Re: The future of the hobby we all love.

Posted by Nolan on September 20, 2002 at 04:07:28 from (209.48.190.218):

In Reply to: The future of the hobby we all love. posted by Bryan in Michigan on September 19, 2002 at 14:05:47:

To keep a thing going, and to get younger people involved in it, you have to be open to their values and desires. It's been interesting owning an 8N Ford, and having some involvement with folks that play with those machines. By and large they are older people restore to factory oem correct. Any deviation from factory correct is met with revulsion, and anyone under the age of about 40 is despised.

Now maybe it's just me, but I don't think you're going to get a person into playing with an antique tractor if you insult them for their music and clothes, and threaten them because they didn't paint a tractor the proper oem shade of grey and did a 12 volt alternator conversion.

As our farmland gets eaten up by developments the ability to house a big ole tractor becomes progressively difficult. Doubly so with the plethera of homeowner ordinaces and such. So the lawn tractors become the toy of interest more and more. So be it.

Same those big old steam threshers. And with them there's also the ever increasing difficulties of getting them certified and keeping them operating as they corrode away.

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