The OLD GUYS

Chuck(ONT) wrote: 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.

Brad Hopgood built houses. Hasn't been here for a long time.Not sure he was on the new version. I had his email and asked him how things turned out for his daughter(brain cancer?) because hadn't heard from him on forum for long time.He replied and said all was well,that everything turned out good.That had to be several years ago now. I met him and his wife in Booneville GOTO 2006.

   I trolled on here for years until Ryan convinced me to join one day. Back then Charlie Tucker and Jeff Z were the main posters.   And back then, I remember Jeff Z taking anybody who posted "NORMAL" talk in the farm equipment to "TASK" because that was only allowed in shops and varmints.

Edited by Auntwayne - 22 Dec 2016 at 10:41pm

ILGLEANER wrote: 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.  John the house builder your thinking of was  Brad Hopewell  if I remember right.

Brad and Jan Hopwood from northern MI.

I came on here in '98, had a couple of D19 diesels to my name. Had no idea what a B or C was as I grew up on WD45 diesels....learned a lot in a few years, and my collection grew to close to 100 tractors and almost as many implements.

Lots of info in those early years, a few fights along the way, also!

A Simplicity dealer at Bluffton Ohio told me about this site and simple tractors.com when I was looking for a part in 2007. He has since closed the business. I'm still here but don't post much.

I didnt realize that the page had existed that long, but I was a bit late in finding the internet. Sometime in mid 1999 I had just been installed as President of the company I still run to this day and they put a brand new computer on my desk and the controller said it had Internet access and I said so what? what does that do? She said there is things on there to look at and I said like what?  She said what interests you? I was just starting to restore Dad's model A and I said Allis Chalmers. She showed me how to dial up and on some long forgotten search engine it came up with this page, or she may have typed it in the address bar, too long ago.  So if I ignore the search page I can say this site is the very first web site I ever visited, How many can claim that??? LOL

Link provided here is to a snap shot of the old Forum from 2000. Many names there I had forgotten about. Ted Buisker is still around and kicking we just got a Christmas card from him and Sue and also Brad and Jan Hopwood.

A look at what this place looked like 16 years ago

http://web.archive.org/web/20001018042353/3000toys.com/allischalmers/forum/forum_list.asp?


Edited by Butch(OH) - 23 Dec 2016 at 6:14am

LSilseth wrote: 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. The John Deere 60   LOL

Yyyeaaahhh....... not

Don(MI) wrote: Dang....thats an awesome pic Butch! Good memories! Those were the years that if anyone could post a picture you were really doing something! I would post pictures today but haven't made time to figure out how again! LOL

First picture of mine that got posted here was like #10 or so on the old photo archive. I had no idea how to do it so I got a copy made at Wall Mart and sent it via slow mail to Dave Bowers in Phoenix AZ and he scanned it and posted it for me, LOL 

Is Ted Buisker still around?

I've been on here since the very late 90's but I have had to reboot several times and have had several different names but it was fun

Not sure when I joined, I think in '09 was when it switched?? I was here about 2 years before that + or -. I do remember a few of the past members, Barb was one, allways very helpful if ya needed computer help, and the guy that did babbit bearings, that not a issue to talk about??

Yes Mike I got it backwards it's not 1989 it was 1998. I can't remember that far back in time but can remember You where on the old forum too. lol

Your guess may be wrong! I was on the old forum. 

I joined in 98 or 99 also.  I remember they started a string on how everyone chose their screen name for the forum.  I replied that I wanted to use "Ted Buisker" but some other goober was using it so I let mom pick one.  That got a few comments.  I mentioned to a new member how great the Pennsylvania guys were and the Southern PA boys talked with a West Virginia accent.  That started a minor range war. I had to apologize, but it wasn't my fault cause I didn't realize they could read.

I just ask my lady and she said we were Windows 95 when we joined. Maybe 96 or 97. Gateway computer in the cow painted box. I remember Okie Boy. He could make you laugh until you cry. 

I miss BR's posts from down under. Pretty girls, fast cars and that crazy two legged horse some how made their way here thanks to him. He loved the USA more then some that live here today.