Klaus Lutz
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Hi from GermanyHello,
Time to introduce myself.
First I want to thank you. I felt at home here from the first moment I entered the forum.
I was born in 1961 in Southwest Germany (Palatinate) and there I live till this day. I did a lot of jobs during my life. At the moment I serf as chief security officer in a coorporation that produces agricultural machinery. Formerly it had been Heinrich LANZ AG (maybe you know the Lanz Bulldog traction engine).
Steam Engines are a very recent hobby of mine. I discovered it in summer 2008 while forced to stay at home for 8 weeks due to a medical problem. I was bored to death by inactivity. So I remembered a time long ago when I was a boy of about 10 or so and a friend (not a close friend) had a Steam Engine. I liked it very much and wanted to have such a wonderful thing too. My parents denied that (not without reason) and in the end I forgot the matter.
Now in summer of 2008 there was nothing to be said against buying a Steam Engine. So I ordered and got one. The rest is in your imagination. Steam Engines are breeding very fast, arenīt they?
Klaus
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IndianaRog
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Klaus, good to learn a bit about you and your background. Many of us were touched by a steam engine in our youth and now as adults can pursue what might have once just been a dream. My first engine spanned almost 40 years before I rekindled the interest and added a "few" more specimens.
Roger
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James
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Hi Klaus, brilliant story!
So you work at the Lanz factory?? 
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Klaus Lutz
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| James wrote: | Hi Klaus, brilliant story!
So you work at the Lanz factory?? |
It had been Lanz until the mid 1950s. Some of the buildings had known old Heinrich Lanz personally I presume 
Now (that is no secret) it is John Deere.
There is also a small museum with mostly Lanz Bulldogs from the beginning (1923?) to the end (1956) and one single horsedrawn steam locomobil.
If you like I can send you the E-Mail adress of the archivist.
Klaus
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Kritika
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Hi Klaus
A big Forum welcom from the South of England 
Glad you made it here OK. 
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johnreid
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Nothing runs like a Deere
Welcome to the forum from Indiana USA, there are MANY green tractors around here.
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scorpion2nz
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welcome from down under in New Zealand
A farmer with JD tractor
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Wallace
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Welcome to the forums Klaus.
I have already enjoyed reading your posts 
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mogogear
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Welcome Klaus!! Happy new Year -- !!
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Graham-Jilly
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welcome Klaus from the great land down under
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Alf
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Les
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Welcome to the forum from Bournemouth.
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Sandman
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Once again, a great big Scottish welcome Klaus.
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