
Some really terrific photography there, Jeff. Hope you've found a way to parlay that into some cash.
 
Well i like to do alot of stuff. Woodworking ,Shooting,Hunting,working on old cars and tractors. But right now i think im collecting Grandkids. Im only 55 and have 9 and another one that will be here in a couple months. Its like come on now keep that thing in your pants kids
 
I have never really had a hobby, but I?ve pursued numerous special interests. Looking back over the past 50 years it would appear that my hobby has been the remodeling of old houses and clearing land, as that?s where I?ve spent most of my time and money. The latest is a small house that I?m now living in; I repainted every surface in the house, even under the cabinet and closet shelves, and sanded, stained and varnished the hardwood floors. In the spring I built a 12? by 24? cover over the patio, and I just finished a 250? chain link backyard fence. Next I?m going to build a car cover over my driveway, and then I?m going to paint the entire exterior of the house. I am also in the process of clearing four acres of dense woods behind the house. (In order to build my other house, on an adjoining property, I had to clear the entire 12-acre lot using only chain saw, 8n and JD 1020, and can of gasoline. Took several years, working on weekends.)

My other interests are music (listening, playing and singing: I?m in two church choirs, a quartet, and I do solo gigs in area churches.) I have a large library, including an extensive Civil War collection. I have never ?collected? anything, per se, but I do have large accumulations of things: guns, war relics, bottles, jugs, tools, furniture, and an eclectic assortment of many unique or unusual items.

At 74 I?m running out of time and steam, but I still have lots to do. I want to finish writing my family history and illustrating it with hundreds of old family photos. In short, the word ?boredom" is a concept to which I cannot relate.
 
I have never really had a hobby, but I?ve pursued numerous special interests. Looking back over the past 50 years it would appear that my hobby has been the remodeling of old houses and clearing land, as that?s where I?ve spent most of my time and money. The latest is a small house that I?m now living in; I repainted every surface in the house, even under the cabinet and closet shelves. In the spring I built a 12? by 24? cover over the patio, and I just finished a 250? chain link backyard fence. Next I?m going to build a car cover over the driveway, and then I?m going to paint the entire exterior of the house. I am also in the process of clearing four acres of dense woods behind the house. (In order to build my other house, on an adjoining property, I had to clear the entire 12-acre lot using only chain saw, 8n and JD 1020, and can of gasoline. Took several years, working on weekends.)

My other interests are music (listening, playing and singing: I?m in two church choirs, a quartet, and I do solo gigs in area churches.) I have a large library, including an extensive Civil War collection. I have never ?collected? anything, per se, but I do have large accumulations of things: guns, war relics, bottles, jugs, tools, furniture, and an eclectic assortment of many unique or unusual items.

At 74 I?m running out of time and steam, but I still have lots to do. I want to finish writing my family history and illustrating it with hundreds of old family photos. I would like to build a new workshop, and if there's time, I might like to "restore" my JD 1020. I "restored" my dad's 8N a few years ago.

In short, the word ?boredom" is a concept to which I cannot relate.
 
Raising horses, Used to ride in Confederate Civil War Reenacting unit til I got too old. Restoring old tractors. Stamp collecting. Genealogy. Travel. WWII submarine history research (I rode the old "Smoke Boats" 1960-64). Garden 1/2 acre veggies. Nature study ( retired wildlife biologist).

BTW, I double everyone's comments on Jeff's photography, a real artist. I admire anyone who can find the beauty of small things that are around us. I was in Idaho last month on vacation, the little photography I did was of big critters, moose, elk, bison, etc. But Jeff's shots of what is under your feet are much more impressive (to me at least).
 
My boy put computers together 20 years ago when he was in high school. He would network them together, have his friend over to play video games. He cheated, his computer was always the fastest. Now he is head of IT security at a big hospital group. IT security is where the big bucks are.
 
(quoted from post at 16:43:01 10/27/15) I collect paid bill receipts . I save until I can pay one and then save the receipt. That hobby has come in handy and once even the IRS was interested in my collection. Seriously my hobby is my work. I enjoy trying to make the farm better in some way. I guess that makes this a hobby farm?
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All farming has turned into a hobby, a rich mans hobby.
 
It has raised lettering that reads Contrell & Cochrane, Dublin & Belfast. They had ginger ale, seltzer water, and medicated aerated water. They had round bottoms so they would be stored on it's side so the cork would stay moist. fairly. common bottle around here. I found about twenty of them on a job when I dug up a tree. This is a bunch of bottles we found on another job, haven't yet cleaned them.
Ron
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I was given an old outboard motor. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I've have it for about 20 years. On the tag it says, Alto Outboard designed by Ole Evinrude.
 
Auto body work. Mostly my own projects now, my schedule is too erratic to take customer work.
 
Used to do dirt bikes and snowmobiles until they got crazy expensive (and the goobermint stuck their nose in and ruined everything).
 
That is one cool Ranchero. My best friend had a 65 I helped with 289, 4 speed and yellow as well. Love it.
Ron
 
This is different- Have 2 good sized LN2 tanks full of frozen bull semen and cow embryos. Always looking for something old and rare just to preserve it for a day when all the inbreeding in the dairy breeds requires some outcrosses. Not much fun in that- maybe it is an addiction.
 
Me too! I have cream separators, milk cans, milk bottles, milk cases, stanchions,milkers, and other related stuff.
 
I'd gather equipment too, but there are 3 problems.

A, A lot of the equipment is shot, not worth the time to even look at it.

B, people pay to much for the stuff, mainly for "yard art"

C, There is no room in the sheds the way it is. (This comes in a tight second behind(if not even with) option B.)

There are 2 thresh machines, two clover hullers(one parts, saved from the burn pile), a couple corn husker/shredders, a handful of pull type combines, two corn binders, a couple feed cutters, a wood grain drill, case pull type swatter,........ and more.

That's just off to the sides in the main shed, there's another shed full of stuff and a bunch rusting/tucked under the windbreak. I NEED to get this place organized, though no ambition to do it.
 
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BE BLESSED, GRATEFUL, PREPARED, NIK
 
If I had an electronic camera and knew how to post photos I would be glad to. The model is of the Alfred, a 74 gun ship of the line. The plans came from Harold Hahn (recently deceased) of Lyndhurst, OH. He was a modeler/historian of some renown. A book he published on his making of the Alfred and his plans are my guide. Hahn went to museums in England and the US, gained access to their archives, selected original plans of ships which were of interest to him, made cleaned-up copies suitable for modeling and sold them. His family has continued with sales of his plans. The model is made from the keel up with all internal construction as the real ship was. The model is in 3/16 scale, about 40 inches long. Working on it is total immersion in the ways of the 1700's. I've become a bit of an historian myself in the process.
 
Steve, what part of the world are you in? Wondering if you may have known a man named James "Beaver" Tyler? He was a good friend of mine, passed away a few years ago, lived in Ft Worth Tx, later moved to Possum Kingdom Lake.

He was an avid outboard collector, mostly OMC products. Wish I knew where some of them ended up. His wife died shortly after he did, hope they didn't get scrapped...
 
I don't remember all the towns. We did Cape Breton and Halifax, saw Peggy's cove. The highlight for me was staying at a Bed and Breakfast called Clayton Farm. He had a herd of Red Angus. When got their about 4 pm he had a sign on the door and told me to come on in and make ourselves at home. The cows were out in the pasture out back if I wanted to look at them. He would be home late as he was baling hay a few miles away. He didn't know me from Adam but trusted me. We just called the night before and reserved a room. He showed up about 10 pm that night. It was great and he had a nice herd of cattle to look at.

The next year we took a ferry from Portland Maine to Yarmouth. We spent the week on our bicycles on a organized ride with a group and did about 500 miles on our tantum bike. We camped at schools along the way. We had a good time and saw some beautiful country.
 
IH tractors, blacksmithing, woodworking, green wood woodworking, couple of old cars, antique farm equipment, astronomy, broom making, weaving, sock knitting, land clearing (love making pasture), wood turning, pottery (dig clay on my farm), logging, Hall pottery, steel fabrication, machining, knife making, photography, travel, not enough time left.
 
Jeff; that is some serious photography. The wet chickadee is a winner; have you ever entered the National Audubon Society's contests? Would love to have you speak/show at our local chapter.
 
Still farm related, but my hobby is Thoroughbred horse racing. Oh ya, I'm drooling for Saturday to get here!
 
Here some you've probably seen. But also skiing, hiking, travel, antiques of all kinds, reading.
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Flying, have gone through about 10 old collector cars, looking for number 11. Acting sing in our church choir, travelling---to England and Europe this spring---oh, have a coin collection from my childhood years. Also collect real money, but it seems to slip away....

Ben
 
Slowly restoring my old tractor, reloading and skeet shooting, model train set, restored an old Corvette. All these have taken place over a number of years.
 
Steve@Advance
I'm in Northwest Indiana.
I hope your friends motors didn't get scrapped.
Sadly that happens sometime.
If I pass, My Wife knows to talk to someone from the
Antique Outboard Motor Club, inc. to help Her get rid of them.
However my 10yr old Daughter is taking an interest in them.

Steve A W
 
Ken L
That would be Elto, it stands for Evinrude Light Twin Outboard.
After Ole Evinrude developed the Evinrude outboard motor co. his wife got sick.
He sold the company and concentrated on taking care of his wife.
While taking care of his wife he developed a twin cylinder motor using aluminum.
So he then started a new company called "ELTO"
If You would like more info on Your motor go to the forums on the Antique Outboard
Motor Clubs website.
If you want to get it running They'll help with that.

Steve A W
AOMCI
 
Old
My bad heart and bad knees keep stressing to me that smaller motors are better.
Most of my collection is 10hp and lower.
I've got a 16' jon boat that I've run with as small as 3hp motors.
I'm going to try a 1hp motors and see if it will push it. LOL
Their fun to play with, even if You don't have a boat.
I did a lot of " Barrel Cruising" before I owned a boat.

Steve A W
 
Thank you all for your kind comments. The wet chickadee photos have always been some of my favorites. I'm not much of a speaker, but a photo presentation wouldn't be out of the question. Where are you at?
 
I am not a serious collector. This motor was somehow picked up by my Dad sometime around 1950. It was passed down to me from his eclectic assembly of mechanical marvels. My guess it is conventional.
 
This has been a "other" hobby of mine since I was very young, these here I bought all together, its fun to let them run and tell their story.
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