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Lost My Grandfather
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Posted by Colorado Curt on June 23, 2005 at 14:09:30 from (146.174.51.103):
My Grandfather, Ed Lubbers, died this morning at age 95. He was responsible for getting me into this tractor thing. He started farming in NW Iowa with horses and his first tractor was a Farmall Regular. He had a bad experience working for a neighbor with a John Deere B and vowed to never own a John Deere tractor. He never did. He had many tractors over the years. Some of them that I can remember are: H, M, MTA, 300 Utility, 560, 656, 966 as well as a 930 and a 1030 Case. At age 90 he went with me to buy my first tractor, a 560D. He walked up to it, turned on the key, made sure it was in neutral, hit the glow plugs for a while and started it. It was just like he had done it the day before. I have many memories from childhood sitting on his lap riding a tractor. Mowing hay or cultivating with an H, baling with the 560, plowing with the 930. I will miss him.
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