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Revredneck

07-19-2004 06:44:41




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I just got back from a trip to Michigan, where we had the opportunity to see the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. It was a wonderful day. The Village side has so much old Americana that you cannot possibly see it in one day. The working farm is great, but it is from an earlier era with no tractors. The agriculture section of the Museum side was a little disappointing. There were a few tractors, but not very many. Still, there is a lot of interesting and valuable stuff in there. If you ever get the chance, you should go! Good Luck and God Bless, Tommy

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Phil K.

07-20-2004 14:53:53




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 Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Revredneck, 07-19-2004 06:44:41  
Just wanted to drop a quick note that if you were planning on going to the greenfield village and henry ford museum you need to go on Oct 2-3 they have the Pageant of Power tractor and engine show and harvest festival going on that weekend. we seem to loose lots of the fordson guys from our area clubs show that weekend that go to it, they say its HUGE, takes up the whole area that weekend. just my two cents worth

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BEN in KS

07-19-2004 19:40:51




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 Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Revredneck, 07-19-2004 06:44:41  
The Henry Ford museum is great. If agriculture implements are what you are after try Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. LONG way off the beaten path but worth a stop.



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ErnieD

07-19-2004 18:36:25




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 Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Revredneck, 07-19-2004 06:44:41  
So I have been there 3-4 times over 17 years. Each year has been less and less Agriculture. There used to be a large selection of steam traction in the back, now it is class rooms. The round house for the loco's was new in 2000, sorta wish a pole barn had been built so we could enjoy the the ag implements.

Really want to go and see the f100 VAB tour, never been in one.

Wish they had one of those cut away tractors that showed all the inner workings turning. Funny what you remember from your youth.

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big fred

07-19-2004 10:11:46




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 Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Revredneck, 07-19-2004 06:44:41  
Go ahead, rub it in. Last year I spent lots of time in the Detroit area on business, but never got time to go to the Henry Ford Museum. One of these days...



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G.King

07-19-2004 08:21:16




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 Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Revredneck, 07-19-2004 06:44:41  
Been there there 2 times would go again , if in that area.. G.KING ___MAINE



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Harris Guy

07-19-2004 09:49:26




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 Re: Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to G.King, 07-19-2004 08:21:16  
Henry Ford always reminds me of authenic America.
He built a car for the working man to own, then a
tractor, for the farmer.His name was on products,
he did these projects without merging 5 companies
together. Since the eighties, Global Economy has
put Ford into the corporate merger game. Now, it's 50%(?)Mazda, 20%(?)Cummins, etc. The old motto:'Ford has a better idea' got lost buying used Firestone tires for several billion. Difficult to predict if the remaining core products can turn the current slump around.

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BWC

07-19-2004 18:04:17




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 Re: Re: Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Harris Guy, 07-19-2004 09:49:26  
None of the seven co. that ford owns (lincoln, mercury, mazda, volvo, jaguar, land rover, and aston martin) make up more than 50% of ford.



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Robert in W. Mi.

07-19-2004 15:26:18




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 Re: Re: Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Harris Guy, 07-19-2004 09:49:26  
Ford Does NOT own any of Cummins!!!!

Robert



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ray

07-20-2004 13:03:31




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Henry Ford Museum in reply to Robert in W. Mi., 07-19-2004 15:26:18  
I needed to find the critical dimensions for a backhoe mounting attachment sub-assembly the museum sent me over an electric copy of the engineering drawings to reproduce the part(for a fee). Pretty cool service they have. Last I heard they were hoping to have all the drawings scanned into image files and a library that you can search to buy copies.



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