SethO -
<font color="blue">I knew that a lot of people will be ticked off. </font>
Yes, and I'm glad my annoyance was received as intended - and apparently my interpretation of where you were going with your comments was “on” as well.
<font color="blue"> But tractors are not the only 'my farm is bigger than yours' that we buy. </font>
Interesting choice of words. I'll give you points for your stealth approach on this one. Interesting that you insinuate that by me answering your question specifically as to my uses (e.g. honoring your request by putting context around it), I am now bragging about the size of my place! You seem determined to make folks out to be pompous if they make ANY comment as to what "they" have - ignoring its relevance to the conversation. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif For the record, yes, my place is absolutely tiny and insignificant in comparison to a lot of other folks here on TBN (thinking of Cowboydoc here) - and I have no problem with that as I don’t measure my worth as an individual with how much tractor or land I own.
<font color="blue">For example somebody who does not know what "any key" is on a computer wants to buy the fastest Pentium on sale. </font>
A poor equivalent example - not even an "apple" & "orange" comparison. Why? I could go on for a LONG time (Moore’s law, OS support cutoffs, incompatibility w/ new software releases, etc.), but your point is really one about human nature and not the technology involved. Forgetting the problem with switching between two completely different groups of individuals in mid-stream, (i.e. non-owners w/ owners), the biggest problem I have is your desire to stereotype TBN folks and then pass judgement on them.
Essentially you are talking about the “human nature” to want the biggest, baddest, P.C. on the block simply so that they can “show off” to their neighbors (i.e. “Keeping up with the Joneses”).
While I will submit that yes, such individuals exist in the world, and even some people who buy a tractor do it for those reasons, I don’t concur with your apparent assumption that most TBN’ers fall in to this category. By it’s sheer nature, your posts “presumes guilt” - asking folks to prove they use their tractor “enough” to justify it to your standards (that whole “regular basis” thing again which you have yet to define in measurable terms - and which would be meaningless anyway because of the various reasons I pointed out in my earlier post.)
<font color="blue">And for a prospective buyer, it helps provide some insight into what to expect, as opposed to simply advising to go as big as you can afford/fit in your shed/mow your lawn kind of answer. </font>
I agree - but I feel it is unfair and inaccurate to characterize the majority of “What should I buy” threads in this way. I have read a lot (and posted in a few) of these threads over time and they RARELY are as limited as this. Usually the first or second reply to such posts requests much more additional information before advise is presented (i.e. size of lot/land, planned activities, future resale, service, etc...) A fair amount of the time the “buy bigger” comment comes from folks who point out that based on their experience, they did and are glad they did because they now can accomplish extra tasks they hadn’t thought of when first considering their purchase. The remaining folks who say "buy bigger" usually say so because they wish they had.
If your only intent was to request that folks provide meaningful examples as to why they did/should have chosen a “big” tractor, you could have done it more effectively by dropping the insulting innuendo that implies anyone with a “big tractor” is “overcompensating.”
Perhaps you should look back at a number of threads and re-evaluate your judgement. Looks to me that there is a lot of helpful information & opinions (backed up with reasoning) given by people trying to help newcomers. Funny - I don't see a lot of "Buy BIG!! Always BUY BIG!! Bigger is always BETTER!!" going on in this thread.
<font color="blue">I knew that a lot of people will be ticked off. </font>
Yes, and I'm glad my annoyance was received as intended - and apparently my interpretation of where you were going with your comments was “on” as well.
<font color="blue"> But tractors are not the only 'my farm is bigger than yours' that we buy. </font>
Interesting choice of words. I'll give you points for your stealth approach on this one. Interesting that you insinuate that by me answering your question specifically as to my uses (e.g. honoring your request by putting context around it), I am now bragging about the size of my place! You seem determined to make folks out to be pompous if they make ANY comment as to what "they" have - ignoring its relevance to the conversation. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif For the record, yes, my place is absolutely tiny and insignificant in comparison to a lot of other folks here on TBN (thinking of Cowboydoc here) - and I have no problem with that as I don’t measure my worth as an individual with how much tractor or land I own.
<font color="blue">For example somebody who does not know what "any key" is on a computer wants to buy the fastest Pentium on sale. </font>
A poor equivalent example - not even an "apple" & "orange" comparison. Why? I could go on for a LONG time (Moore’s law, OS support cutoffs, incompatibility w/ new software releases, etc.), but your point is really one about human nature and not the technology involved. Forgetting the problem with switching between two completely different groups of individuals in mid-stream, (i.e. non-owners w/ owners), the biggest problem I have is your desire to stereotype TBN folks and then pass judgement on them.
Essentially you are talking about the “human nature” to want the biggest, baddest, P.C. on the block simply so that they can “show off” to their neighbors (i.e. “Keeping up with the Joneses”).
While I will submit that yes, such individuals exist in the world, and even some people who buy a tractor do it for those reasons, I don’t concur with your apparent assumption that most TBN’ers fall in to this category. By it’s sheer nature, your posts “presumes guilt” - asking folks to prove they use their tractor “enough” to justify it to your standards (that whole “regular basis” thing again which you have yet to define in measurable terms - and which would be meaningless anyway because of the various reasons I pointed out in my earlier post.)
<font color="blue">And for a prospective buyer, it helps provide some insight into what to expect, as opposed to simply advising to go as big as you can afford/fit in your shed/mow your lawn kind of answer. </font>
I agree - but I feel it is unfair and inaccurate to characterize the majority of “What should I buy” threads in this way. I have read a lot (and posted in a few) of these threads over time and they RARELY are as limited as this. Usually the first or second reply to such posts requests much more additional information before advise is presented (i.e. size of lot/land, planned activities, future resale, service, etc...) A fair amount of the time the “buy bigger” comment comes from folks who point out that based on their experience, they did and are glad they did because they now can accomplish extra tasks they hadn’t thought of when first considering their purchase. The remaining folks who say "buy bigger" usually say so because they wish they had.
If your only intent was to request that folks provide meaningful examples as to why they did/should have chosen a “big” tractor, you could have done it more effectively by dropping the insulting innuendo that implies anyone with a “big tractor” is “overcompensating.”
Perhaps you should look back at a number of threads and re-evaluate your judgement. Looks to me that there is a lot of helpful information & opinions (backed up with reasoning) given by people trying to help newcomers. Funny - I don't see a lot of "Buy BIG!! Always BUY BIG!! Bigger is always BETTER!!" going on in this thread.
