Why show? He speaks the truth! Heck I like my old tractors but I would never consider taking them to a show. Move them to set them in one spot for a weekend? Not taking them to a parade either. How boring! I COULD BE FISHING/BOATING/SCUBA DIVING or watching paint dry.
I generally try to stay out of these conversations. But look at it this way. There are millions of 50 year old and older American. I bet tractor collectors/enthusiasts make up maybe a whopping 1-2% at best? I it was at 1-2% our old tractors would be worth far more than they are today. Now try to entice a young person into tractor collecting.
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Rick, try reading Doc's post again. What I take issue with is his statement that:
"no one actually puts a blade in the ground, and does anything with the tractor. So - it's more about the ownership, restoration, and viewing, not so much the utility. I have only been to a couple of tractor events, and I've never ever seen an old tractor being used as a tractor."
Doc says that we take them to shows but that we DON"T USE THEM. I put some fifty hours a year on one of mine actually doing money making work with it. One of the clubs that I belong to puts on probably four plow days every year. Another one does two. In addition I know from many years participating here at YT that MANY of the regulars are really using their old tractors for productive work on a very regular basis.
Doc says that: "Mowing a field, or furrowing, or haying, or seeding isn't really that much fun." Here he is referring to what we do with them on a regular basis as opposed to while at the shows.
I know for a fact from what I have read here MANY times over the years, that many of us really do consider pretty much any work that we do with our old tractors to be fun. Sure I enjoy flying down a snowmobile trail at 70 MPH to be fun but that does not take away from the enjoyment that I get from my old tractors.
These sort of statements, at least to me, are disturbing. They attack to the core of something that is important to me, and I think that anyone making such statements should be more knowledgeable of his topic than going with what he observed at just attending just two shows[/quote]
I see where you are coming from I think. You can work at a desk or factory job day after day and never really get a sense as to what you have accomplished in a given time frame. I too find doing tillage work satisfying it's because you can look across a field and what you have gotten done. Then the farmer looking at that kinda loses his mind. He envisions helping the masses by producing cheap food for them. The forget one of those slugs who enjoyed that cheep food was the kid behind that parts counter who didn't care if parts order was right. Of the kid at the fast food place that spit in his burger. Or the welfare bum. In other words he's very pleased with the very people he'd like to see starve to death enjoying the fruits of his sense of accomplishment.
But he is right. Most collectors don't do anything with a tractor. And even if they attend a plow day it's a couple of hours once a year. Some guys put a whopping 2-3 hours a year on their tractor. Most of the gear heads I know most likely get at least 50 hours a year behind the wheel. SO I completely see his point.
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