Re: Collectability ratings

Posted by Mr. Tracthrob on June 03, 2002 at 18:17:27 from (24.64.223.204):

In Reply to: Collectability ratings posted by Don E. Foster on June 02, 2002 at 18:14:20:

I have always loved tractors but was in the closet since I grew up on an Ont. farm as a young teen in the mid-sixties.Then we moved to the west coast of B.C. where tractors disapeared from my radar.Then in '78 I mortgaged my life and bought a cool little 3.5 acre farmette. I also bought a J.D.420 c/w loader for around the place but had no idea how this tractor fit in with anything that J.Deere had built UNTILL---
I went camping with my family in '95 and my brother in law ,the only good thing he ever did,he let me read two books that he bought at a tractor meet just across the line in Wash. state.They were pripp's buyers guides for John Deere and Ford N series.That was it for me.I read reread and re read and globbered over the pictures until it was time to go home and he made me give them back.
I now knew how my 420 fit in with the great John Deere history and all the what which and how I could and still am absorbing.
I used my John Deere buyer's guide to great advantage when I found and correctly identified a Lindeman crawler.I will always remember the great surge of excitement when ,buyers guide in hand I found the tag on that poor little machine half=sunk in a swamp.I bought and flipped turning a nice 3000$ profit.
Anyhow,as the world turns I now have guite a few tractor books and coupled with this absolutely great website I have become a guy that comes to peoples minds when they're talking old iron.So Iam getting more and more stuff.I have not much money but have tractors- - '53 Jubilee,'54NAA,J.D.420, Farmall M.D.widefront(stuck) ,Oliver O.C.3(stuck),Cub(loose,shot),Farmall A (GOOD),Ransomes MG-6,Gibson Super D2,JD430(parts),Inty 276 U,and I am out of the closet.Y -A-A-A-H-O-O-O-O!!!
thanks for reading --CHRIS v.d.W.

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