John Deere?

[cheerful_deviant]

Ok, I don't get it.

What is the sudden infatuation with John Deere among the middle class? 10 years ago Deere made tractors and lawnmowers. Now they've suddenly become the suburban accessory of choice. Parents drag their kids around in wagons that are green and yellow and you can even decorate your house with a John Deere motif.

Case in point: Somebody just moved into one of the houses on the next street over. Before they had even unloaded the moving truck the husband was installing a bright green and yellow mailbox complete with a little tractor on top.

Am I missing something?

 

[cloudy]

John Deere has always been in fashion in this part of the country. The rest of y'all are just now catching up.

Our tractor, however, is a Massey Ferguson:
http://sunraytractor.com/images/tractor.gif

 

[cheerful_deviant]

John Deere has always been in fashion in this part of the country. The rest of y'all are just now catching up.

Our tractor, however, is a Massey Ferguson

The funny part is, around here almost all the real farmers use either Ford or Bellarus tractors because that's the big local dealer. Almost none use Deere.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

John Deere has always been in fashion in this part of the country. The rest of y'all are just now catching up.

Our tractor, however, is a Massey Ferguson:
http://sunraytractor.com/images/tractor.gif

Rock on. My family has always owned Massey, since they got their very first tractor back right before WW2. My grandpa has this philosopy that John Deere is a rich man's tractor and that it's always been considered a status symbol. So, he thinks all this John Deere merchandising is super annoying.

Most old farmers will tell you that any tractor is a luxury, because they can probably remember having to plow the old fashioned way as soon as they were old enough to drive the horses.

 

[cloudy]

John Deere Green
by Joe Diffie

They were farm kids way down in Dixie
Met in high school in the sixties
Everyone knew it was love from the start
One July in the midnight hour
He climbed upon the water tower
Stood on the rail and painted a 10ft heart
In John Deere Green

On a hot summer night
He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene
In letters 3 foot high
And the whole town said that he should have used red
But it looked good to Charlene
In John Deere Green

They settled down on 80 acres
Raising sweet corn, kids, and tomatos
They went together like a hand and a glove
On a clear day from their front yard
If you look and know what to look for
Off to the east you can still read his words of love
In John Deere Green

On a hot summer night
He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene
In letters 3 foot high
And the whole town said the boy should have used red
But it looked good to Charlene
In John Deere Green

Now more than once
The town has discovered
painting over it ain't no use
There ain't no paint in the world
That'll cover it, the heart keeps showing through
In John Deere Green

On a hot summer night
He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene
In letters 3 foot high
And the whole town said the fool should have used red
But it looked good to Charlene
In John Deere Green

Ahh paint it green boy
In John Deere Green

On a hot summer night
He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene
In letters 3 foot high
And the whole town said the boy should have used red
But it looked good to Charlene
In John Deere Green

 

[Dar~]

Thats one of my favoritest songs from middle school.

My grandfather had a Cat. I don't like John Deere decor. I don't like Coca Cola decor either. If I am advertising for someone, I want to get paid.

 

[Honey123]

I really don't know, C_D ~ Living in the Tri-State, I always thought a hummer was a blow job...

 

[Colleen Thomas]

My grand father lived next to the states biggest Deere dealership. His tractor was an ancient ford. Never owned anything by Deere, not that we were against them, just that they were nevr real affordable.

 

[TxRad]

Most old farmers will tell you that any tractor is a luxury, because they can probably remember having to plow the old fashioned way as soon as they were old enough to drive the horses.

Never plowed behind horses but I've followed a couple of mules asses for hours at a time.... My Grandfather had a team of blue black mules that were something else... they would out pull most tractors... He never owned a tractor, he thought they tore up a field to much... Mules were the only way to go for him...

 

[cloudy]

Never plowed behind horses but I've followed a couple of mules asses for hours at a time.... My Grandfather had a team of blue black mules that were something else... they would out pull most tractors... He never owned a tractor, he thought they tore up a field to much... Mules were the only way to go for him...

There's still a couple of old timers around here who plow their gardens with mules.

And when I say garden, don't picture something about 20 feet square - I'm talkin' at least an acre, acre and a half.

A team of mules will still go for more than a team of horses around here.

 

[TxRad]

There's still a couple of old timers around here who plow their gardens with mules.

And when I say garden, don't picture something about 20 feet square - I'm talkin' at least an acre, acre and a half.

A team of mules will still go for more than a team of horses around here.

My Grandfathers garden when I was a kid was more on the lines of 3 to 5 acres... anything under an acre was done with an old single wheel hand plow...

He was plowing a one acre garden with that damn hand plow at 98.....

I've never owned a tractor, John Deere or otherwise.. once I left the farm I've never looked back... Funny thing is, that I plow my little veggie garden out behind the shop with a certain old one wheel hand plow.... something about coming full circle... I think

 

[cloudy]

My Grandfathers garden when I was a kid was more on the lines of 3 to 5 acres... anything under an acre was done with an old single wheel hand plow...

He was plowing a one acre garden with that damn hand plow at 98.....

I've never owned a tractor, John Deere or otherwise.. once I left the farm I've never looked back... Funny thing is, that I plow my little veggie garden out behind the shop with a certain old one wheel hand plow.... something about coming full circle... I think

Well, we have a tractor, but we don't use it to plow. We bush hog with it, pull cross-ties, that kind of thing.

 

[blackhaus7]

We bush hog with it,

With a big enough muffler, you could bushwhack with it.

Now that's something I haven't thought of in years.

 

[AppleBiter]

Ok, I don't get it.

What is the sudden infatuation with John Deere among the middle class? 10 years ago Deere made tractors and lawnmowers. Now they've suddenly become the suburban accessory of choice. Parents drag their kids around in wagons that are green and yellow and you can even decorate your house with a John Deere motif.

Case in point: Somebody just moved into one of the houses on the next street over. Before they had even unloaded the moving truck the husband was installing a bright green and yellow mailbox complete with a little tractor on top.

Am I missing something?

Apparantly, I'm missing something too. There are little John Deere baby-T's for sale in the women's dept of most clothing stores, now. I never knew it came into fashion . . . hmm. *shrugs* I guess I'm out of the loop!

 

[TxRad]

Apparantly, I'm missing something too. There are little John Deere baby-T's for sale in the women's dept of most clothing stores, now. I never knew it came into fashion . . . hmm. *shrugs* I guess I'm out of the loop!

I'd guess you've never been to a tractor pull......

 

[AppleBiter]

I'd guess you've never been to a tractor pull......

Nope, and I'm in Kansas . . . something's wrong w/me.

 

[ishtat]

Real tractors

If you want a real mans tractor Google Lanz Bulldog A German monster from about 1930 to about 1955

If you want a ladies tractor read my poem "Orange Lady"

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

My grandpa ran with a Massey-Ferguson, and in the city, my father ran with Toro.

Now, Nothing runs like a Deere.

All that red being replaced with green and yellow!

It would make more sense if it had happened during the McCarthy Era — I mean Joseph, not Charlie.

 

[lil_elvis]

He's got John Deere cap
And a bad haircut
Kinda face
Only a momma could love
But he's a good man
He comes home at night

-Marty Stewart

 

[The_old_man]

I grew up with tractors, my father designed them.

The first I remember was the "Silver King" made in Plymouth OH.
Second was the"Ferguson" made in Detroit MI
Ferguson sold out to Massey Harris and Dad was chief engineer until his retirement in1966.

I went into electronics when I got out of the Navy.

 

[Xelebes]

Shouldn't we be concerning ourselves with the harvest next month instead of the ploughing?