[Themaintainers] Tractor manuals

[Jody DeRidder]

Sounds like digitization of the old manuals could be useful. Maybe store them in the Internet Archive.

--jody


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>   1. Re: For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now
>      a hot commodity (Danny Spitzberg)
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> From: Danny Spitzberg <danny at peakagency.co>
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> If anybody wants a stack of repair manuals for various vintage tractor
> models, there are about 100 in a stack at a consignment shop in Morro Bay,
> California:
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> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM Eric Kaltman <ekaltman at andrew.cmu.edu>
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>> Article from Star Tribune on the desire for older, easier to repair
>> tractors.
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>> http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/
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>> ?Tractors manufactured in the late 1970s and 1980s are some of the hottest
>> items in farm auctions across the Midwest these days ? and it?s not because
>> they?re antiques.
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>> Cost-conscious farmers are looking for bargains, and tractors from that
>> era are well-built and totally functional, and aren?t as complicated or
>> expensive to repair as more recent models that run on sophisticated
>> software.?
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