The OLD GUYS

The old forum  was the good ole days Don.  

I first posted in 2000 but under some made up name I can't remember. I posted about when my uncles and grandpa watched their first demo of a WD45 against a John Deere 60 pulling a farmer's plow. I've retold the story a couple times since. The farmer was my grandpa's neighbor who was considering a new tractor so the two local dealers met up in his field each with a tractor and took turns using the farmer's plow and the rounds were timed. It took place at Oslo, Minnesota, the southern Oslo not the northern. Yes there are two Oslo's in Minnesota!! I'll give one guess as to which tractor came out on top by a country mile.


Edited by Lonn - 22 Dec 2016 at 11:31am

I had to look and see when I got involved with this 'gang'...Sept of 09...and yes I do remember the before site. It has been long enough that I do not remember much but I think the present is a little easier to use...I think.

Sure have made alot of good friends around the country from this site !!!!!

I started here in 98 or 99, whenever we got our first puter, there was a fellow named Gordon Chance that knew a lot about AC an a few others that aren't here or I don't see

Lonn wrote: I first posted in 2000 but under some made up name I can't remember. I posted about when my uncles and grandpa watched their first demo of a WD45 against a John Deere 60 pulling a farmer's plow. I've retold the story a couple times since. The farmer was my grandpa's neighbor who was considering a new tractor so the two local dealers met up in his field each with a tractor and took turns using the farmer's plow and the rounds were timed. It took place at Oslo, Minnesota, the southern Oslo not the northern. Yes there are two Oslo's in Minnesota!! I'll give one guess as to which tractor came out on top by a country mile.

Boy, that was a long time ago!, when I joined the old site I bet there wasn't more than 10-15 people that posted regularly!
Lots of people and time under that bridge! Seems like it was 97-98? When I found it and joined.

'old guys'...gee thanks a lot ! though after shovelling what Shamless gave me the other day, yeah, I feel old.....
 Well I'm one...gotta be only had ONE D-14 in 2000...now have 4 !
Best bunch of guys on the web are HERE !!

Jay

Like most of the guys that Joined this new forum back in Oct or Sept of 2009 I found the old forum back in 1989 or so and then when we lost the good old one I got logged on this new fanged one on 12 Sep 2009 at 7:05amand boy did I hated trying to get a handle on all the new stuff this one had, I was so lost and well maybe I'm still lost. lol
Back in the olden days you get on and check for a new post and not see one new post for days but when a new one was posted you read and reread it just because it was new.
That was back when old Freddy, Steve and that bunch of good guys had a ball picking on each other over the funnest stuff, I'd laugh my butt off. I made lots of GOOD friends on the old one and now this one. I do miss the old guys going at it like the old one had. lmao


Edited by Don(MO) - 22 Dec 2016 at 6:21pm

I'm going to go with "middle aged," but old poster. I was on the old forum back in the nineties. Eldon is about the only other one I remember from waaaaaaaay back. I think I found the forum through the old allis news, or else I discovered the old allis news off this forum. Can't remember which way it was, but both are a good find. Darrel

Brian Rees was from Austrailia and on the old forum, if only I could remember the builder from NW Lwr MI. I think he hd a tree farm. 

I guess I'd qualify as one of the "old Guys" as I've been on here since sometime in late '98.  Had one of those green things back then but it soon went away!  Made a lot of friends on this forum over the years; some I've personally met and others not yet!

Best site on the web and it's good to be part of the "orange family"!

I was also in tbe old forum. Remember that there was some who thought it was like the end of the world and Darin a actually kept the old one up and running for quite a while after this site was up and going. I was here in the fall of 1999 and beside the home page that came up on the browser that old site was my very first Internet page visited. My very first post was for the head gaskets I had reproduced for the Model A tractors and I sold them quite briskly for several years until I trasferred the buisness to Norm Minert and Larry Swenson



Edited by Butch(OH) - 22 Dec 2016 at 9:12pm

I remember the old forum, especially the chat room..Man, some nights my sides would be hurting

john(MI) wrote: I was a regular on the old forum.  I think from the start, or close to when Darin birthed it.  I see that I joined this one in Sept 09, so that would have been when the other died.  I'm thinking I started searching the internet for AC around 96 if I'm not mistaken, so I would have found the old site after that, but can't narrow it down much more than that. I remember  that there were not a lot of questions, but when there was a new one, nearly everybody posted a reply to it. There were a couple of other guys on here from western MI.  I can't remember their names, one did some auctioneer, and the other built custom houses.  They either quit here or changed their usernames.  They were helpful guys.