Such a sad sight to see
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Topic: Such a sad sight to see
Posted By: ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
Subject: Such a sad sight to see
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 8:44pm
Went to the Wisconsin State Fair yesterday with the wife and kids. The wife pointed out this billboard for the kids to get their picture taken in. How sad is it that I go to West Allis, Wisconsin to the Wisconsin State Fair, and I'm standing probably less then 1 mile from where many of our favorite tractors came off the assembly line, and my wife points out a sign of a Allis Chalmers tractor, and they can't even paint it with the right color? Come on, any color orange would be fine, but red? Sad day for AC indeed. The company that sponsored this sign and the barn with all the other farm exhibits is Badgerland Financial which is a Wisconsin based company. I think I am going to send them a copy of this picture and tell them how dissapointed in them I am that they can't even get a portion of Wisconsin's heritage correct like this?
 ------------- 1955 WD45 diesel 203322 was my dad's tractor, 1966 D15 23530, 1961 HD3 Crawler 1918, 1966 D17 IV 83495, 1937 WC 41255, 1962 D19 6221 |
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Posted By: ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 8:46pm
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And I won't even start to comment on the fact of the tractor not even resembling an AC. Maybe that's why my kids looked so sad to have their picture taken in front of this mess!! ------------- 1955 WD45 diesel 203322 was my dad's tractor, 1966 D15 23530, 1961 HD3 Crawler 1918, 1966 D17 IV 83495, 1937 WC 41255, 1962 D19 6221 |
Posted By: Ryan Renko
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 8:50pm
| I need a moment to reflect on this. |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 8:55pm
| No wonder they are frowning! I love it. You can always play the kid angle and tell Badgerland Financial that the picture was so disturbing to them that they will be scarred by it for a long time because they KNOW that an Allis Chalmers should be ORANGE! |
Posted By: Auntwayne
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 9:20pm
| That is pretty bad, not even close !!! |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 9:24pm
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WOW, not only is it red, it looks like a FORD!!!
That tractor is in misery! lol ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: Nate (OH)
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 9:36pm
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Don(MI) wrote:Posted By: Jeff Z. NY
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 9:37pm
| I think it looks like a Massey 65. |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 9:40pm
Me to.
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Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 10:03pm
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they probably thought since agco owns massey that theyve owned them all along and made the same tractors with different colout paint ------------- red and green are nice for christmas, but orange is all year round http://www.canadianantiquetractor.com/tractorforum/ |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 5:08am
Ford 601 ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 7:29am
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I think more like a Massey 35 which had the vertical grill. LOL ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 8:08am
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Boys Boys, that the crap you get when the "townies" are in charge. More politically irrelevant b.s. ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: MilesGray (CO/KS)
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 8:17am
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They had to pay so much for the AC logo that they didn't have any more for the quart of PO#1... ------------- Miles Gray (CO/KS) 5 1938 B's, 1940 B, 1944 WF C, 1948 NF C, Gleaner A, White Top Rotobaler, 1957 IH Golden Jubilee... I'm either a collector, or crazy! |
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 8:21am
| Badgerland financial is a bunch of crooks anyway. Deal with your local bank and you'll get a lot better service and better rates too. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 12:46am
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At least it has the Allis Chalmers name. That's better than a certain company we all know and whose name I shall not mention. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Kip-Utah
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 10:52am
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Looks like a cartoon version of a Fergie 35 to me! Actually I like the picture but the A-C logo obviously was an afterthought by some doofus!! ------------- HANSEN'S OLD ORANGE IRON. Showing, Pulling, & Going!! |
Posted By: wkpoor
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 11:27am
| Goes to show just how disconnected the public is even in places like Wisconsin. |
Posted By: Kcgrain
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 3:42pm
| The public should be informed, that not only are they in the city that was named and built by Allis Chalmers the land that the state fair is on was donated by the company so they should be showing proper respect!!!!! |
Posted By: Jamie (KY)
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 4:26pm
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Atleast the spelled it right. Now that really would have been bad! ------------- Just when I thought I was finishing my "honey-do-list", she turned the page!!! |
Posted By: beeman
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2011 at 9:07pm
------------- 1949 B 3930 Ford- Have owned other Orange ,green,red,yellow,dark green tractors and equipment. |