TroyBalunder
New member
- Joined
- May 9, 2012
- Messages
- 3
- Location
- Sacramento, Calif.
- Tractor
- Troybilt (Bolens-Gardenway-MTD) 13066
In other words, glad to make your acquintance. Remembering back when I was in Texas (yes...let me confess and be done with it)--Lubbock and Tech it was when I first noticed there are two forms of the greeting:
Howdy for the southern southerners (say, those "Texans" in areas descended from the old south, mostly "Tennesshee" (you know who you are); and
Hidee for the folks (many in the Texas south plains and panhandle) with folk speak lineage back to the more northern (Yankee and bushwacker) regions.
So I figure one of the two should work for just about anyone here; if not, then, Hello.
Now, about that "tractor" of mine. (The editor app's not working very well just yet so just imagine the little purple "embarrassed" smiley being right about...here.) Okay, maybe it's only just a little ol' riding mower going by the "tractor" name (from those days in the 80s when riding mower mfr's realized you could get a "tractor" (and lots more buyers) from a flat floorboard rear-engine riding mower, by more-or-less just turning around the seat, relocating the steering and adding a hood; and so be it if it still didn't really have much (real-tractor) traction for implement towing--or maybe even less than that rider. As long as that big hood gave that sense of straddling that old mule, it's a tractor by golly. Let the wife go climbing up the chain link sitting prettily with knees together on the "riding" mower with its teeny (but great for fence line) little front tires. Oh, but my little Bolens...it does have a tow-behind, roto-tiller (only two hitch points--but better than one) that can dig in: to maybe that will qualify me? Plus...
I did have an old Ferguson once (yes, that guy who gave us the three point hitch used ever since way back when...) and yes, I did have occassion (on grass and without farm jack or hoist, even) to split that tractor (yes, and re-join it) for a fairly thorough rehab. So maybe I can walk and talk with the real tractor people after all. So as I was saying:
Hello.
Howdy for the southern southerners (say, those "Texans" in areas descended from the old south, mostly "Tennesshee" (you know who you are); and
Hidee for the folks (many in the Texas south plains and panhandle) with folk speak lineage back to the more northern (Yankee and bushwacker) regions.
So I figure one of the two should work for just about anyone here; if not, then, Hello.
Now, about that "tractor" of mine. (The editor app's not working very well just yet so just imagine the little purple "embarrassed" smiley being right about...here.) Okay, maybe it's only just a little ol' riding mower going by the "tractor" name (from those days in the 80s when riding mower mfr's realized you could get a "tractor" (and lots more buyers) from a flat floorboard rear-engine riding mower, by more-or-less just turning around the seat, relocating the steering and adding a hood; and so be it if it still didn't really have much (real-tractor) traction for implement towing--or maybe even less than that rider. As long as that big hood gave that sense of straddling that old mule, it's a tractor by golly. Let the wife go climbing up the chain link sitting prettily with knees together on the "riding" mower with its teeny (but great for fence line) little front tires. Oh, but my little Bolens...it does have a tow-behind, roto-tiller (only two hitch points--but better than one) that can dig in: to maybe that will qualify me? Plus...
I did have an old Ferguson once (yes, that guy who gave us the three point hitch used ever since way back when...) and yes, I did have occassion (on grass and without farm jack or hoist, even) to split that tractor (yes, and re-join it) for a fairly thorough rehab. So maybe I can walk and talk with the real tractor people after all. So as I was saying:
Hello.
