I live in a area with some large dairy farms, still making a go of it. Many have a collection of older: White, Case, I-H, M-F (that's Massey-Ferguson, for any of you Military types that are thinking "REMF" here- and many. many 1940-1960 era J-D 2 cylinder series. Some keep them for parts, some for sentiment, some for scrap iron--
One of my favorite of all these farms had a 1943 John Deere 2-lunger, either a B or an A series- believe it had a battery starter, besides the big exposed LH side flywheel starter- a bit rusty, but still running and doing a day's work on the farm. His late father bought it with the Gov't approval paperwork of the WW11 era for around $465.00 delivered. A "Collector" wanted it badly enough to pay him about 5 times that amount, cash folding money. Wowzer-- Do you think my friend declared a "Capital gain" and sent in a 1099 for to the Infernal Revenue Idiots with a check?? Not in a pig's patootie.. "Screw 'Em"!!!!
