If I won the big lottery
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Topic: If I won the big lottery
Posted By: Lonn
Subject: If I won the big lottery
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 10:05am
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somewhere around 700 million dollars, give or take a couple million. I would go around buying up old M thru M3 and L thru L3 combines and rebuild them for resale. Have a small factory dedicated to that and would update certain things where convenient like a reverser and heavier shoe and replace certain chain drives with belt drives etc, and I wouldn't care if I ever made a dime doing it. Just dreaming today. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
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Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 10:19am
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I would buy the 80 ac down on the corner. Get a 6080 Fwa with a cab. Haul my WD45 and implements down there and farm till all the money was gone.(8-10 years?) ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 10:23am
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I would buy two barns for every tractor and two tractors for every barn.😊 ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Ky.Allis
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 10:30am
| Not me!!!! Evan if unk sam took 40% in taxes you could take in over 12 million per year at 3% on your money. Kick back and enjoy life for once and do what you want and not have to worry about weather,prices,ect. |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:31am
| In other words, we all would farm till we were broke again!!! |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:36am
The nature of one that truley loves what he does and not his bank account. ------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |
nella(Pa) wrote:Posted By: exSW
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 12:08pm
| I'd throw my son the keys to this joint and disappear in a puff of smoke. |
Posted By: tomstractorsandtoys
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 1:38pm
I would hire a couple of mechanics and a body shop painter and rebuild all my old stuff and make it like new again. And buy a bunch more. I might even create a vintage 1960's dealership and maybe make one for each brand.............. Tom |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 1:50pm
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Something like this?  or like ths...  Or this...   Would you come back after all the money was spent? Just wondering. I'm outta here  ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: Mactractor
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 2:06pm
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Quite a lot in the first one to make disappear JC. Just sayin..... |
Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 3:15pm
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I thought everyone thought about winning the lottery everyday ------------- On the farm: Agco Allis 9695, 7060, 7010, R66, Farmall H, and Farmall F20 (Great Grandpa's) |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 3:19pm
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tomstractorsandtoys has the correct.idea. I would buy the 80a and build a 80x200 Morton building and hire a couple of mechanics and a body man. My job would be to drag the projects in. I have lots of ideas and a poor completion record. I need to be Jay Leno instead of Jay Power. And cold beer @ 5 o'clock for all!!! ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: cwhit
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 4:31pm
| I’m going to Jay Powers place and drink beer. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 4:54pm
| put the wife and kids in the car and light a match to the farm and drive away. I didn't but a ticket so I wont be winning. |
Posted By: Orangeade
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 4:55pm
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Good luck to everyone. I hope whomever wins, will let us know. I have a '59 D14 in dire need of a makeover.
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Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 9:59pm
| You can’t lose if you don’t play. |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 10:51pm
| I agree with Tomstractors hire a couple of guys to fix up what I already have while I start buying more and having a little fun farming WITH money and take time to get to some of the tractor shows. |
Posted By: BEK
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 4:48am
I'd get a new lawnmower. A 48" deck mounted under a D21. 
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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 6:47am
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Posted By: Chuck(ONT)
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 7:32am
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Didn't know there were so many single guys on this site. ------------- Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway! 1C 1 WD45 1 AC180 |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 8:32am
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Posted By: ryanschott
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 6:55pm
| Think bigger how much to buy AGCO it’s on the stock market so it’s always for sale buy it and we could have Allis Chalmers again. Probably be a market if they where USA made |
Posted By: exSW
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 7:27pm
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Posted By: ryanschott
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 7:31pm
| So 6billion where dreaming big someone needs to get on jeff bezos good side the guy who owns amazon that would be a drop in the bucket for him |
Posted By: John (MO)
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2019 at 9:36am
| Wonder if AGCO wouldn't sell all rights to pre 100 series tractors for a song. I sure as heck wouldn't want their current business structure anyway. But new CA's, WD45's and D21's would be a fun business to tinker around with. Oh, and new Stinson Stationwagons coming off a line across the street. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2019 at 8:09pm
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Chit,,,if I hear of a lottery winner in SE/IN,,,,I'm cuttin out for ole Jay Powers place before "quick " can get ready,,,,,,,
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