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$1.6 Billion?

Tractor? You must be really, really old........I'd spend it on booze, fast cars and faster women! :shock: :lol: :lol: :twisted:

Rick
 
I'd buy some fenders for my ford 4000 row crop and get the injector pump rebuilt. If there was enough left over I'd fix the back porch.
Ron
 
Probably none but the ones I have now would be completely gone through.
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RBnSC, I remember back when the lottery first started here in Texas.

All they had was scratch tickets. They wanted to kick it off big, so they made it easy to win, and threw in a few million dollar tickets.

There was a local man that actually got one of the million dollar ones!

He was interviewed on the news, asked what he was going to do with the money...

"Well, I don't really know... I think first I'll finish closing in the back porch so the boys will have their own bedroom..."
 
I would build my own factory.

Start making simple, no frills, no electronics tractors, made to order for whatever the customer wanted.
 
I would build a big ol shop with cold tractor storage in the back and a heated working area in the front with a door between the two and a door going outside from each. Of course the storage section would be 2-3X bigger than the shop portion to accommodate all the toys I will get! First new toy I'd get? A 5488 IH!
 
Heard this on the radio a few years back when lottery got around 20 million or so. Guy said the first thing he would do is call everyone he ever knew and tell them "I just won the big one, and you are not getting any of it." Then he would change his name, dress like a poor slob and move a long way off and try to start a new life. But with today's technology, if he decided to move, people there would know he was coming way before he got there.

I guess what I would do is donate most to my favorite charities to help them with disaster relief. (Not Red Cross CROOKS. Past experience with them) Sure know they can use it this year.
When I got out of the military many years ago I tried to get a loan to start farming. Banks would not give me the time of day so I went to a factory job until I could afford to farm. Guess I could never afford it yet. If I won, I would be able to afford it. With that much money and farming, I am sure I could start with $1.6 Billion and within 10 years, maybe still have half of it left. Maybe.

Guaranteed I will not have that problem. I still have the first dollar I never spent on any kind of lottery. Think of all the poor people that spend their kids' food money for lottery tickets hoping to hit it big. Not me!
 
Good luck with that plan, Steve.

I expect that the federales would place insurmountable obstacles in your way.

Dean
 
With 1.6 billion to spend, I think I?d be too busy trying to pickup 100-1,500 acres , all in one block, so I never had to put up with traffic while running my tractors. Probably move to Manitoba, near the North Dakota boarder . Low population density there, middle of the continent. And I could slip down to some of those auctions in the western states, lots of big old tractors and combines seem to sell for a song out there.
 

Probably a 4X4 Kubota with loader and heated cab. Backhoe, too.

But it's a pretty well-known fact among financial people and others that suddenly coming into a huge jackpot often ruins the winner's life. Just not prepared for all that money and everything that comes with it.

In my neighboring state of West Virginia, a man hit the 250M jackpot some years back. Destroyed his family, left everyone aimless and wondering what hit them.
 
I'd hire a guy to finish all my projects around here. And buy a Diamond T pickup and have him install a 12 valve Cummins in it. And. . . And. . .

Or maybe like the guy who called his wife at home and said "Pack your bags! I won the lottery!!!"
"Should I pack for a warm climate, or cool?"
"I don't care, as long as you're out of the house by the time I get home!"
 
I would like to have 1 of each letter series farmalls, trouble is l wouldn't want to give up and move away I would still like to be active in my local American legion post and still be able to hit some auctions around the area, sure would contribute to our church and some other charities in a big way, maybe it would be best if I didn't win it at all.
 
The truth be stated just about all of us would be better off without it. A million dollars would not lend itself to a lot of fun but would keep our lives stable. The worst that may happen would be friends no longer speaking to you out of jealousy.
 
NY986 - your reply is one that makes the most sense and is definitely true. That's an obscene amound of money. I think up here on the Super Lottos, once the prize hits maybe $60 million, then they just start adding extra million dollar winners, so if it gets to $80 million in the pot, the winner would get $60M and 20 guys would get a million each. That makes a bit more sense I think.
 
I would buy a Rumley Oil Pull and a semi to haul it. And with that much money why limit it to just one tractor?
 
I'm going to buy a ticket but would be relieved if I only got second prize. I will say that if you are not greedy you can do a lot of good for a lot of people via philanthropy. Several years ago some couple from Georgia won around 500M and they gave away nearly all of it to avoid the headaches of keeping it. Hopefully, that worked out for them.
 
:) Years ago, a colorful old big plat home builder was
interviewed. Subject of his $ came up and he said something
to the effect that he spent half of it on wine & women...and
that he had squandered the rest.
 
I wouldn't buy a tractor.
I'd buy 5 square miles in NE Iowa and build Tailerville in the center.
Steam powered generator for the town, no electronics, a big a$$ed shop where we can all work on tractors and such.

You are all invited.

Larry
 
You got me, Larry.

I like the old Lawrence Welk shows, especially the B & W ones, and I especially like the Lennon Sisters.

Dean
 
If I remember correctly that guy started hanging around strip clubs which are loaded with unsavory types. Just gave money to family without stipulations. You have to
completely change your thinking if that is how your life ran to that point. Stay away from the bars and strip clubs. Don't pretend that family is not vulnerable to
temptation and put any money for the weak willed into trust. My one BIL would definitely require a bunch of stipulations for any money he got. Forfeiture of all money if
picked up for DWI, drug possession, a certain amount of money doled out on a monthly basis, etc.. Don't play around.
 
YES!!!!! YES!!!!! YES!!! or sell my place to a worse neighbor and move to a section and put myself in the center.. LOL
 
Even with just a million, you would have more friends and relatives that you never knew before...most of them with their hands out.....
 
That would be Jack Whittaker. He was already a multimillionaire before he won the Powerball. He also, hung out at strip clubs well before winning the lottery.
 
I would have to agree. Take what you really need out of it to retire/survive and figure out a way the remainder could be used effectively help those genuinely in need, and that means not to be an enabler to those who would say they are in need, and are not.

What does a person do when they announce the winner ? You cannot imagine how things will change, and what shows up at your door with bad intent or worse. Someone will want to rob you at some point, whether you are home or not and elsewhere, you have a 1.6 B mark on your back.

In a practical sense, you are much better off with a modest take, vs a huge jackpot like this. We all pooled in at work, it's a novelty given the odds...don't quit your day job LOL !
 
3 of my now neighbors moved into the area and by doing so have taken away many of the rights I once had and that has cost me big $$ over time. They have put restriction on me that where not here back in 1980 when I moved here and where never here till they imposed them on me
 
Here you go, Larry, the very first appearance of the Lennon Sisters on the Lawrence Welk Show, Christmas Eve, 1955, singing a BIG McGuire Sisters hit, HE.

Dean
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For a tractor I would like a 2520 with a powershift trans.The state knocked a dam down here in town because they couldn't come up with the money to replace it.I would like to see it rebuilt.We have some old bridges I would like to see restored also.I know of a few dozen barns that the owners would like to keep,but just can't do it.Then,if I had any money left I would like to build some low-income housing units close to a few people I know.I would also like to make a bouqet of money,and light it on fire in front of some cash-worshippers I know.I don't think I could really do that though.
 
(quoted from post at 09:31:40 10/23/18) If I remember correctly that guy started hanging around strip clubs which are loaded with unsavory types. Just gave money to family without stipulations. You have to
completely change your thinking if that is how your life ran to that point. Stay away from the bars and strip clubs. Don't pretend that family is not vulnerable to
temptation and put any money for the weak willed into trust. My one BIL would definitely require a bunch of stipulations for any money he got. Forfeiture of all money if
picked up for DWI, drug possession, a certain amount of money doled out on a monthly basis, etc.. Don't play around.
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Yes, good suggestions on how to proceed if the winnings came your way. It's likely many people don't think that far ahead, because they don't believe they'll actually win.

Hard for me to follow these threads, but if you're talking about the West Va man, it was an all-around bad situation. The kicker is this fellow already had a comfortable life, was doing more than ok. Good contractor with plenty of business, he and his wife were raising their granddaughter. The local papers covered this extensively, and it was almost a case-study for the effects of a mega-windfall on regular folks. The granddaughter got involved with drugs, eventually overdosed and died. The life she and her young friends led was utterly devoid of meaning, and some of her friends who were later interviewed realized this and got out while they could, distanced themselves from the excess and debauchery.

Personally--the things I like are what I've always liked and enjoyed. I don't like old tractors and rusty machinery because I don't have a lot of money--I just like them, and always have. I think a lot of folks who suddenly find themselves rich believe they have to conform to some model of what a rich person lives like.
Go out and buy a Rolls-Royce? Right, that would really fit my lifestyle of mucking around in a gravel and dirt driveway and dragging heavy machines home from God-knows-where. However, even if a winner really tries to maintain a life they had before--I think the external pressures brought on by the money is often too much to bear. As you mentioned, they'd probably be better off without it.
 
I'd buy farms in countrys like Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela and build shelters for homeless street kids and buy Kubota tractors or maybe that new little tractor that was on tractor of the day and have the kids do some of the work farming and ranching.
 
A house in Margaritaville and a bunch of iron, what ever tripped my trigger, But first a new school for our town. You know if my wife let me.
 
Well, to actually give an answer?

1st I'd buy every copy i could find of anything to do with Lawrence Welk and burn it!

Then I'd find a bi-directional with 3 point and PTO on both ends. That would be my snow tractor. Then I'd buy a newer TLB, JD or Ford, 710 or 755. Then a CaseIH 4X4 or quad track plus implements to have a nice tractor to operate to help my nephew with. Then with that kinda money? Just about any tractor I wanted!

Rick
 
That kind of money would buy all the Farmall M's known to exist (have a sense of humor on this). Except mine that is.
 
(quoted from post at 14:07:48 10/23/18) That kind of money would buy all the Farmall M's known to exist (have a sense of humor on this). Except mine that is.
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Then we can work on making your's valuable.......run the rest through a crusher!

RIck
 
Posts like this remind me of when I first saw nnalert coming out. I thought it looked stupid, like a scam, but I almost got some as a gamble. It was under a penny a piece. I thought they had a limit of how much you could get in a week or day, but I forget that part. Had I gotten what I thought about getting, I would have had several million by now and wouldn't have spent very much. Oh well.

Winning, don't think I would tell a single person. I'd make a few anonymous donations to people that need it that I know. Couple other anonymous things to a few people around. And I would buy one new tractor, a 115 pto HP. And then a 4020, mechanically but not physically restored. Then I would have my 4240 mechanically gone through, everything fixed, maybe a brand new motor, new hydraulics, just to do it (not that it has anything much wrong with it).

I'd also put in a new 1500 square foot house, plus a bunker for storms and storage (but not an ordinary one, like something from Rising S Bunkers). Also a new shop. ...and I'd hire someone to cut cedar trees....
 
Hopefully, you live in a state where you don't have to go public. The trouble is that kind of money begs people to pry into things. Be better if it were just a few million
where most people would forget about it in a week. If I could win just a few million I would get a new pickup, replace the furnace so I don't have to worry about it, and
put up a garage. Oh, I would pay off the mortgage to boot. Maybe a couple of old tractors, too.
 
Yeh --- do you realize that there are some thing like 2500 nukes stored at Minot ND -- which is a couple of hours from where you want to move to in southern Manitoba
 
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