Regular will be plowing first time in about 50 years.

SweetFeet

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Small neighborhood plow day after lunch today. The tractor is already there... we'll be plowing in about an hour.

This will be our Regular's first time plowing in about 50 years. She did well sickle mowing the field lanes this summer.

We just bought a rusty Little Genius to go wiht our rusty Reg... but that plow is not ready to roll yet - so have to use our painted one today.

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Wonderful photo, SF.

M late uncle bought a new Regular in 1927. Sometine thereafter he converted the engine to F-20 specs and added a hydraulic pump in the driveline in front of the transmission to operate a trip bucket loader that he used to deal with the manuer of his small dairy operation.

The Regular was his only tractor until sometime in the mid 1950s when he bought a used F-30 as his "big" tractor. Though small, I remember going with my Father and Uncle to look at the F-30 before he bought it.

He used both on his 70 acre dairy, and tobacco farm until he passed in 1986. As he never married, my Father inherited his equipment when he passed. I well remember both tractors. Both were easily started by crank if you knew the proper technique, which I learned.

The Regular had been converted to rubber once the county paved the road past my Uncle's farm and notified him that he could no longer operate his steel wheeled tractor on the road between his house and barn and other fields on his farm.

The F-30 was pristine, OEM F & R rubber on round spokes with both F & R weights. It had both generator and lights but no starter, which was not needed as, as a child, I well remember my Uncle starting it with one hand (he well knew the technique). Both tractors had fully functional cable operated turning brakes. The Regular had a complete set of disc cultivators, bought with the tractor.

I well remember selling the Regular about 20 years ago with thecultivators, original Farmall brochure, owners manual and payment book.

As a child, I spent hours standing on the drawbar of the Regular as my uncle loaded his spreader with the Regular before spreading the load on his hay and tobacco fields with the F-30.

Dean
 
Hmmmm, not sure I have ever seen a steel-wheeled tractor pulling a plow with rubber tires!!! :) Looks AWESOME!! Can't wait to see some "working hard" pictures! Bryce
 
Since is almost 5PM on east coast I will settle on any evidence, pics or videos, you have of the plowing :D
 
Last fall my son had a plow day with a few friends. One of them had a Regular he had fixed up the previous winter. It pulled 2x14's pretty well on our black heavy soil. It was on rubber but he didnt have a whole lot of traction trouble.
 
fixerupper,

The Regular and the plow both performed really well. Husband was very pleased.

I got some beautiful photos... blue sky with clouds made a great plow day backdrop. Will have to post a few of them sometime this week.

I even made a round plowing - but spent most of my time taking photos.
 
LOL... yeah, usually seems like it's the other way around.

Next year the plow will be our "new" one.. pure rust and steel wheels.
 
Thank you.

That's really something that your uncle used strictly his Regular for nearly 30 years. I bet the person you sold it too delighted to buy a one owner tractor with all the original documentation. That's pretty neat. Do you ever wish you still owned it?

We have French and Hecht's round spokes on our F-20.
 
I'd love to see the pics of it at work. When my son's friend was plowing with his regular it was so darned cold i didn't want to take the gloves off to take pics. His Regular sat in a grove many years, was drug out, engine freed up and made to run but barely. Then it sat for another ten years or maybe more before he bought it, replaced one piston and sleeve, did a valve job and replaced a few gaskets and seals. Anyway, it purrs like a kitten now. Jim
 
Thanks, ultradog.

I'll have to make it a goal to get a youtube account so I can post videos. Have thought of it... but just keep putting in on the back burner.
 
I'll get some pics posted soon.

I can relate... cold plow days are not quite as
much fun. Last's year it was held on November 3
and it was brutally cold and windy. Still took
photos then, but it hurt your hands.

Our Regular sat for over 45 years out in a
woods. Engine was stuck, clutch was frozen, gas
tanks were both rusted away, carburetor top was
warped, tires and rims were rotten. Big 'ol
hole in the valve cover... complete with a
nasty chipmunk nest full of acorns and poo on
top of the head. Clutch was seized up. I'm sure
I must be forgetting some problems... LOL.

It has been a big, long-term project. Now she's
got parts on her from MN, IA, TN, SD and NE.
I'm sure we've got so much sunk into her that
we can never afford to sell her... but that's
OK, we don't ever want to. :)
 

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