Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Brian M]

Seen on another forum I thought this had to be posted here

An old English farmer had spent his life collecting tractors: every time one broke down irreparably or became hopelessly out of date, he refused to sell it, instead keeping it in a large barn. He even bought used tractors from other farmers. He worked on them and polished them, treating them like museum exhibits.

Eventually it came time for him to retire, and he decided to sell off his massive collection so that he could live comfortably with his wife in a nice country cottage. So he put advertisements in local and national papers, and waited. He didn't have long to wait: a few days later he received a letter from a visiting American businessman, whose company had built some of the tractors mentioned in the advert and who had an interest in old vehicles himself.

After a couple more letters the two arranged to meet in the farmer's local pub on the coming Saturday. That evening came and the businessman arrived. Despite the heavy clouds of pipe smoke, and an hour passed in most pleasant conversation, the pair turning out to have much in common. "Well," sighed the farmer eventually, "I haven't had such a good yak for a long time, but I suppose it's about time we got down to business, eh?" "Sure," replied the other, "but maybe we could go somewhere else? Y'see, I'm findin' it kinda hard to concentrate with this much smoke."

"Ah, there's no need for that", said the farmer, "watch this!" He then proceeded to take an amazingly deep, deep breath, sucking in every last particle of smoke in the room. Then he leaned over to the partially open window behind him and blew all the smoke out into the night. "Hey, how the heck did you manage that?" gasped the American. "Oh, it was nothing; you see, ..............





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I'm an ex-tractor fan."


Well I didn't say it was that funny!

[Scotty]

[buzzy bee]

Hi

Well actualy that has got my sense of humour on the head, I like that one, hehe

Cheers

Dave

[Uncle Joe]

Good grief! A southerner with a sense of humour. What is the world coming to?

I wonder if anyone wants to hear a true story (which I think is funny, but then my sense of humour is strange) about a restorede grey Fergie?

[Brian M]

Come on UJ - you've got to tell us.

[admin]

grey fergie eh? niiice (although I still fancy a Cropmaster)

Rick

[buzzy bee]

Hi

I don't have enough time to tell you what I like and don't like in the agricultural sector! I think I would be the farmer on the first post on this thread.

Cheers

Dave

[Uncle Joe]

Well the story goes like this. Before I start it, I would like to point out two things. It was funny at the time, and it was related over a few cans of Tetley's bitter!

A long standing friend, I'll call him Welding Rod, who is probably the best mechanic and welder that I have ever met, has been restoring vehicles for many years. The thing about him is that he always restores them to USE. When he retired, he moved to a place on the coast, and bought a small boat. Initially, he used a Zetor tractor to tow the boat to the beach, and launch it. When the Zetor was falling apart, he found a Grey Fergie that had been standing in a field, and restored it to absolutely perfect condition. I'm deliberately leaving out one point here

When it was finished, he decided to exhibit it at a local show. The first part was to drive it round an arena. Here, the commentor was heard to say things like 'I've never heard a grey Fergie run so well, just like it was new, a credit to the owner' and so on nothing but praise. The next stage was the detail judging or whatever it was called. Again the Fergie got high praise. Welding Rod's Fergie won its class!

Then, just as the Trophy's were about to be presented, a spectator noticed an adaptor between the engine and gearbox, which got my friend disqualified. Why? The adaptor was to mate the Zetor motor (painted Fergie grey) to the Fergie 'box!

Well, as I said, it was funny at the time, but maybe not so now!