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Farmall Therapy!

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Bigtime299

10-25-2001 14:05:48




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Hope no one minds another post from me, but I had my first dose of therapy from Dr. Farmall. Yesterday was the pits, I was still at my desk at 5:30 PM. When I got home, I just wanted to start up my Super A for the heck of it. After about 2 minutes of the purring sound of a smooth running 50 year old tractor, the day seemed not so bad afterall! Does this apply to alot of other folks, or am I nuts?

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RayP(MI)

10-26-2001 15:27:08




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD - THAT'S WHY! Ah, the rumble of the engine, the whine of the gearbox, the swoosh of the hydraulics, the smell of the fresh turned earth. It's easier to understand if you grew up on the farm, but you can acquire the taste later in life. Lucky for me, my dear wife grew up on a farm driving a BN. When I called one saturday afternoon, said we had hay on the ground, and it looked like rain - that we were going to have to postphone our date, and she said she understood.... Made up my mind then and there she was the one! When I brought home one of her dad's Farmalls she wasn't upset. Later, when we brought home her beloved, late Uncle Paul's JD, she was overjoyed that the tractor had a home where it would be loved, respected and cared for.
Lucky me, I can do it in RED or GREEN!

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The Red

10-27-2001 12:02:43




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 Re: Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to RayP(MI), 10-26-2001 15:27:08  
Nice bunch of pictures Ray!!



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300 Randy

10-26-2001 11:47:24




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
I know what you mean. When I open up my 300 utility up in 5th gear and the front wheels start flopping and the steering box is jumping up and down and all the linkage is going nuts I just have to break out laughing outload. Got to fix all that stuff this winter.



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J.D. Humm

10-26-2001 14:53:41




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 Re: Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to 300 Randy, 10-26-2001 11:47:24  
Speaking of 300 utilities a friend of mine from the city was looking for an old tractor to use on some land he had just bought so I went with him to look at a 300U with a front loader. The old tractor didn't look too bad but shortly after he bought it the loader's external hydraulic pump went bad. Had to tear the whole front off the tractor to fix it. I felt bad and helped him, he got so enthused over the thing that next thing I knew he went to Case IH and came back with new gauges, new seat cover , steering wheel spinner and all sorts of neat stuff. He got hooked on that old tractor and is always rebuilding and improving one thing or another on it and is now asking advice on painting it. The bug has bitten him.

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J. D. Humm

10-26-2001 14:55:16




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 Re: Re: Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to J.D. Humm, 10-26-2001 14:53:41  
By the way-his name is Randy also!



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marvin

10-26-2001 08:18:33




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
For me it is the smell of fresh turned soil. Sometimes you just need to get out on the tractor and move some soil and get some work done. My kids do not understand why I have the tractors and go out doing the farming thing as they call it. However I do have one son that will go our and get on the tractor to calm his nerves and go clear some land. I am afraid that I am going to have to go buy some more property soon so that he will have more to clear. But then I will need a two bottom plow and then calcium in the wheels and then a W6 to pull it and then TD9 to push stumps and then more acres to justify having the equipment and a W9 to pull the 14 foot disk and then ..... .... I betteer stick with the Super A and the H.

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Mark

10-26-2001 07:15:06




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
I just bought my super c 3 weeks ago and I already enjoy just driving it around. I took my 2 girls for a ride around the circle drive (1 at a time) and they loved it too. I know that is not the safest thing but I only did it once. I got a small wagon to pull that they can sit in next time.



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PatM

10-26-2001 06:13:31




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
I only put cows on our 40 acres so that I'd have an excuse to get a tractor to move big bales of hay, found a '43 M with a loader.

The beauty of the deal is that along with the therapy you can actually accomplish something "useful"!



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RedTed/MO

10-26-2001 04:50:35




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
There actually is a very sound and scentific psychological explanation for this wonderful phenomenon. (Remember, friends, I do psychotherapy for a day job). But the explanations I get from you all are more fun and make more sense: we do it because it works,... better than Prozac! RedTed/MO.



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MJD

10-26-2001 00:16:17




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
Hey - and.....you know what is better than having one running...thats 2!! I like to go in the quonset and start our '48 Super A, and then to the gas 350 and get her goin' then open the big doors, walk outside, and a-thinkin' ..... gee...that is great ! Sounds like spring and all is rarin' to go!! Got to get enough of them for all the family to each have one of their own. Thats the next step..... ...

mjd

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Tom L.

10-25-2001 20:51:54




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
I completely understand where you are coming from. After a rugged commute, nagging boss, and what ever else the day throws at me, all I have to do is spend a few minutes with my W-6 and the rest of the world just disappears! I have put an alarm clock in my shed just to remind me that I must go to the house and go to bed. Other wise I would be out there til the sun comes up. I know,"And the problem is?"

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Glenn(WV)

10-25-2001 20:14:27




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
You're right there with the rest of us! :-)



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Dave G

10-25-2001 18:26:21




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
Great Post - I made my wife read it to assure her that I'm not the only one who has to go to the pole building and start my tractors and hear them run. I think it is a great thing - better than other outlets. I've thought about it a lot and what makes things important to somebody is the about of work they put into something - true appreciation.



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ScottyNY

10-25-2001 17:31:02




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
I was gonna be the Scotty with the capital S, but that seems a little Snooty, so I'll own up to the NY. My own case of our Farmall illness stems from the summers I used to spend on Grandpa's BN (that's what I learned to drive on) his H and 400. Did a long spell up in Maine before moving to the cradle of American agriculture, New York, NY. What makes life livable here is having forty acres in the Catskills to work on (weekends and odd evenings). My Sweet knew I was looking for a tractor and would, bless her heart, on occasion, come home all out of breath to tell me about one she saw for sale--always gray or green. I knew she wouldn't understand that color was a problem, but fortune always smiled and I was always able to come up with other problems with her finds. THEN I happened across a 51 SuperC with a fersale shingle hanging off it, and with a lot of help from Bermuda Ken and Glen Mlarnik, spent the past summer tearing the old dear down. It was 6:48 am on September 2 that I put spark and gas together at the same time. Ran in right away and woke My Sweet up to listen to the tractor music. First thing I do when I get up north every week is to fire the old darling up. I'm all set for winter and other work with my rear blade, been pulling old posts with a chain through the rear wheel spokes, planning on a post-hole digger for spring (My Sweet's bought a horse, need some paddock fence), am gonna need (not want) a disk and drill to get the pasture back in shape. Don't know how I've lived this long without a tractor of my own. When I had the block on a stand, the rods all laid out waiting for new pistons and the crank out to be ground, Sweets asked me if this was all really worth it. I pointed out that between what I spent on the tractor, parts and large tools, I still wouldn't have as much in the Super C as I paid for that fancy riding mower. That didnt even factor in the joy of the rebuild. And now that she's running? Nothing compares. We all know about those trips down the lane or out the road the the other guys are talking about. On those trips a lot of the things wrong with this old world semm to fall into their proper perspectives. Tractor music!

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scotty

10-25-2001 18:00:32




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 Re: Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to ScottyNY, 10-25-2001 17:31:02  
Scotty NY,
Good post enjoyed reading it.My grandparents had
a small dairy farm about 85 acres in Livingston
Manor in the Catskills.God I enjoyed going up on
the farm when I was a boy, quess I still am,I
drive around on my red tractor loving every minute!Good luck with your C.
scotty



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Chums5

10-25-2001 16:53:08




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  

Ya know I have all gassers in my shed and this spring I bought a 350 Diesel and restored it for show and just goofing around..... and I just like to hear that thing run....can't go more then couple days and just have to go out and fire her up..... .



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scotty

10-25-2001 15:43:58




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
299,
sounds pretty normal to me I do the same thing!!
scotty



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Andy Martin

10-25-2001 15:22:40




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
There is no cure.

I quit an engineering career from a management postion to farm full time with my M's.

After a 12 hour day in up to 105 degree heat I still like to take an M down the road with no implement in the cool of the evening wide open in road gear, standing up. A real bugs in the teeth experience. In my normal two mile jaunt I meet one or two cars and realize most of them feel sorry for me because I don't have a big green tractor with an air-conditioned cab like the neighbors. Our little red secret just makes me grin all the more.

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J.D. Humm

10-25-2001 15:14:17




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
This applies to me as well. All I have to do is drive one of my tractors down the lane and back and all is well with the world once again.



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The Red

10-25-2001 14:47:23




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
Sounds normal to me!!!!! !!!!



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Indiana Jones

10-25-2001 14:17:36




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 Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Bigtime299, 10-25-2001 14:05:48  
Only one thing better... watching the paint dry on your newly restored Farmall while sipping your favorite brew!



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Ol Plow Boy

10-26-2001 06:22:50




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 Re: Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Indiana Jones, 10-25-2001 14:17:36  
Do you guys think it's the birthing thing? the Ladies have children that they carry around for 9 mo.then watch em' grow. Well we give REBIRTH and proudly watch em' run and OH the sounds they make.
Now I love my children, BUT the sound of an enging pullin' full throttle, pipe and manifold glowing red and the smell of fresh tilled earth jus' brings goose bumps to my body,And yes if you gotta' splain' it,they will never understand!! I thank the lord for the ability to enjoy the simple things in life, and a country that is second to none!

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Evan

10-26-2001 18:25:28




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 Re: Re: Re: Farmall Therapy! in reply to Ol Plow Boy, 10-26-2001 06:22:50  
I'm 14 nad have a fully restored and rebuilt '47 m.

What i like to do is after the beans are out is to drive out in the field with the Case 3 by 15" plow on rubber, drop in 3rd and hold 'er wide open

Heeeee eeeee Hawwwww wwwww ww!!!!!



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