What current member has been with TBN the longest?

[LD1]

So what is the total number of registered members today? Jon

That info is always at the top of the main forum page

 

[YanmarFever]

I came over from the yahoo yanmar owners forum.
I lurked for a while before coming on board. Im glad I joined, back then, import yanmars were relatively new and we all had to figure out a whole bunch of things.

 

[jyoutz]

Gotta disagree with that. Bird doesn't post every day but does (in the Good Morning forum) at least once every week or two.
Initially, TBN was mostly for Kubota owners...not sure when it expanded to other brands

When I joined in 2000, this site had forums for several tractor brands, so the Kubota only era must have predated 2000.

 

[cqaigy2]

I joined twice, the second time when i tried to reset my password, but Netscape email wasn't a thing anymore, guessing though, probably 2003 or so.

 

[5030]

Bird still comments infrequently.

 

[MossRoad]

I joined twice, the second time when i tried to reset my password, but Netscape email wasn't a thing anymore, guessing though, probably 2003 or so.

Netscape... I think that came bundled with Frogger!



( My apologies to Nick Burns )

 

[Muhammad]

When I joined in 2000, this site had forums for several tractor brands, so the Kubota only era must have predated 2000.

Kubota only ended in late 1999.

 

[scaredychicken]

I'm a relative newbie, July 2012 for me, so only 10 years ... but that was 6 yrs before I bought my first / current tractor

 

[ponytug]

Well a big thank you to @Muhammad for starting TBN, and the old timers for joining up and sharing! I knew next to nothing about tractors when I joined, and TBN was, and is, a huge, huge help in getting me started and along the way.

All the best,

Peter

 

[YanmarFever]

Without TBN there would of been a lot LESS tractor sales made in the US.
People came to this website and you guys answered all their questions, which helped make tractor ownership a reality and removed the mystery of how it all works.

When your tractor misbehaves, where do you turn to..... TBN

I know that I had a lot of customers that heard about us from TBN.

 

[Torvy]

I suggest you add some special icon or other 'bling' for the early adopters. Staying active for that long is impressive. Maybe a memorial wall for those who are now plowing God's back 40?

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

Gotta disagree with that. Bird doesn't post every day but does (in the Good Morning forum) at least once every week or two.

Glad to hear he is still around. I wasn't sure what happened to him.

Initially, TBN was mostly for Kubota owners...not sure when it expanded to other brands

Interesting...Why was it just focused on Kubota?

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

Kubota only ended in late 1999.

Why was it Kubota only Muhammad?

 

[California]

I came over from the yahoo yanmar owners forum.

Me too.

I lurked for a while before coming on board. Im glad I joined, back then, import yanmars were relatively new and we all had to figure out a whole bunch of things.

Me too.

I bought an abused US-version Yanmar in 2003 that was 20+ years old, and an orphan after Yanmar left the the US market. This was the only site with Yanmar owners who could show me what I needed to put my first tractor in good running order. It's been flawless ever since.

I chose 'California' for my screen name just because there were weren't more than a couple of Left Coast posters on the whole board. Member # somewhere in the first 10,000.

And a shoutout to rScotty, another Yanmar enthusiast and co-founder of the Yanmar forum back then. He's still around.

 

[California]

Why was it Kubota only Muhammad?

Cause that's what his family bought.

Muhammad, you need to elaborate on this!

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

And a shoutout to rScotty, another Yanmar enthusiast and co-founder of the Yanmar forum back then. He's still around.

I was unaware of this. I know Scotty has both Deere and Kubota tractors but I didn't know he had any experience with Yanmar other than market knowledge.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

Muhammad, you need to elaborate on this!

Please!

 

[bigtiller]

Sure wish we could get the members list back from the old system.

 

[ronjhall]

I was one of those that came from the Kubota forum. Did not get sign onto TBN until 4/18/20. Because I was recovering from surgery.
A little history as I remember it. Muhammad started the Kubota forum when he was a young teenager. Kubota sent him a letter about not wanting him to use their name in his forum name. Muhammad new all there was to know about Kubota tractors. So TBN was started with the help of his brother Ibrahim. In 2005 I got to meet the whole family at their offices in Tuscan. One of the highlights of our Frist trip out west after retiring. I still have the TBN T-shirts that were given to us during that visit.
After that visit we traveled to TX to attend a Texas get together. Bird, Txdon, Wroughton Harv, AlanL, mikim, Eddie Walker, Kyle_in_Tex, Jinman, Fishman and many more attended. It was great to meet all these people that I met on the internet.
I am sure Muhammad will have much better explanation on how we have TBN today.

 

[Bird]

I see my name mentioned a few times in this thread, so just a little history. I retired just before my 25th year completed as a Captain from the Dallas, TX police department when I was just a couple of months short of being 50 years old. I had worked every job in the police department except undercover vice and narcotics and had been a division commander the last half of my careeer. When I retired, our two daughters had grown up and left home, and we closed on the sale of the house a couple of days later and took off in an RV; spent about 6 years travelling all over the country, in some part of every state but Hawaii and California (I'd been to California on business 3 times when I was a police captain). We drove to Alaska 3 times, the first time before the road was paved. I worked one summer in my brother's tire dealership and garage in Anchorage. I made one trip all the way up the pipeline to Prudhoe Bay. My wife and I both worked one summer in an RV resort in Virginia Beach. And I worked doing gas leakage surveys in 6 or 7 states a couple of years.

And then we bought a 10 acre place in Navarro County, Tx that had a small barn and a much larger shop building. I raised a few hundred New Zealand white rabbits, just a few goats, had some fruit and pecan trees. I repaired/rebuilt a few hundred mechanics air tools, and I bought a small Kubota tractor to use there. And part of my early experience with the Internet was looking for information about the Kubota, and I found . . . well, it was this site, but a different name in those days and I later learned it was run by a very sharp youngster who grew up and still runs it today. I later bought a second, slightly larger small Kubota tractor, but i also worked for a neighbor using his bigger tractors, cutting and baling hay. And I helped him work his cattle, branding, tagging, moving, feeding, etc.

So I think I can say I've had more fun that anyone is entitled to, and just as I completed my first year as a police officer, I married a gal who has helped me with everything I wanted to do and put up with me all these years. And now I have an advanced case of Alzheimer's, and at nearly 83 years of age . . . well, I'm back to being a city boy, but I do still look in on tractorbynet most days.