bison said: (quoted from post at 07:04:01 11/27/14) Musta been pretty smaII farms and ranches in their day!.
Apart from the JD 4020's they ain't much of a tractor for serious work
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Your statement is not wrong if you look at it from a modern farming use perspective, but if you look at it from paying for farms then the list is pretty darned accurate. Back in the early 1930's or so roughly 80% of the population (in the USA) made their living in agriculture. Each following decade saw a roughly 10% decline in that number. Today maybe 2% to 3% live from agriculture.
Lots of land still in family's ownership hands from Farmall h's, Farmall M's, John Deere A's, John Deere B's, and the like. Many of the modern inheriter's do not even farm it yet they own that land do to inheritance and their ancestors using an old tractor like a Farmall and a JD putt putt.
As well as a JD 4020 sold it never came close to a Farmall h at 400,000 plus units sold.
Besides many of those old tractors are still fun to operate and play with as they affordable. I enjoy running all my old dinosaurs, but I admittingly do not want to try to make my living with them. Frankly with the uncertainty in farming, I do not want to attempt to make my living with any tractor whether a 4020 or a brand new one.
Since no one willed me a bunch of land then I consider my opinion totally unbiased. Now had I been willed a bunch of land as inheritance then I can certainly guarantee you that whatever crude and outdated tractor that paid for the biggest portion of my newfound inheritance would be my new all time favorite tractor -even if I chose not to personally use one or any tractor at all.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 11:19:53 11/27/14 4 times.
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