Posted by oldtanker on June 30, 2019 at 10:37:46 from (66.228.255.203):
In Reply to: sign of the times posted by pinball on June 29, 2019 at 06:28:49:
Some of you wanna blame the younger folks. Really the blame falls on the 80's farm crisis. Prior to 1980 there was about 35 million farmers. Figure 2 kids each so 70 million kids who grew up around tractors.
Today there are about 3.5 million farmers.
So there was the loss of about 90% of prospective tractor people. And those kids were going to want tractors they grew up with. So if dad farmed with 06/56/66 series IH, 20/30/40 JD's ECT then that's what they want. The guys who grew up with H's and M's, 8Ns, A or B Deere's. WD's and VAC's? They are dropping like flies. Moving into assisted living. ECT. So most of the under 50 crowd, even if they want a tractor don't want your old tractor.
As far as younger people buying new compacts? Why would they buy and old tractor that has questionable hydraulics, no power steering and are not that great for loader work? Plus through no fault of their own they don't know how to work on them. If dad was never taught then they had nothing to pass on. I grew up in the burbs in NJ in the 60's. I was the only kid in the neighborhood who learned how to work on things, lay bricks or do framing. So every time there is a problem it's 80 an hour plus parts. So why would you want an old tractor? Besides, these younger people want to do what they have to do and then spend time recreating. They don't think of spending hours on a tractor mowing, then spend hours tinkering cause there was a problem.
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