Most deleted Farmall ever seen?

NY 986

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I got thinking about when a distant relative sold out close to 15 years ago. They had a 1940 M that had a swinging drawbar and belt drive. No generator or lights. No battery or starter. No PTO. No Liftall. NFE. Kerosene. Not having PTO makes me wonder what they had for implements back in the day. Trip plows. Belt driven blower.
 
Ground driven Grain Binder, hand lift 2 row cultivator, straight disk, Belt driven hammer mill or burr mill. Corn planter or grain drill would of had rope lift.
 
I have a 'delete' 400.No Lpto;No Ta;One hydraulic valve;hoop drawbar;narrow front(I did switch to a wide recently).No power steering. Baisicly an M in 400 'clothes'.
 
I saw an H once at a show with nothing on it. Just steel wheels and completely bare of any accessories. Talk about a simple machine.
 
You could add a ground driven corn binder to that list. We used to fill silo with a belt driven silage chopper at the silo run by our MD. The super
A pulled the corn binder and the C pulled the wagon and man power loaded the very heavy green corn bundles on the wagon. It was easier at
the silo pulling the bundles onto the silage chopper conveyor.
 
Sounds a lot like the 41 John Deere A grandpa bought new. It didn't have a starter or lights. Hand lift cultivator. Grandpa didn't have any PTO equipment or anything hydraulic. Grandpa use that tractor till 1965 then he bought an Oliver 1850. That was a real upgrade!
 
Back then everything was pull type. they also were used in lumber as the put a pulley on the side to run saw mills. Not sure when the 3pt came into play as that little invention sure changed a lot of things. I remember back in the 50s when bailing hay mowers, rakes were all pull type. corn shellers were mounted on the tractors as were culivatrs. I'm guessing it probably wasn't until the 70s everyone was going to the fast hitch. 3 pt. just saying.
 
Don, The silo is still standing at the Dry Fork home place as I drove by there the other day taking the shortcut between Hwy O and 72. Crossed the cement bridge over Little Dry Fork and have many memories of playing ball at church and other local picnics held in the old little park on the north side of the road there at the creek I think (before my time a little) where the saw mill was once located. Hope all is well, Hal.
 
(quoted from post at 11:09:58 10/22/17) I got thinking about when a distant relative sold out close to 15 years ago. They had a 1940 M that had a swinging drawbar and belt drive. No generator or lights. No battery or starter. No PTO. No Liftall. NFE. Kerosene. Not having PTO makes me wonder what they had for implements back in the day. Trip plows. Belt driven blower.

Actually, none of that stuff was deleted. Everything you mentioned was an optional, extra cost, add-on accessory. If it was not standard equipment from the factory, it cannot be deleted.
 
The sawmill was washed away in the flood in 1945. There may have been some remnants left after the flood, but the mill never ran after that. It was not long after that when a new sawmill was installed behind the farm house. That sawmill came from sears. I have no idea what became of it. Nearly all the lumber used on our farm came from trees on the farm sawed on that sears sawmill.
 

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