Re: 50 degees F to 11 below in one day - photos

Posted by jdemaris on January 18, 2007 at 06:10:00 from (66.218.12.212):

In Reply to: Re: 50 degees F to 11 below in one day - photos posted by Roy Suomi on January 17, 2007 at 18:27:48:

I got sent to Deere school every winter when things slowed down in the shop. Even got sent to Iowa twice. First Deere dealer I worked for on the NJ/NY line was in Ramsey - for Imperial Tractor Co. The boss owned the Deere dealership and also owned a BMW car dealership next-door. Believe it or not, our two service vehicles were BMWs that we beat the heck out of. I got sent to school in southern New Jersey - late 1960s. When I later worked for a dealer a little further north in Orange County, NY and I went to Deere service schools at G&H or Nelson Equipment (I forget which one) - a Deere dealership in the area. When I moved north to Otsego County in the late 70s and went to work for Laneway Inc. (ag, forestry, industrial, and consumer) in Oneonta - all our service schools were at the Deere place in Syracuse. Late 80s they wanted to send me to Dubuque for three weeks and I refused to go and almost got fired. Had four kids at home and all was heated with wood. Also had many animals to feed. I didn't want my wife burning the house down and didn't care to be away anyway. So, the vice-president fired me - but the president/owner stepped in and "vetoed" the deal - and I kept my job. The president, Jim Lane was a lifetime chicken-farmer - a real old fashioned farmer and business man and Deere tractor lover. He died around 1990 - sort of the "last of the tractor mohicans." When I first went to work at Laneway in the 70s - nearby there was a Case dealer, an Allis Chalmers dealer, a Ford dealer and an International dealer. We had a few "tractor dealers" get-togethers every year - it was something to remember. All these guys were old-fashioned farmers turned businessmen - getting their starts back in the day when a farmer sold tractors right from his farm as a sideline. All those dealers are gone now - except for the Ford place and they sell mostly small "play farm" stuff now.

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