I remember it very well. Our John Deere dealer and his wife flew to Dallas along with just about every other John Deere dealer in the country to see the big roll out. It was a very well kept secret. A lot of fanfare and the John Deere company block men telling us that the crankshaft in a new Deere was 50 pounds heavier than "the red one". Those new 10 series tractors were not without their problems and we heard a lot of remarks about how John Deere had probably changed too much. The quoted price of a new 3010 JD in 1961 was $5400 which doesn't sound like much today but that was big money back then. You could buy two Ford 861s for that and have money left over. Our old John Deere dealer, who had sold tons and tons of As, Bs, and Gs, retired shortly after this time period and left us without a local John Deere dealer so when the move to larger tractors arrived it was International, Case, Allis Chalmers, Oliver, etc. that we saw most of. Guess what, though? Some of those old As and Bs are still putting around the neighborhood mostly doing light farm chores. I doubt that My 6125M will be still running in 2090 but who knows?
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Today's Featured Article - A City Guy's First Tractor - by Fred Hambrecht. After living in apartments in Atlanta for more years than I care to remember, the wife and I decided to move to the country. Humming "Green Acres is the place for me..." we purchased a 29 acre tract about 60 miles south of Atlanta. Next came the house, I could talk about that ordeal for another two weeks... But, I want to talk about my tractor! We didn't even own a lawnmower, and all of a sudden we had enough grass to feed all the starving children of the bovine world. Naturally, I talked
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