Neil, you are an incredibly humble and likeable guy. You should be proud of a family heritage and the bright future to the farming community you support. Cheers!
Totally enjoyed the history lesson. Really cool. Nowhere near Messicks (southern TN) but buy parts online for my small BX since you all do so many wonderful videos for us diy maintenance guys… Have learned a ton and look forward to more wonderful videos to come. 💪🏼
That was a nice little trip down memory lane Neil. Its nice to revisit the past and share memories of your Dad. One should never forget where they came from. Like you, your Dad took care of his customers.
I know how you feel saying goodbye to the old location. The plant I worked in for 40 years in Philly is currently being demolished as we speak. It’s like it was never there…but life goes on, and your company will continue to grow and thrive! Congrats again Neil!
Hi Neil, this is what growth is about. It also opens opportunities for others to move into your past and maybe be as successful. I like keeping some of my older properties but will once in a while sell for new avenues. Nice of you to share your memories.
Great stories and memories. Thank you for sharing them with us. New location with new memories to be made. Prayers for all the Messick’s family as you continue to grow and not only serve but contribute to your community. God Bless.
Thank you Neil for the stroll down memory lane. I’ve never been to your place but I’ve been watching you for a few years. I feel like the old place is a part of my life as I’ve watched you on the property for so long. It’s amazing the emotions that come from something like what you showed. I wish everyone could have the wonderful years and blessings you have had with family and relationships. Thanks again for sharing this very sensitive and important time in you life. Maybe I’ll get to see your new place some time.
I was a Paramedic in E-Town in the '80s to early '90s on Medic 5, and remember the early days of Messicks. Similar to Messicks is the evolution and growth of Trops from 1 tiny "shack" to a mega facility!!!
As a tech working at another Kubota dealership way down south, thanks for such a great video! Me and the guys at work watch your channel every day. Great luck in the future.
I drove a bus with a church youth group to Elizabethtown in 2015. Stayed at the Holiday Inn right next door. I farm with IH equipment in Minnesota. I drove the bus through the lot once or twice that week. Loved seeing the business then. Love seeing this video of a place I got to visit
Neil, I don’t know you. Only thru your you tubes. I am a Kubota owner and have actually bought a few parts from you, even though I live in N.C. Great video. How fortunate you are to have a legacy organization to be a part of. Also I must say how proud your grandfather and father must be of you. What an incredible asset you are to this company. May God continue to bless you and your family.
Thanks for sharing your memories. I don't have that many memories of the old store, but I will miss it in some ways. At the open house for the new store I took one of the tours. The old store will be missed but the new store is amazing. Thanks.
Hey thanks for the tour Neil! Really enjoy this video. Usually on here to learn something but this was a pleasant distraction from work :-) I would say best of luck in the new location but your hard work and efficient service is going to be all you need for your continued success. You were saying you had more stock shelving which is going to be great when I order my parts for up here in New Hampshire. Oh yeah we have Kubota dealers up here but when I order online you guys get it right! You'll do fine!
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🎋🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! I’m retired now (close to 80) but I had an IT career of 45 years. My first job was at Iowa State University and they didn’t have a computer….what they had was IBM accounting machines and millions of punched cards. My last job (37 years) was with Lennox International who owned Lennox Heating & Air Conditioning and several other companies that were cooling related. I started as a programmer and worked my way up to Director. During that 37 years I saw lots of changes. CAD/CAM, manufacturing automation, warehouse automation, World wide networking. In the mid seventies we moved the Corporate Headquarters plus R&D from Marshalltown, Iowa to Dallas, TX. Retired to East Texas 2008, have a Kubota L3200 and that's how I found your channel which I enjoy. You are a very lucky young man….take care and keep making videos👍
Lived in E-Town after I got out of the Navy and was working at TMI cleaning up after the accident. Moved on when that was done but then ended up at York working for Cat. Until they closed down. Alive and happy in Wyoming now. Good luck at your new location! I enjoy the videos.
A fun to see video. It seems a more and more rare thing that a young person can have the experience you have had growing up in a real family business. It says a lot about your family that it is still a family business.
Yep, it's got to be tough moving out.. It's been your family's "home" since the beginning of the company.. Wishing your family much success in the new facility.
I remember coming to this location as a very young kid back in the 80’s. Always excited to go to Messick’s with Dad or Grandpa. Thanks for sharing Neil.
Neil, I have moved over 30 times over my life and spent over 20 yrs overseas....a little bit older than you. I can't imagine living in one place all these years......but it sounds great to work with your family and work in a business from early childhood to now. The connections you have to the places and the people in that location is fantastic.
Hi Neil! Thanks for taking us down memory lane with you. Great stories and I can see why it’s hard to say goodbye to the place where it all started. I live in Georgia but I am a Messick’s customer through your website and the proud owner of a Kubota L3901. I wish all of you continued success in your Mt Joy location!
Neil, great job on the history. Thanks for expanding the business and all the support you provide to the tractor owners who don't have local dealers to turn to. Your parts dept is top rate and super helpful. Bill Church
No wonder the roof is so bad, been there since '78. Great stories and great memories. Enjoyed hearing them. Be sure to lay the ground work for you children to have the same with the new place.
What a great video. Great to see a family owned business being successful. You do a fantastic job on your videos and I personally have learned a mountain of useful information from them. Thank you to you and your family. Hopefully Grandpa is still helping out?
Neil, Thanks for sharing. I enjoy watching all of your videos and learning cool tips and things. I wish you were closer to Massachusetts. I have been buying parts there for years. Due to your distance I can't buy any machines from you. Some day I hope to visit just to check out your huge operation. Keep up all the informative videos. I look forward to it when you post new content. Thanks again.
Bought my first kubota tractor from that store MX5200 in 2015 and many attachments best sales guys great help and bet everyone’s price in eastern Pa. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very neat to hear your stories. Has to be bittersweet and know your kids will one day have their own memories as you do. Really appreciate you sharing.
I'm on the West coast so I've never been to your facility, but thanks for sharing. Best of luck in your new facilities- I'm sure it has its own excitement and will start building fond memories for all involved.
Sad to see it go! Will have to visit the site in MT Joy. I'm from E-town and spent a lot of time at this location as a kid with my dad and as an adult picking up parts for my tractor. I live in Maryland, so any time there is a trip to E-Town to visit the folks, there is always a stop in at Messick's. Great people, great support and they always have what you need. Best wishes for the new location. R. Norris
Great family work ethic instilled thru this business. The open house is something not seen around here, but would be awesome to have. The kids attending with their grandpas at new location will have great memories as well.
Thank you Neil for all that you and your family does. I live too far away to buy a tractor from you but I bought parts and other items and you have made a big influence on my Tractor purchases in the last five years.
You know your doing something really correct when your grandfather hands down a business and it's still thriving decades later.I'm all kubota and canadian,BUT,come to this channel for informative and helpful info.Thanks for the tour.
I wish you all the best moving forward and want to thank you for the production of your videos. As a new tractor owner 10 years ago, I gained much valuable information and knowledge from your videos that I may never have been exposed too without your helpful information. Thanks very
I'm happy for your move. I pray many blessings to your family and work families. I truly feel the emotion of change. It sometimes sucks. But we must move forward!
That's a beautiful thing. It's good that enough of your family stuck together enough to keep a business going for such a long time. Really is good stuff. My dad and his brother had a quite successful business, but then things happened and now we have nothing lol
Great video of great memories. I was more of a customer of Abbottstown facility as I lived close to there. What is the chance I could get a piece of shingle from E-town roof. Your famous backdrop lol. Best wishes to all. I am in Florida now and not sure if and when I will get to see the new facilty. Best wishes!
great walk down memory lane, I know you are sad but as the times change so do your shop. And your new location is beautiful. I was born and raised in York Pa. but in 1965 went into the USAF and now live in San Antonio Tx. And I have gotten parts from you even now. Thanks for all your great video's.
Excellent video Neil! I too have a background in IT. I have never been to Messicks in PA but like quite a few others are customers via the website. I never thought I would subscribe to a equipment company but I own a Kubota RTV X1120D. Good luck I pray for success in your new location.
Great videos Neil, definitely a different flavor than your typical content but a very good video that was entertaining and interesting to watch. It is amazing when you stop and think the amount of memories that are in a building
I have some good ones from up there too. As a kid in the 90's I remember riding along with dad and going in many times. The $.10 gumball machine and checking out the latest toys. If we had time we'd drive around the lower lot on the way out to see what was just traded. There was one open house with a pedal tractor pull, I remember this one girl pulled the steering wheel off. Also did a lot of parts runs when I could drive myself. I remember a lot of different people from up there too. Too many to mention. It always felt like family, always friendly and helpful. Now dad remembers where you were at first on 230 and how big a deal it was moving then.
Great video Neil 🙂 We drive by every spring and fall coming and going to the Carlisle Pennsylvania car swap meets. Looking forward to seeing your new store! 😀
Sad, thought I was going to see the old bank and say goodbye to the shingles for one last time...........Not a local guy there, but drove by on 283 once every year or two and the changes there over time have sure been amazing............Atleast it has moved on to a new spot unlike so many dealers who have passed on only to leave behind just memories and a empty building.
Neil, let's hope that your grandchildren will carry on the family tradition and will be telling great heartfull stories of their grandfather also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never got to see your old place and I missed your grand opening at your new place. Might just ride my motorcycle over to say high this summer sometime.
On one of your earlier tours, you mentioned there was a storage facility some distance from the E-town store. Is that remote location still operational?
So it looks like none of us will be able to post anymore "When are you going to re-shingle that roof? It looks ugly". And now we know why you didn't spend the money getting it fixed.
Neil, you are an incredibly humble and likeable guy. You should be proud of a family heritage and the bright future to the farming community you support. Cheers!
Totally enjoyed the history lesson. Really cool. Nowhere near Messicks (southern TN) but buy parts online for my small BX since you all do so many wonderful videos for us diy maintenance guys… Have learned a ton and look forward to more wonderful videos to come. 💪🏼
Moving forward, I wish Messicks all the best in the coming years
NEIL THAT WAS GREAT HISTORY THANKS FOR THE TOUR.. GREAT JOB...
That was a nice little trip down memory lane Neil. Its nice to revisit the past and share memories of your Dad. One should never forget where they came from. Like you, your Dad took care of his customers.
I know how you feel saying goodbye to the old location. The plant I worked in for 40 years in Philly is currently being demolished as we speak. It’s like it was never there…but life goes on, and your company will continue to grow and thrive! Congrats again Neil!
Hi Neil, this is what growth is about. It also opens opportunities for others to move into your past and maybe be as successful. I like keeping some of my older properties but will once in a while sell for new avenues.
Nice of you to share your memories.
Great stories and memories. Thank you for sharing them with us. New location with new memories to be made. Prayers for all the Messick’s family as you continue to grow and not only serve but contribute to your community. God Bless.
Wishing you the best thanks for all your support
Neil , you need to hang up a few pictures of your dad and your grandpa in your new place , take them with you ! They would be so happy for you .
Thank you Neil for the stroll down memory lane. I’ve never been to your place but I’ve been watching you for a few years. I feel like the old place is a part of my life as I’ve watched you on the property for so long. It’s amazing the emotions that come from something like what you showed. I wish everyone could have the wonderful years and blessings you have had with family and relationships. Thanks again for sharing this very sensitive and important time in you life. Maybe I’ll get to see your new place some time.
I was a Paramedic in E-Town in the '80s to early '90s on Medic 5, and remember the early days of Messicks. Similar to Messicks is the evolution and growth of Trops from 1 tiny "shack" to a mega facility!!!
As a tech working at another Kubota dealership way down south, thanks for such a great video! Me and the guys at work watch your channel every day. Great luck in the future.
Thanks 👍
I drove a bus with a church youth group to Elizabethtown in 2015. Stayed at the Holiday Inn right next door. I farm with IH equipment in Minnesota. I drove the bus through the lot once or twice that week. Loved seeing the business then. Love seeing this video of a place I got to visit
Neil, I don’t know you. Only thru your you tubes. I am a Kubota owner and have actually bought a few parts from you, even though I live in N.C. Great video. How fortunate you are to have a legacy organization to be a part of. Also I must say how proud your grandfather and father must be of you. What an incredible asset you are to this company. May God continue to bless you and your family.
I'm sure your grandfather is proud of you all! Keep up the great work!!
Thanks for sharing your memories. I don't have that many memories of the old store, but I will miss it in some ways. At the open house for the new store I took one of the tours. The old store will be missed but the new store is amazing. Thanks.
Hey thanks for the tour Neil! Really enjoy this video. Usually on here to learn something but this was a pleasant distraction from work :-) I would say best of luck in the new location but your hard work and efficient service is going to be all you need for your continued success. You were saying you had more stock shelving which is going to be great when I order my parts for up here in New Hampshire. Oh yeah we have Kubota dealers up here but when I order online you guys get it right! You'll do fine!
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🎋🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! I’m retired now (close to 80) but I had an IT career of 45 years. My first job was at Iowa State University and they didn’t have a computer….what they had was IBM accounting machines and millions of punched cards. My last job (37 years) was with Lennox International who owned Lennox Heating & Air Conditioning and several other companies that were cooling related. I started as a programmer and worked my way up to Director. During that 37 years I saw lots of changes. CAD/CAM, manufacturing automation, warehouse automation, World wide networking. In the mid seventies we moved the Corporate Headquarters plus R&D from Marshalltown, Iowa to Dallas, TX. Retired to East Texas 2008, have a Kubota L3200 and that's how I found your channel which I enjoy. You are a very lucky young man….take care and keep making videos👍
Lived in E-Town after I got out of the Navy and was working at TMI cleaning up after the accident. Moved on when that was done but then ended up at York working for Cat. Until they closed down. Alive and happy in Wyoming now. Good luck at your new location! I enjoy the videos.
I worked there from the day it opened January 1978 till the day it closed December 20 2021. have a lot of good memories and some bad ones!!!
Thanks for the tour at the new building. It was great to meet you 3/15/2022
A fun to see video. It seems a more and more rare thing that a young person can have the experience you have had growing up in a real family business. It says a lot about your family that it is still a family business.
Yep, it's got to be tough moving out.. It's been your family's "home" since the beginning of the company.. Wishing your family much success in the new facility.
nice trip down memory lane.i know how your grandpa feels real proud of the way your handling the business .
I remember coming to this location as a very young kid back in the 80’s. Always excited to go to Messick’s with Dad or Grandpa. Thanks for sharing Neil.
WOW definitely impressive what is accomplished in a great family business. Definitely a ton of memories for sure. Very interesting Neil.
Thanks for sharing your memories of family and work. I enjoyed the history aspect of it. Can’t wait to see your new set up!
Neil,
I have moved over 30 times over my life and spent over 20 yrs overseas....a little bit older than you. I can't imagine living in one place all these years......but it sounds great to work with your family and work in a business from early childhood to now. The connections you have to the places and the people in that location is fantastic.
I'm sure there are a lot of stories tied to those moves.
Hi Neil! Thanks for taking us down memory lane with you. Great stories and I can see why it’s hard to say goodbye to the place where it all started. I live in Georgia but I am a Messick’s customer through your website and the proud owner of a Kubota L3901. I wish all of you continued success in your Mt Joy location!
Neil, great job on the history. Thanks for expanding the business and all the support you provide to the tractor owners who don't have local dealers to turn to. Your parts dept is top rate and super helpful. Bill Church
No wonder the roof is so bad, been there since '78. Great stories and great memories. Enjoyed hearing them. Be sure to lay the ground work for you children to have the same with the new place.
What a great video. Great to see a family owned business being successful. You do a fantastic job on your videos and I personally have learned a mountain of useful information from them. Thank you to you and your family. Hopefully Grandpa is still helping out?
Grandpa passed a few years ago, but many fond memories of him helping out.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
There's nothing better than memories that make you feel like a kid again!
Neil, Thanks for sharing. I enjoy watching all of your videos and learning cool tips and things. I wish you were closer to Massachusetts. I have been buying parts there for years. Due to your distance I can't buy any machines from you. Some day I hope to visit just to check out your huge operation.
Keep up all the informative videos. I look forward to it when you post new content. Thanks again.
Bought my first kubota tractor from that store MX5200 in 2015 and many attachments best sales guys great help and bet everyone’s price in eastern Pa. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
GREAT MEMORIES, hope you have this all noted, this a good bit of history.... take pictures of this old site..... 😊👍
Very neat to hear your stories. Has to be bittersweet and know your kids will one day have their own memories as you do. Really appreciate you sharing.
I'm on the West coast so I've never been to your facility, but thanks for sharing. Best of luck in your new facilities- I'm sure it has its own excitement and will start building fond memories for all involved.
Memories, are the best I’ve always thought they were wonderful.
Sad to see it go! Will have to visit the site in MT Joy. I'm from E-town and spent a lot of time at this location as a kid with my dad and as an adult picking up parts for my tractor. I live in Maryland, so any time there is a trip to E-Town to visit the folks, there is always a stop in at Messick's. Great people, great support and they always have what you need. Best wishes for the new location. R. Norris
Thanks Neil, I really enjoyed the your memories. Great video!👍🏻👍🏻
Great family work ethic instilled thru this business. The open house is something not seen around here, but would be awesome to have. The kids attending with their grandpas at new location will have great memories as well.
Thank you Neil for all that you and your family does. I live too far away to buy a tractor from you but I bought parts and other items and you have made a big influence on my Tractor purchases in the last five years.
You know your doing something really correct when your grandfather hands down a business and it's still thriving decades later.I'm all kubota and canadian,BUT,come to this channel for informative and helpful info.Thanks for the tour.
I wish you all the best moving forward and want to thank you for the production of your videos. As a new tractor owner 10 years ago, I gained much valuable information and knowledge from your videos that I may never have been exposed too without your helpful information. Thanks very
Wonderful video. You will always have the videos here on UA-cam, but now you move on to bigger things but remembering your past. Thank you
Interesting , Thank You . Good luck in you're new location. I hope that you took what you learned and made the new shop better .
Good luck at your new location Neil.
Wishing you the best and new adventures.
Time changes all and what’s for no one , so now you and the group are starting a new chapter. Good luck to you all .
This was a great video thanks for sharing the memories and good luck in the new location I hope to get over to see its in the near future.
Great video, Neil. Love hearing the family and business history.
Great vid Neil and nice to hear about the history of the property,
All the best for the future 🤝
Good memories Neil 20 years down the road your young sons will be doing videos.
It usually does not work out like that.
Love the stories! I've moved a million times, I can't imagine having roots that deep.
I've aways traveled and always wanted to see different places and people.Now 73 I've slowed down.
I'm happy for your move. I pray many blessings to your family and work families. I truly feel the emotion of change. It sometimes sucks. But we must move forward!
That was very interesting, thanks.
That's a beautiful thing. It's good that enough of your family stuck together enough to keep a business going for such a long time. Really is good stuff.
My dad and his brother had a quite successful business, but then things happened and now we have nothing lol
Funny enough, if it were still a thing we would be a bunch of bald guys running a haircare empire
Great stories! I can really appreciate the history of the family business. I’m sure it’s going to be hard to leave the area. Thanks for sharing.
Great video of great memories. I was more of a customer of Abbottstown facility as I lived close to there. What is the chance I could get a piece of shingle from E-town roof. Your famous backdrop lol. Best wishes to all. I am in Florida now and not sure if and when I will get to see the new facilty. Best wishes!
great walk down memory lane, I know you are sad but as the times change so do your shop. And your new location is beautiful. I was born and raised in York Pa. but in 1965 went into the USAF and now live in San Antonio Tx. And I have gotten parts from you even now.
Thanks for all your great video's.
😥 best of luck with the new digs
Well done, now onward an upward!!!!
Great video Neal! really enjoyed the history
Excellent video Neil! I too have a background in IT. I have never been to Messicks in PA but like quite a few others are customers via the website. I never thought I would subscribe to a equipment company but I own a Kubota RTV X1120D. Good luck I pray for success in your new location.
Thanks
Great videos Neil, definitely a different flavor than your typical content but a very good video that was entertaining and interesting to watch. It is amazing when you stop and think the amount of memories that are in a building
Very cool to have those memories. Good luck wit the new shop. Unfortunately no Messicks here in south eastern British Columbia :(
Great tour and great stories.
Thanks for sharing.
Great stories!
I should have known you were an IT guy at heart... explains why I've enjoyed your videos and the way you explain things so much.
Agree. I retired after 30 yrs in IT.
Thanks, Jon Cryer.
Nice One Neil Thanks Again
I have some good ones from up there too. As a kid in the 90's I remember riding along with dad and going in many times. The $.10 gumball machine and checking out the latest toys. If we had time we'd drive around the lower lot on the way out to see what was just traded. There was one open house with a pedal tractor pull, I remember this one girl pulled the steering wheel off. Also did a lot of parts runs when I could drive myself. I remember a lot of different people from up there too. Too many to mention. It always felt like family, always friendly and helpful. Now dad remembers where you were at first on 230 and how big a deal it was moving then.
Great video Neil 🙂 We drive by every spring and fall coming and going to the Carlisle Pennsylvania car swap meets. Looking forward to seeing your new store! 😀
Sad, thought I was going to see the old bank and say goodbye to the shingles for one last time...........Not a local guy there, but drove by on 283 once every year or two and the changes there over time have sure been amazing............Atleast it has moved on to a new spot unlike so many dealers who have passed on only to leave behind just memories and a empty building.
Great job Neil.
Bless you , your family… and business. If y’all only had a dealership here in Texas. I would love to trade with Messicks
Neil, let's hope that your grandchildren will carry on the family tradition and will be telling great heartfull stories of their grandfather also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
you should do a drone look at the place footage to show how big the place was
Cool vid , great memories !
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Great video thanks
"Newlyweds"... 🤣
I didn't expect to enjoy this video as much as I did.
Yep I remember when dad and I would go to John Deere days now jd around here don’t do anything for customer appreciation
very cool
Fix the damn roof!
Never got to see your old place and I missed your grand opening at your new place. Might just ride my motorcycle over to say high this summer sometime.
Gald to say hi
Nice video Neil 👍🏻😎, do you know what the new owners plan for the property?
RV dealership
On one of your earlier tours, you mentioned there was a storage
facility some distance from the E-town store. Is that remote
location still operational?
Yes, although we are keeping much less equipment there.
Was Messick's originally an International Harvester dealership?
Yes
@@MessicksEquip I was just curious as to why you wouldn't mention that in your About Us history.
i'm just curious why you took out the police station footage Neil. Great job anyway!
Was just a bunch of complaining, not stories so much.
Is it true Kubota is requiring dealers to have at least a 5 acre lot and a brand new facility?
No. There are some standards, but they're extremely low.
didn't you also have a sheriff's building?
What is happening to old building
So it looks like none of us will be able to post anymore "When are you going to re-shingle that roof? It looks ugly".
And now we know why you didn't spend the money getting it fixed.
Yup 👍😀