G'day from Holland

[Fordmajor]

Just a small message from Holland as I am a new member. I found the site while I was searching for user experience on a Ford 3600. Not for myself though but for my neighbour who is about to buy one.
I myself run a 54 Fordson Major which I am perfectly happy with using the old bugger on our twelfe acres of land. I have got implements for the Major that all date back from the fifties. So we can cut grass and create bales of hay every year. We also grow potatoes on a small scale and harvest them with an old potatoemachine, that needs at least nine willing neighbours to help during harvest. Furthermore the Major has a small task to keep the training/area for the horses nice flat.
cheers AJ
fordmajor

 

[Brant]

Welcome and goedenavond . Both sides of my family have a significant lineage to the Netherlands. I very much enjoy the Dutch music scene. I have a neighbor with an old Ford 4000 and I've used it before. It's a rock solid old beast.

 

[creekbend]

Welcome aboard. Best wishes.

 

[mguitas]

:welcome:

 

[Bob77064]

Welcome

 

[The kid]

Welcome AJ to TractorByNet forums from Tennessee USA

 

[WilliamBos]

Hello and welcome aboard!! Hallo en welkom aan boord! My Dad and his family immigrated to Canada from Gronigen back in July 1957.

 

[stingray1]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Fordmajor]

Hello gentleman, thanks for the welcome. Nice to hear that family of the immigrants are still doing good and obviously have rooted. Some of the first generation never really do and come back after they retire.
That is a good looking MF 135 in Tennesee. Overhere the classic tractor scene is quite big. Our little rural village of 200 inhabitants is riddled with classic tractors. Might be fun to have a look at HAC Wezup - Home for an impression. The site should be updated again.
By the way, I sold the Cormick 436,
cheers
AJ

 

[kensnelling]

Welcome from Oklahoma.

Ken

 

[murph1]

Welcome aboard

 

[Brant]

Might be fun to have a look at HAC Wezup - Home for an impression. The site should be updated again.

I just checked it out and the pictures are really amazing and beautiful. Makes me want to come for a visit soon. I hoping to make it to Europe next year.

 

[Fordmajor]

Hello Brant
Might you make it to Holland then you are welcome to come and have look in our small village. Wezup is situated in the province of Drenthe which has a lot of rural country, forrest and rough land like heatherfields. As far as I am concerned the nicest province in Holland. Totally different from North- and South Holland where the big citys like Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam are located. No traffic yams overhere.
cheers
AJ

 

[Brant]

Hello Brant
Might you make it to Holland then you are welcome to come and have look in our small village. Wezup is situated in the province of Drenthe which has a lot of rural country, forrest and rough land like heatherfields. As far as I am concerned the nicest province in Holland. Totally different from North- and South Holland where the big citys like Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam are located. No traffic yams overhere.
cheers
AJ

That is much appreciated and I would love to do that. I just looked on Google satellite images of your area and it looks really nice. It's definitely not the picture of Holland most people have in mind. That's really more my kind of thing anyway, as the tourist areas never show you what a place of really like. As for the trip, NL and DE are at the top of my list for visits because of my family heritage from both countries.

 

[Fordmajor]

G'day Brant
You are right, most non-Dutch people think our small country has citys like Amsterdam and is littered with windmills.
Nice wonder of modern technique is'nt it? I also use Google earth for looking around in other countrys. Never been to Australia but I do know what the street and the house of our good friends overthere look like. Only twenty years ago a conversation like this was not possible. Either you would write a letter or pay a lot of money for a global telephone-call. My great-aunt lived in Chicago and we wrote letters to her and she sent letters back. Usually it took these letters a week to arrive.
Just curious, but from where in Holland did your family originate? .
cheers
AJ

 

[Brant]

G'day Brant
You are right, most non-Dutch people think our small country has citys like Amsterdam and is littered with windmills.
Nice wonder of modern technique is'nt it? I also use Google earth for looking around in other countrys. Never been to Australia but I do know what the street and the house of our good friends overthere look like. Only twenty years ago a conversation like this was not possible. Either you would write a letter or pay a lot of money for a global telephone-call. My great-aunt lived in Chicago and we wrote letters to her and she sent letters back. Usually it took these letters a week to arrive.
Just curious, but from where in Holland did your family originate? .
cheers
AJ

Yes AJ, Google Earth is great. When I travel any distance, I often like to use the satellite images and Streetview to confirm my destination's location on a map. Online maps and GPS (Sat Nav) seem to mess up too often for my liking. I'm a big music fan so sometimes I will check out a venue location in another country just for the fun of it. I'm not sure of your interest in Dutch contemporary music, but bands like Epica, After Forever, Delain, Ayreon, and others are some of my favorites. The mighty Floor Jansen (whom I had the pleasure of meeting last month in the US) is a personal favorite and considered one of the finest and most powerful sopranos in the world.

As for my family, unfortunately the Dutch-born members died before I was born so the info. is not perfect. They were from the southeast area near Germany around Weert and Roermond. When I was a kid, some of my German-born great aunts and uncles were still alive. They were from southern Germany in the Black Forest region near Switzerland.

It's been talking with you so far. Take care.

 

[Brant]

G'day Brant
You are right, most non-Dutch people think our small country has citys like Amsterdam and is littered with windmills.
Nice wonder of modern technique is'nt it? I also use Google earth for looking around in other countrys. Never been to Australia but I do know what the street and the house of our good friends overthere look like. Only twenty years ago a conversation like this was not possible. Either you would write a letter or pay a lot of money for a global telephone-call. My great-aunt lived in Chicago and we wrote letters to her and she sent letters back. Usually it took these letters a week to arrive.
Just curious, but from where in Holland did your family originate? .
cheers
AJ

Yes AJ, Google Earth is great. When I travel any distance, I often like to use the satellite images and Streetview to confirm my destination's location on a map. Online maps and GPS (Sat Nav) seem to mess up too often for my liking. I'm a big music fan so sometimes I will check out a venue location in another country just for the fun of it. I'm not sure of your interest in Dutch contemporary music, but bands like Epica, After Forever, Delain, Ayreon, and others are some of my favorites. The mighty Floor Jansen (whom I had the pleasure of meeting last month in the US) is a personal favorite and considered one of the finest and most powerful sopranos in the world.

As for my family, unfortunately the Dutch-born members died before I was born so the info. is not perfect. They were from the southeast area near Germany around Weert and Roermond. When I was a kid, some of my German-born great aunts and uncles were still alive. They were from southern Germany in the Black Forest region near Switzerland.

It's been great talking with you so far. Take care.