archives?

[Anonymous Poster]

Hello to all from a newcomer...soon to become a "first-time" tractorman. My compliments on conducting one of the most civil and friendly exchanges on the internet!
Would like to thank all of you for the wealth of information that you have contributed to this site. Over the past several months I have spent many hours "lurking" here, adding to my (previously non-existent) store of tractor lore.

Your knowledge and experience have been of immense help in forming a reasonably sound plan for investing a considerable portion of my long-awaited retirement funds in a tractor /attachments to use on my 20+ acres here in Oregon ( retired last december after 37 years as a firefighter). {Uh-oh! ..probably already in trouble with the sentence-length police!}

If I unchain my curiosity and interest fully, I am sure I would soon wear out my welcome (assuming such exists), and your patience... at least if I haven't made a sincere effort to find my answers in what has already been posted.

Which brings me to my question... HOW DOES ONE ACCESS THE "ARCHIVES" which I have seen referred-to a number of times in these forums? I have "clicked-on" everything in sight (I think) and can't seem to find my way to any such place.

If I've overlooked something obvious, I apologize for the needless question... but I'm out of ideas.

Thanks for any help,
Larry...

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Duh!... forgot to mention that I DID try the "old site" address given by Kevin, in his reply a few postings back.
I got a "url not found" response!?

Larry

 

[Anonymous Poster]

"If at first you don't succeed..."

Found the link that worked for me at the bottom of page 5 (Feedback and More)... titled "Info from Old Forum".

http://www.tractorbynet.com/tractortalk/

...lots more good stuff, for newbies who may not have seen it!

Larry

 

[Harv]

Larry -

Welcome aboard! Glad to hear from another west-coaster. You realize we get the final word in every day because of our retarded time zone. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I just became a tractor owner myself after months of picking the considerable brains of this board, so I share the gratitude you have expressed to these wonderful tractor folk. I am still impressed at the intelligence, civility and good humor of all who contribute.

Which reminds me -- now that you're not lurking any more, feel free to register so's we can get to know you and sneak a private message to you once in a while.

As for the archives, I just tested this link and it seems to work well enough for me:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/tractortalk

Can't wait to hear what tractor you wind up with, so please keep us posted.

 

[Thomas]

Larry, Welcome to the board,and please do jump right in w/ your questions and answers for that how we learn...and these gentlemen here will teach you more than a service or operator's manual can offer.

Have you decide what <font color=orange>tractor</font color=orange> you maybe interested in. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Oregon /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gifnever been to your state and I heard its wonderful. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif



Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

Thomas, I've only been to Oregon once myself (for two or three weeks); thoroughly enjoyed it, especially Canon Beach and the Tillimook cheese factory; beautiful mountains, beach, and forests in the west and west Texas like desert in the east./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Congratulations on the retirement, fireman!

Bird

 

[scruffy]

Bird, the difference between Texas desert and Oregon desert is the elevation. Oregon desert is considered 'High desert' and believe me, it can and does get mighty cold in the winter! Many parts of it will get down into the -30 degree range at times. Cold enough to freeze the proverbial well diggers rump.

 

[Bird]

I have no doubt you're right, scruffy, but the only time I was there it was very nice on the coast, but quite warm in the eastern part of the state (August). In fact, when I crossed into Idaho and hit I-84 and stopped at the first Rest Area for a map, the lady there asked where I was going and I told her "anywhere that it's cooler." She gave me a map and directions to the Sawtooth area; it was great!

Bird

 

[scruffy]

Bird, too bad you never cut across the central portion of Oregon (highway 20 for example), sure it can get hot, but it is a dry heat, and along the Gorge, (Columbia River) it has a tendancy to get into the 100's that time of year. South of there in the Cascades, it will be in the nineties, but can and normally once a month does have a freeze in the summer. Gardening is limited to root crops because of that, but is it nice sleeping weather! 95 in the daytime 40's at night!
Sawtooth's are nice, coast is nice (I grew up on the sw Ore. coast) but a hot day on the coast is 75-80 degrees and its liable to rain you out on the 4th of July! I've also seen it snow in mid july in Central Oregon, whoopee. Kids liked it.

 

[Bird]

Scruffy, I did take that route 20. We entered Oregon at Biggs (from Washington state), followed the Columbia River to Portland, then route 26 to the coast, spent a week in Canon Beach, then down the coast to Coos Bay, then cut across to I-5 and up to Harrisburg for a week to tour a motorhome factory, then to Bend and took route 20 through Burns and Ontario into Idaho. Very enjoyable trip.

Bird

 

[ERNIEB]

Larry, I'm fairly new here myself, but if there were sentence or spelling Police around they would have gotten me by now. Yes, this board is very different than most. Washington is as close as I've been to Oregon, and only a small part of Washington at that. Fort Lewis to be exact. eight weeks for BCT, and then again for about three days on my way to Vietnam. For a boy used to the South Texas plains, it was different. Anyway, welcome from a member of the small but growing <font color=blue>minority</font color=blue>.

 

[scruffy]

Bird, Coos Bay (just outside of) is where I grew up, and Bend was home for a number of years. We sold our home there, and own acreage down south (90 Miles ?) of there. I have relations darn near everywhere in Oregon! One side of the family immigrated to Oregon in the early 1850's and the other side in the 1930's. One brother ranches full time now (he's retired) over in eastern Oregon, one is in north central, and cousins coming out of the woodwork all over the place.

 

[Muhammad]

<font color=blue>If I unchain my curiosity and interest fully, I am sure I would soon wear out my welcome (assuming such exists), and your patience... at least if I haven't made a sincere effort to find my answers in what has already been posted.</font color=blue>

Well, in addition to the archives (and actually with the increasing number of posts in this current forum, the archives seem small at only 7000-8000 messages) you can search away @ http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/search.pl ... if you don't find what you or looking for, or do but not exactly, just post a message to the thread that almost covers your question/concern, and that thread will be put at the top of that forum list so all will view it on the first page. Or, just start a new thread... you'll get a similar result either way.

In any event, welcome and please do enjoy the forum and the info the members contribute.