A to Z what's next?

Been interesting to check the board for alphabetical tractor of the day. But looks like the well's run dry. Was fun while it lasted. Thanks to all who posted. We may have slighted a few tractors but got a lot. Thanks to all who posted.

Someone post the complete list, please.

Kornfused had a good idea ,we could go by alphabet where we are from,such as Alaska,or Argentina,,,etc each day

rr lund is at the top of the list with O day,he says Olivers rule!

Olivers say Olivers rule. It's not my rule.

(quoted from post at 16:36:32 10/22/12) rr lund is at the top of the list with O day,he says Olivers rule!

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Olivers rule?????? Didn't they like get took over and went away????? So IIRC they lead the way of the post 1970 buy outs and disappear acts.....ROFL! Actully I've had many people who are users tell me how good they are.....


Rick

Or just the name of your town alphabetically,without naming the state. Bet there's some towns out there with a real story behind how they got their name.

The town just north of me for example,Stanton now,named for some general or something,but originally it was named for a lumberman who was one of the first owners of my farm after it was deeded from the Federal Government. The guys name was Fred Hall,but the town wasn't called Hall,it was called Fred.
The name got changed to Stanton sometime later on.

How bout we all watch the debate tonight and in a calm, reasoned and meaningful way discuss it tomorrow.
wink

There was a LONG story behind that. Oliver had loaned money to White Motor Company and White never paid it back. When times got tough due to a down turn in the farm economy and Oliver wanted and needed the money back. Two corporate raiders by the name of the Mailman Brothers bought controling interest and almost immediately sold their interest to White,so what it ammounted to was White buying controlling interest in Oliver with Olivers own money. They probably would have still survived,but White Motors was in such bad shape that instead of putting new products out,like the Oliver invented and patented CVT transmission,White milked them as a cash cow and just continued to sell the old products. That's when Oliver started to slip.
Then the whole Oliver/Moline/Cockshutt battle started,with all three companies having their own management and all three wanting to be the big managers of the whole White Farm Equipment line,until White management stepped in and settled the whole battle by changing the name and color to something neutral.
The last nail in the coffin was when White Motors tried to sell the farm equipment division to White Consolidated. WC came in and stripped everything out from management to factories intending to do huge new things,but after they did all that,the Feds stopped the deal,said it would have given WC too big a monopoly in the farm equipment business because they owned a big share of Allis Chalmers at the time. That sent White Farm Equipment out as a stand alone company with no management,no equipment in their factories,no capital,no nothing. Of course then they were bought by Texas Instruments,New Idea and Agco.

That's a quick Readers Digest version of what happened,but a you can see,it wasn't because they had a poor product of a lack of excellent engineers.

good idea!

I like this idea. Larry


Glenn

Humptulips is near here. I have always been afraid to ask...

How about when you make the list place your reply next to someone from the same state.

start over

We could do numbers now. That'll occupy 9 days

here is a 10-20 i brought home