Some Interesting (But Probably Useless) Information

[Dan England]

I have been watching the increase in membership for a couple of weeks and wondering if we are growing at a faster pace than in the past. The following table gives the number of days required to gain each additional 100 members, starting at a membership of 1100 and continuing to 1700, the number which we reached today.

FROM -- TO ---------- DAYS

1101---1200 --------- 79

1201---1300 --------- 51

1301---1400--------- 61

1401---1500--------- 41

1501---1600 -------- 46

1601---1700--------- 39

The numbers are somewhat erratic but do indicate an accelerated growth rate.

[kinelbor]

It does seem like there are a lot of "first posts" lately.

[johnbron]

It seems to go in spurts. I have seen it go for 3-weeks with no new members and then 5-or-6 sign up on the same day. I try to check all new members and have the ones removed that should not be here.

[S.H.A.F.T.]

What about the old guys? I miss Calvin and Yo's Dad. I wonder what those guys are doing. Remember when Calvin broke his tractor in half?

S.H.A.F.T.

[Rudi]

Shaft..

Tom (Yo's Dad) popped in about a month ago. He is doing well, but they are real busy and he hasn't had any time to play tractor in a while. As things settle up/down for him, he should be back on more regular like..

And as for Calvin, it has been a while hasn't it

Dan, kind of interesting them thar numbers of yours... I was just thinkin on who will be number 1700 and how long will it take us to break 2000

[Dan England]

I do remember that Calvin's tractor broke in half. I believe a forum member helped him by providing a torque tube. I think that he had the tractor up for sale at the time he quit posting messages. A very nice fellow. Rudi, if we continue at the current rate we should hit 2,000 by the end of the year. Dan

[evielboweviel]

Calvin sold his trawctor a couple of years ago +-.
Last I talked to him christmas??, he had a different doctor was losing some weight and starting to get a handle on his health issuses. He was down to inactive status for a while. He still had to us a little scooter to get around,. Guess I need to drop an email to him and see what is up.
Ron

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Is his email address on the board still correct? I tried emailing him a while back and it was returned undeliverable.

[Brent]

Dan,

I wonder who the first ten members were? I looked at the member list but it started over with the new format on 2/1/03. Dennis must be # 1 and George, Bigdog, Jim B., John and probebly "Country" have to be in there somewhere.

[Donny M]

I believe Johnbron was #2.

[Dan England]

Brent: I took the following from the memberlist : 1. Admin 2. Dennis (47 Cub) 3. jonbron 4. Milldude 5. Clark Dechant 6. Bigdog 7. moledigger 8. mike in ga 9. jim turner 10. Jim Hudson 11. charles moore (I used large or small case for the first letter of names as given on memberlist) Is Clark Dechant the fellow who did excellent work on restoring Cubs a few years ago? Dan

[Jim Becker]

Jonbron was the first to sign on after Dennis finshed setting it up. If you change your profile to pacific time, you will actually see his date as 2/1. About 70 more of us signed on the first full day (2/2), with about another 100 the rest of the first week. Of course, we were nearly all previously on the old version of the bboard. I don't know if any records of the old board exist. As I recall, it was an open page and didn't require joining. So, such records probably never existed.

Dan, you are probably thinking of Clark Thompson, who also signed on pretty early and is listed a little farther down.

For fun, resort the member list, descending by total posts.

[Dan England]

You are right, Jim. Clark Thompson is the one I was thinking of. Dan

[Dan England]

Brent: I read your post again and now realize that you were asking about the first ten on the old format. I believe that you already knew the first ten on the new format before I posted it. Sorry about that. Dan

[Calvin]

Hello to all my good friends here on the cub board. I apologize for not getting on more often. My good friend Ron Selzer sent me a email today letting me know that a few of you were asking about me. Well I have had a very bad year, Feb 1st my Mom passed away and that about done me in because I have had taken full care of Mom since Dad passed in 1994. My Mom passed away at the house in my arms and the same night my little dog Sissy seen what was going on and she went into a seizure. I had to rush her to the vet and he said some dogs will do this being she and Mom were so close but she's better now. Then my doctor tells me I have crippling rumatoid arthritis in both legs inherited it from my Dad so this year has been a very bad one for me. Some of you know that when I sold the ol cub I purchased one of them Swisher pull mowers, well it was great until the arthritis set in so much that I couldn't pull the rope to start it so it was sold also. Now I have and I know this is a bad word on this forum, but being the dealer is just up the road I have purchased a new John Deere riding tractor to mow. Still have my old cub cadets but they need work that I cant do so they set in the garage. I start them from time to time and even bring the one out for a ride that has the hydramatic trans in it. But for mowing I cant trust them any longer due to some work needed and if I broke down in the field well thats where Id set until someone found me haha. That wouldnt be much fun especially how hot its been this year. Again I want to say to all my cub friends hello and I will try and get on here more often. I see the board has changed since I used to get on here but it wont take me long to learn it.
Calvin...