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I think maybe this has came up before, but just wondering if you
named your tractor, if so what did you name it, I have a 8n Ford
with no name.
 
(quoted from post at 18:19:32 07/25/18) I think maybe this has came up before, but just wondering if you
named your tractor, if so what did you name it, I have a 8n Ford
with no name.
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Reminds me of that song . . .

On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound

Well I been through the field
On an [b:ded96824af]N[/b:ded96824af] with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the field you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la, la la la la, la la la, la la...

I get to sing HEY JUBE to my tractor.

or Na, na, na, NA, NAA :D
 
I don't have names per se.
I have 3 tractors and call them different things. First is the little sweetheart. Second is the yellow tractor. Third one I call the galoot.
 
My 48 8n is Mr edd after the original owner and friend of the family. The other 48 8n is Mr. Fixit because that is what I had to do to it. I past Grampa Ray the 46 2n/ Wagner loader on to my step son it was my wifes fathers tractor so now it is with his Grandson. I haven't come up with a name for the 1710 just the blue tractor I guess.
 
We call my brothers 9N Dammit because we are either cleaning the points or working on the carb every spring to make it run. Dammit
 

The farmer that I worked for as a kid called his 960 Charlotte. I think that it may have been related to the song Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte that was popular at the time.
 
We used to call ours by the model number.
"I'll use the 9N for this and the 8N for that."

Once we started getting more than one of the same model,
we started naming them. Smokey Joe was one of our 8N's.
Probably no explanation needed there.

"Roger" was named after the man we bought it from.
Nice 8N and a very nice man too.

The 8N I'm refurbishing now is named "Speedy". A sarcastic
reference to the ground speed of the Sherman combo in Lo range.
I walk faster than it goes in Lo range.

We called [b:93421fd04a]this[/b:93421fd04a] Jubilee Krispy.
Probably no explanation needed there either. :)

Speedy. Almost done. I had to return a part or it would be.
All that's left is to put the hood and lights on it.
Decals were put on after this picture was taken.

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My 8n is Ginger. Named it after the late wife of the friend I acquired it. She was a great gal and Ol Ginny is a great old tractor.
 

well, i doubt i'll win any awards for originality.

i call mine "the ford" and "the allis."
 
I don't give tractors names but if I did I might call some old reliable and other little temperamental.
 
I don't name my vehicles, but like ships, it is usually advisable to use a female name for the superstitious at heart. Note too that it was considered bad luck to even allow a woman on board a prate ship. I've found that it is still best to never curse or yell at your tractor and always talk in a calm, rational voice. When starting is hard, just say, "C'mon baby!!!" -gotta sweet talk them. Doesn't always work but then it doesn't always work dealing with women either... ; > ) GRIN. A side note, my oldest daughter was 6 before she realized our Lab's real name wasn't "dam-it dog!"

Tim Daley(MI)
 

it's a real shame u were incapable of keeping these simple machines running.

it's also a real shame u continue to whine about it several decades later.
 

that was in reply to hd6gtom. i see classic view did not identify the post properly. yes, i'd say classic view IS broken ;)
 
When Admiral Nimitz took command of the Pacific Fleet after Pearl Harbor he was asked by a reporter why do they always refer to battleships as as she or her.
Nimitz replied, "Because it costs so much to keep them in paint and powder."
 

do posts made in modern view never show as replies to the correct user in classic? when i look at this in classic, it shows that post as a reply to the OP.
 
I've found that it is still best to never curse or yell at your tractor and always talk in a calm, rational voice. When starting is hard, just say, "C'mon baby!!!" -gotta sweet talk them. Doesn't always work but then it doesn't always work dealing with women either... ; > ) GRIN.
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Indeed! Machines are fickle and sensitive. It's best to use a light touch, or they act up. :D
 
Classic was replaced because people were too
dumb or lazy to learn a few keystrokes of
html.
Go to the other little n board where they
still use a classic style of board software.
One glance at the page and you can see who
is replying to who. You can select which
part of a thread you wish to view.
And you can read the replys without having
to slog through all the quoted material to
see the new post.
Adding modern happened before most of you
guys came here. It did not improve these
boards - at all.
 
Actually, I don't think it has anything to do with code.

I think it has to do with the more modern way of organization.
The most recent posts are moved to the top so you can see them
at a glance without having to hit the "today's posts" link.

Notifications are sent via email if someone replies to an old post.
So there's no need to muddle back through pages and pages of
posts to find a thread you may be interested in seeing.

I belong to several forums and most use the equivalent organization
of modern view here. I avoid the other N board like the plague.
Specifically because of the way their software works.
It's as outdated as using a horse to make a living doing field work.

I know that many people like it and they are certainly entitled to
their opinion. I also know that change is hard for many folks.
How many wanted to give up Window XP for example?
Yet many of us grasp the opportunity to text on a smart phone.
A quick, easy way to send a message if it doesn't require a long
conversation and they can even include a photo for clarity.
 
Yep, and back then no female was ever on board any carrier or battleship. I'm not being negative or against women serving mind you, just saying the old pirate superstition prevailed for a long time. AAARRRRGGGHH, matey!!!

Tim Daley(MI)
 
(quoted from post at 22:00:41 07/27/18) "Classic works fine and it always worked fine."

Yes it did/does. So do horses if you still want to use them.
Maybe our resident troll could keep those running. ;)
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:lol: :D :lol:

i doubt it, lawson. however, i couid see him hauling thousands of horses to the scrap yard :idea:
 

"Adding modern happened before most of you
guys came here. It did not improve these
boards - at all."

i likely wouldn't have joined here if modern view wasn't in use. i don't need to go anywahere to see how classic view works. i've seen it for nearly 20 years and [i:35e88bd8f0]i have never liked it[/i:35e88bd8f0].

some people too dumb or lazy to learn some html? i'd counter that by pointing out a couple of things.

1. i'm a coder by trade. not in a million years would i expect the average person to have any interest in learning any html.

2. i'll bet some people are also too dumb or lazy to understand how modern view works.
 
As you wish.
But you know how simple it is to hotlink a
photo from another site. It's about 12
keystrokes iirc.
It's about the same level of difficulty to
change font size or color or add a link, or
whatever.
But if that's all too hard...
 
[soapbox] How did this devolve from a fun thread about naming tractors into bickering about forum coding? [/soapbox]

:roll:
 
(quoted from post at 16:19:43 07/28/18) As you wish.
But you know how simple it is to hotlink a
photo from another site. It's about 12
keystrokes iirc.
It's about the same level of difficulty to
change font size or color or add a link, or
whatever.
But if that's all too hard...
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[code:1:d9902733a0]
An image hotlink in HTML

<img src=your_image_url>

An image hotlink in BBCODE

[img]your_image_url[/img]
[/code:1:d9902733a0]

Ten markup characters in deprecated HTML, eleven in BBCODE. The difference is nil. Using the current HTML5 standards the count for the HTML hotlink would be seventeen markup characters. The same is true of your other examples. I was coding for a living two decades before Tim Berners-Lee first announced HTML, HTTP, and the World Wide Web. I started creating HTML content within months of CERN going live (late 1991) and by 1992 had deployed a very early web server at our lab in what was at the time a minuscule but exploding WWW. I am reasonably proficient in HTML and CSS - more so than most folks here. No brag - just fact. I don't use Modern view because I need help with the markup language - I prefer Modern view because the organization and attribution of the content is superior. I miss the flexibility and power of HTML compared to BBCODE but I live with it because of the former. BBCODE does 99% of the things I want to do here so it's not much of a loss. If you don't like the PHPBB look and feel (AKA Modern View) don't use it. This site still provides that option and quite frankly it is the source of most of the problems we see.

TOH
 
I still have some single reel tape backups of programs I
wrote in Harris Basic. I wonder if the tapes are any good. :roll:
They were a great update when we switched from paper
tape backups. Sweeping up the chad was a PITA every night.
At least we didn't have to deal with punch cards.
Life is so much easier now. :)
 
(quoted from post at 22:13:55 07/28/18) I still have some single reel tape backups of programs I
wrote in Harris Basic. I wonder if the tapes are any good. :roll:
They were a great update when we switched from paper
tape backups. Sweeping up the chad was a PITA every night.
At least we didn't have to deal with punch cards.
Life is so much easier now. :)
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At the navy lab in the early 70's the computer center was [b:ead50efa1b][u:ead50efa1b]selling[/u:ead50efa1b][/b:ead50efa1b] chad to the model testing division for use in their towing tanks. They would float the chad on the surface of the water before they towed a model. The chad provided a enhanced visual on the wake videos. It was so profitable we had a program to completely lace cards by the box full using the high speed card punches on the main frame. The field engineers were not happy at what it did to the maintenance schedule for the punches ????
 
(quoted from post at 22:13:55 07/28/18) I still have some single reel tape backups of programs I
wrote in Harris Basic. I wonder if the tapes are any good. :roll:
They were a great update when we switched from paper
tape backups. Sweeping up the chad was a PITA every night.
At least we didn't have to deal with punch cards.
Life is so much easier now. :)
Click to expand...

At the navy lab in the early 70's the computer center was [b:dae5b9186f][u:dae5b9186f]selling[/u:dae5b9186f][/b:dae5b9186f] chad to the model testing division for use in their towing tanks. They would float the chad on the surface of the water before they towed a model. The chad provided a enhanced visual on the wake videos. It was so profitable we had a program to completely lace cards by the box full using the high speed card punches on the main frame. The field engineers were not happy at what it did to the maintenance schedule for the punches ????
 
(quoted from post at 22:13:55 07/28/18) I still have some single reel tape backups of programs I
wrote in Harris Basic. I wonder if the tapes are any good. :roll:
They were a great update when we switched from paper
tape backups. Sweeping up the chad was a PITA every night.
At least we didn't have to deal with punch cards.
Life is so much easier now. :)
Click to expand...

At the navy lab in the early 70's the computer center was [b:1b16028eff][u:1b16028eff]selling[/u:1b16028eff][/b:1b16028eff] chad to the model testing division for use in their towing tanks. They would float the chad on the surface of the water before they towed a model. The chad provided a enhanced visual on the wake videos. It was so profitable we had a program to completely lace cards by the box full using the high speed card punches on the main frame. The field engineers were not happy at what it did to the maintenance schedule for the punches ????
 
My brother-in-law named my 1950 Ford 8N "Lucky"

1950 Ford 8N
Side distributor
upright sparkplugs
flat head
big ears
saggy a s s
forward flow inhancer
back flow preventer
droopy headlights
nice rear light
1 running board
1 walking board
2 tires
4 rims
needs towed
Answers to the name of "Lucky"
 
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