Guys?

I hope everyone had a fine Christmas and is optimistically looking ahead to the New Year.

We asked this question a couple of years ago and, because it?s been awhile and because of all of the new ?faces? on the board, I thought it might be fun to try it again.

The question is, very simply, where do you live? No, don?t put your street address on the internet but if you could give your state and maybe the area within your state that you call home it makes it a bit easier to ?get to know? you. For instance, I live in the south-east part of Michigan?s lower peninsula in what we here call the ?thumb?. A quick look at a map explains the thumb designation. I?m 75 miles north of Detroit and 35 east of Saginaw. We do a lot of beans, sugar beats, beef and dairy with corn and grain to support the beef/dairy around here.

Alright, what about you? Where do YOU live?

Moultrie, Georgia.. It's in the Southwest portion of the state.. Big area for Cotton, peanuts, and fresh vegies..!!

Clyde Scott

Bloomington, Indiana. South Central, 60 miles south of Indianapolis. John T

Middle of Iowa.....50 miles north of Desmoines and 14 west. Farm and operate a manufacturing business

Do I really have to answer this?????

Ha!

Originally from Ohio (NW of Dayton) and now and since 1994, Tallahassee, FL, just below Clyde Scott. If you visualize Florida being the numeral "7", we're on the side of the where the two lines connect. Tallahassee is the state capital and the home of Florida State University and Florida A&M University.

Middle of Iowa, 50 miles East of John P.

Deer Park, WA, north of Spokane. Alfalfa and grass hay and some grain are most prominent crops. Mike Reiter

My real name is Wayne, and I live in 'Wayne' county Tennessee, about 100 miles due south of Nashville on the Tn.-Al. state line. I get a personalized car tag without having to pay extra. He he ....

I live in Central Oregon...high desert country.

Princeton, Texas. 40 miles North of Dallas, near McKinney. Retired from Southwestern Bell ( was AT&T, then Southwestern Bell, then SBC, now AT&T again) in 1999. Was big cotton country but is now more grain. My name is Charles Webb.
CLW

I live in Eastern Central Kansas. I will be retiring from working at a nuclear power plant on January 2, 2004. I putter around on 320 acres of Kansas Flint Hills in my spare time, which should be all the time very soon.

Roy

I live in S.W. Wisconsin 10 miles south of Wis. Dells. This area has alot of tourism as well as ag. Many farmers here have quit dairy and gone to beef and corn and beans . I am a retired cable splicer and worked for Wisconsin Bell (now SBC). We have a small place with 59 acres a few herefords and John Deeres. Thanks for posting the question Putt Putt. Happy holidays to everyone.
Larry D

East Central IL The two main crops in this area are corn and soybeans follow but oats, wheat and alittle bit of hay the livestock has almost come to a end right in My area .I was born and raised a farmer ( Dairy,swine)but Dad sold the milk cows after all the boys where moved out then I got out of the hog bussness in 1999 when prices hit rock bottom now I work in a plastic fractory 2/1/58 birth date

70D

Putt Putt, this was a great idea. In reading the various entries, I?ve often wondered where the writers were located.
I live in Trenton, New Jersey.
My front lawn is about 50 by 25. That?s feet, not acres. At a yard sale , I bought a John Deere STX 38 lawn tractor. On a good day it takes me about 5 minutes to cut the lawn.
Going on the theory that bigger is better, on E-Bay I entered a bid for a 1948 A. never dreaming that mine would actually be the high bid. The good news was that I won. The bad news was that the tractor was in Oklahoma.
After talking to a couple of trucking companies, I realized that it was going to cost me three times what I paid for the tractor to get it home.
To make an extremely long story short, a friend ( you know you have a friend when they are ready to fly to Oklahoma to help you stuff a tractor in a U-haul truck) and I had the adventure of our lives getting the tractor home.
Just a postscript. The tractor actually ran in Oklahoma but so far in New Jersey it barely turns over. Possibly could be the toxic waste.
It?s snuggly under cover for the winter but expect a lot of questions come the spring.

Old Bob

I have lived north of Atlanta for the past 20 years. I grew up in Indiana (Kokomo area), Lived in Northern Vermont for 10 years and plan to retire to a farm east of Charlotte NC in about 5 years.

This post wouldn't be any fun unless I stepped in it! Woodchuckville is actually a small (12acre) plot in the high tax section of Athens Twp. Bradford County Pa. I built on the backside of the farm I grew up on. Mom & Dad were my neighbors for years until they moved to the Tioga Point Cemetery (no tax section of town). I've been around Deeres for the majority of the past 43 years and have several in as many stages of runability sittin' around the "farm", wife, 2 teenagers (ours) and 3 dogs (you'd think I worked in a dogfood factory) oh yea, that's right I do (my real job)! In the other life I fabricate high end stainless steel exhaust parts for most all antique tractors and have been forced to expand ever further in to other custom fabricating areas. Un-intentional hobbies seem to be p--sing people off that wait too long for their stainless order (dogfood still pays the light bill) and generally rubbing people who "know everything" the wrong way. (no college degree so I don't know any better) (haven't been taught what I'm "not capable of doing", so I just do it) Otherwise on the rare occasion I do get to tinker a hobby, It's usually "defered" maintenance on one of my "toy" cars or trucks.

I live south of Oxford,Ohio, home of the Miami University Red Hawks. We are 25-30 miles N.W. of Cincinnaiti. I am retired from Ohio Deptment of Transportation as a survey crew leader. Work with a lot of youth organizations, FFA, Butler County Farm Bureau youth, Jr. fair sheep advisor, State Dad for FCCLA ( Family Career and Community Leadrs of America) all these kids keep me young and I care about their future. Wife is a Work and Family teacher and is my best friend
Farm ground is going to a lot of houses., price of ground is high here.

Phil Foutz

Live in north Louisiana (Doyline). They grow cotton,beans and corn anound here but I am to Old and lazy. I grow PINE TREES.

I live in Miami County Indiana. I live on 8 acres in the house that my grandpa built new in 1948. I have been here since the fall of 1990. I teach machine trades at the area vocational school in Wabash. I have a 1937 A, a 1941 B, a 1946 A and a 1953 model 50. I sold my 70 diesel this fall. I also have several plows, a KBA wheel disk, a model H spreader and a no. 5 mower. I use my 50 to plow and disk the garden. I have a 2 year old grandson that is an avid John Deere fan. I have twin grand daughters that were just born Dec. 7th. I am 57 years old and grew up around an early styled B and A and a 60 and a G. I love all the 2 cylinder tractors. My name is Don DeWald

From Putt Putt's, go about 60miles @170deg. 2nd house from the corner. pBm, Detroit.

I live in the North East, in New Hampshire. I'm about 10 miles from the coast and about 15 from the nuke plant.

In the heart of the "Corn & Soybean belt", 50 Miles west of Waterloo, Iowa, where the greatest tractors the world has ever known, have been built for the last 80 yrs or so!!!!!
I've farmed exclusivly with John Deere Tractors since I started in 1959.
Never seriously considered using anything else!

Nw Iowa 50 miles west Fort Dodge 80 miles east of souix City Corn & Beans Dick C

My name is Glen Perry , I live in good ol EASTERN OKLAHOMA , near the town of CHECOTAH and on the shore of LAKE EUFAULA. We have mostly cattle ,wheat soy beans and small grains and JOHN DEERE TRACTORS . I have several johnnies , namely A ,AO ,B , 50 ,7O. I have found a love for the propane tractors. I try to raise a few water melons but the deer ate them all this year .Actually I run a 1966, 110 more than any of the others , But nothing sounds better than the two cyl. with a straight pipe . I;m retired and don't do nothing but eat ,sleep,hunt ,fish and work on them darned ok tractors . KEEP EM POPPIN, GLEN

My tribe and I live in south west Missouri, North of Joplin, just outside of a little town called Purcell. This area is in between two rivers, with alot of really good farm land. Lots of soybeans, corn, wheat, and pasture. Lots of cattle. My place is a 5ac. of woods on a long lane that i cleared and tamed with my JD MT.
Still have to fence it and always cutting wood or some project. We have 5 kids, two grown, three at home.
My wife is my best freind and loves to get on the tractor. She helps work the place and is quite mechanicly inclined. I am a electronics tech at a local food manufacturing plant.


Spud in Mo

Just north of Tampa, Florida is where we live now, but Indiana was, is, and always will be HOME. My ancestors settled near where "1946A" lives back in 1837, and I've got relatives, inlaws, and outlaws all over north central Indiana. We have a small cottage up there that we use often, just so we can breathe some good Hoosier air.

I live in central Iowa 9 miles north west of Desmoines. I live on a 40 acre acrage i call a farm.(ha ha) I retired from John Deere after 30 years but recently they called me back to work for them. Not too bad a gig full retirement and they pay me my old wage. I have a 1953 model 70 gas that i bought when i retired no power srteering but i am getting stronger arms from running it though.I guess i should tell you that i am an inspector for deere so if you bought a grain drill,high cycle sprayer, cotten picker and it had something wrong with it is my fault. lol

I live in Porterfield, Wisconsin. about 60 miles north of Green Bay.
I live on a part, of the farm, that has been in our family since 1878, my Great, Great, Grandfather bought the place..
First John Deere on the farm was a 1951 B which my Dad bought new.
I remember the day we got it well, even though I was only 3 years old.
I have a
1939 B, flat spoke wheels, flat top fenders, round spoke front wheels.
1941 B, I think, hard to read the numbers.
1948 A,
3020 Diesel
I work in town, and farm, dairy,then beef for a while, now I just cash crop.
I enjoy using the two cylinders, if the job can be done with them,
I use them before the 3020.
Buck

Howdy from the Republic of Texas! I am Chuck Garner - We live deep in the Heart of Texas about 18 miles East of Austin. ('Bout in the middle between George W's place near Crawford and his Dad' place near Houston - W is a big Deere Fan as well!) I recently had to sell a couple of my favorite Deeres 320S & Centerfill B but still have my 40H, BR, 4020PS and a few others. I bleed Green but also have a few AC Gs (such odd little critters) and my first tractor, an old BF Avery. We run a few cows and grow some hay and raise a couple of younguns on 45 acres on the Great Blackland Prairie. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes to all and yours for the New Year!

I live southwest of Flint Michigan in Swartz Creek on 7 acres, 5 acres are hay. I own a GX 325 (still a 2 cyl!) and dad has a '50 B that is used on our farm in Delphos Ohio (west of Lima). I am a test engineer for a major axle supplier...if your GM truck axle broke...sorry. I drive a Ford truck. Married and one on the way. Corn, wheat and soy beans near me. I want a 2 cyl diesel but need a barn first. John R.

Gentlemen;

I am a PA native, but for the last 16 years the Navy has kept me mostly in Coronado, California, and Norfolk, VA. My wife and I are currently completing our tour in Great Lakes, IL (North Chicago) amd then Back to Norfolk in March to be with her folks. My adopted folks live in Shannon, IL with the majority of the "KIDS" Mom's '37 D, and her '42 A, Dad's '37 A and B, '49 A w/45 loader, '47 and '52 G's and my '50 G and '52 A are now back in VA as we will be moving soon. Oh by the way, Santa brought me a #55 three bottom plow for Christmas!!
R/
Eric

Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mainly wheat here and some Canola. it suppose to be winter now, but it is a "heat wave" of -1?C. The white stuff and cold will come soon enough I'm sure.... I'm in cabinetmaking but love to tinker with anything old and mechanical. The "D' is slowly coming along...

D-Guy

Gentlemen;

I am a PA native, but for the last 16 years the Navy has kept me mostly in Coronado, California, and Norfolk, VA. My wife and I are currently completing our tour in Great Lakes, IL (North Chicago) amd then Back to Norfolk in March to be with her folks. My adopted folks live in Shannon, IL with the majority of the "KIDS" Mom's '37 D, and her '42 A, Dad's '37 A and B, '49 A w/45 loader, '47 and '52 G's and my '50 G and '52 A are now back in VA as we will be moving soon. Oh by the way, Santa brought me a #55 three bottom plow for Christmas!!
R/
Eric

Hello, My name is Pat O'Donnell. I live about 60 miles north of Indianapolis. My brother and I farm and grow corn, beans, a little wheat and are providing braces to our bankers children. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I live in north west NJ in Sussex County . I only have about three and a half acres in some of the best farm country in NJ. The area was mostly dairy and cows, but he change is going to houses.

I live in north east PA in sullivan county. I live on 30 acres which we make hay on and and raise horses. We have 2 730's gas and diesel, '53 50, '52 B, '41 LA, '52 R, and a '53 70 gas. Mostly use the 730 diesel since its good on fuel and has a 3pth. Sounds like Steve Crum lives closest to me about 45min to an hour.

Aaron

It looks like just me and Putt putt from Michigan, I am from lansing, right in the middle of the mitten. Corn beans and wheet is the main crop, some mint, mainely a lot of Cars, Lansing is known for General Motors and at one time The REO truck co.

Central Il, east of Pontiac. Corn and beans around here. Hardly any livestock at all. Fewer farmers every year. Farming is going the way of Wal-mart-----get big or get out of the way. I quit 2 years ago.
Still got my '58 720D pony start, and '59 730D elec. start
Bill A

Physical address is Midlothian Texas just south of Dallas, but actually a small community called Brittion that used to be all cotton, milo and wheat with some corn. Not much left of it now, only building standing is the old bank building and the community is surrounded by new housing developments and the farm land is all gone. I do still have the old home place that my grandfather purchased in the early 40s and pictures of his tractor repair shop that he had from 42 until the early 60s and of course farming while running his shop.
Kenneth
Classic Generator

I am Keith Eulrich, I live near Clintonville, Wisconsin which is about 30 miles
southwest of Green Bay. I have an 830 and a 430W but I don't farm. My dad has a 630, 730D and a 4000D and these are still used on a dairy farm.
I also have a Massey 202 with a loader that is used for snow removal.

My name is Denny. I live in Kenai, Alaska. It's about 40 miles straight line from Anchorage but 150 miles by road. I was born in California but came to Alaska in 1950 when my father homesteaded here. We still use the same jd420c today that we used in the early 60's. I've enjoyed this site because of the people (characters) here. Thank you all and Happy Holidays!!

I live in N. Central NC, USA. Tobacco is the cash crop here and pays the bills for farmers that raise cattle ,or most any other farming. Farms are small here and years ago tractors were small. I grew up on a "M" JD and a "40" JD. My neice's husband still has the 40 that my dad bought new in '54. I own a 435d that I bought in 1976 for $1100, wish I had bought more of them back then. ( I also have a old blue tractor ) I am retired from IBM . HAPPY HOLIDAYS Marv n nc

I live in Western PA about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh. Amazing how many of the board lives farther west. I would have thought there would be more in OH & MI....

SamV

Howdy all, My name is George Denys and I live in Delaware Co. New York. Old Dairy country. I have a 53' 40 and a 53' 70 gas. Both have factory wide front ends. I grew up with the 40. Had to add the 70 for fun. The 40 was the first thing I ever got behind the wheel of. Love my John Deere's.

Sanford ME. about 35 miles, south of portland.

Hi I'm in Enoree ,South Carolina.My family has lived here --well since myGGGG grandfather recieved a land grant from the King across the water.I have a 730 d and 2Gs.,3 caterpillars , an AC hd16 and a MRS190.I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas all the best Maxcy

I'm Ron Gardner, and a native New Yorker. I was raised in Navarino and now live in Lansing, New York. Lansing is in the southern teir of the Fingerlakes, and is about 4 miles north of Ithaca, the home of Cornell University. I spent 10 years in the midwest going to school in Michigan and Indiana. Worked in Indiana and Minnesota before returning to New York to be closer to mom and dad and brother.

[COLOR=green] I LIVE IN WESTERN NEW YORK ON A FARM OWNED BY MY FAMILY BOUGHT IN 1905 ,RENT THE LAND TO A REAL FARMER AND PLAY WITH AND RESTORE OLD TRACTORS

POP

I live in the town of Corydon, Iowa in wayne county. Im about 13 miles from the state line. Its about 70 miles south of desmoines. I see some other Iowans on here too. I grew up on a farm and am a mechanic by trade now. I work on a roving crew for a pipeline company and take care of work on the compressor engines at different locations. I have a 1950 model B and dad has a 1936 A that we play around with plowing and such. Grandpa had mostly deere stuff untill early 60s then the farm switched to IH power. The last Deere tractor was a 51 model A. It was traded for a 460 farmall. This was a good subject to post. I enjoy finding out where everyone else lives too.

Dan Allred

Wadena County Minn. A.K.A. Undeclared Waste Land

(home of Jack Pines and Tamaracks)