Farm Equipment is to general a subject

It is getting so congested under this general heading that many members posts get lost in no time. Is it about time to consider breaking Farm Equipment down into more manageable size sub topics? Three that come to mind are Letter Series Tractors, Number series Tractors, and Implements of all kinds.

Also a combine forum??

I suggest two topics:
-Allis Chalmers Model B
-Everything else

Edited by 1939Dodge - 01 Sep 2015 at 5:52pm

I think everything ticks over pretty good on here as it is,no need to change.

Don't seem broke to me compared to the clusters on other sites, jmho, Trev.

Good grief, leave it alone. Read what you want and move on. Life is too short to be wining about a talk forum.

I like the variety of stuff.  It's easy to scan the titles and skip the ones that aren't interesting to me.  Prefer that to having to check several different forums.

EricPA wrote: victoryallis wrote: Topic is not too vague folks cannt seem to get post in the right place. The farm equipment forum has many for sales, look at my plow day, see my child/grandchild, we lost Bill he had a CA and so on and so forth.   It would be nice if moderators cracked down more on this.   The folks on Agtalk seem to self police this better.   Plain and simple if it's not directly about a peice of farm equipment I doesn't belong here.   Simple enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kinda like this post! Should've been in "forum talk "

So your saying the original thread should have been posted in a different spot.   Kinda hard to reply in different forum from original thread.

Lonn wrote: How would you post a pic of your team that included an L2 combine, a 7050, a 190 and a WD?

I think we should have a photos section in the forum. I love looking at photos!

I think we should have an "Everything Else" in the farm equipment forum for other brands. I tend to ask my off-brand questions on this forum, because of the wealth of knowledge.

victoryallis wrote: EricPA wrote: victoryallis wrote: Topic is not too vague folks cannt seem to get post in the right place. The farm equipment forum has many for sales, look at my plow day, see my child/grandchild, we lost Bill he had a CA and so on and so forth.   It would be nice if moderators cracked down more on this.   The folks on Agtalk seem to self police this better.   Plain and simple if it's not directly about a peice of farm equipment I doesn't belong here.   Simple enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kinda like this post! Should've been in "forum talk " So your saying the original thread should have been posted in a different spot.   Kinda hard to reply in different forum from original thread.

Yes, "thread " would have been more appropriate and I was going to go back and edit it then I got a phone call and forgot about it. My apologies

I agree that if the non-equipment posts were put in the appropriate sections, the farm equipment section would be less congested.

Stick the current categories and all will be well, but stick to it, don't succumb to laziness. :)

On another forum I frequent, there is a "New Posts" button. I like that feature. It only works if you log on, but if you log on each time, hit New Posts, it lists every thread that has had a new entry since you last logged on, regardless of topic. It's nice. There is also and "Active Topics" button that works if you don't log on, but it's not quite the same thing.

I like this forum. It's very active, so topics do slide down the list rather quickly...You could break it all up into tractors, combines, implements, shows, misc....But yeah, people put stuff like pictures and so on wherever they feel like, so no big deal.

I vote for leaving it alone.  Darrin does a good job with this forum.

Tbone95 wrote: On another forum I frequent, there is a "New Posts" button. I like that feature. It only works if you log on, but if you log on each time, hit New Posts, it lists every thread that has had a new entry since you last logged on, regardless of topic. It's nice. There is also and "Active Topics" button that works if you don't log on, but it's not quite the same thing.

This forum has both features you talk about. In the upper right is a star for "New Posts" and if you go all the way down to the bottom of the page, you will see a list of the most active threads. 

Best left alone . . . . . .