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Farm And Ranch Living magazine had a poll for their subscribers to list their top 10 all-time favorite tractors and here are the results...They were in the Dec-Jan 2015 issue that I received yesterday..I was busy and forgot to vote...

4 of the top 10 were on our farm when I was a kid in the 1950's-60's..4 of the top 15 are currently on my place..How many currently reside at your place?

Top 10
1-Farmall H
2-Ford 8N
3-Farmall M
4-John Deere B
5-John Deere 4020
6-John Deere A
7-Farmall A
8-Ford NAA Golden Jubilee
9-Allis Chalmers WD-45
10-Allis Chalmers WC

Honorable mention
1-Farmall Cub
2-Case VAC
3-Massey Harris 44
4-Minneapolis Moline Z
5-Oliver 70
 
I've got an Oliver 70,had a Farmall H and an 8N Ford,but none of those 15 would make my list.
 
We had number 3 and 9 1/2 assuming it was a WD. Have 4 tractor now, None on the list. There was more WD's and WD 45's around here then have fingers and toes when I was a kid.
 
I'm assuming they were looking for 50's - 1970?The only ones that I've had were an 8N Ford and a 4020 JD and I wouldn't put either of them in the top 10. I would add 806 IH, 1030 Case and 135 Massey.
 
I saw article too, I nominated my 930 case and w-6, I do have an M now, and have had 2 of the others. Don't think I ever saw an AC around the country when I was young, mostly JD and IH, or Rumley once in a while.
 
Most of the subscribers are older and picked their childhood
favorites..I think it was open to any year tractor..
 
I subscribe to Farm and Ranch. They had a section about what the owners had to say about their tractors. One owner had something about a Farmall A having a hand clutch. I think some people may have improvised some kind of a lever to press down the clutch pedal. There were several errors about the NAA and Jubilee. I guess we give a lot more thought to tractors than many do.
 
On this place now: 8N, M, and A Farmall. I think some of the brands had too much variety in the 30s, 40s, and 50s to get named i.e. 30, 33, 101 Jr-Sr-Super, I remember a few of each but not a lot of any.
 
I believe the best farm tractor made was the Massey/Ferguson 35 diesel. They had plenty of power for a two bottom plow and are the easiest and most fun tractor to operate not to mention their great fuel economy.
 
It made number 15,but to be honest,the 70 would be about my least favorite Oliver. I've got one,but I never could fall in love with that tractor.
 
My top 10 (not in order)

Farmall H
Farmall M
John Deere A
John Deere 4020
Allis Chalmers WD 45
Oliver 70 or 77
Oliver 550
Massey Ferguson 135
Ford 8N
Ford 3000
 
Musta been pretty smaII farms and ranches in their day!.
Apart from the JD 4020's they ain't much of a tractor for serious work
:)
 
My good old Farmall "H" is all shined up and ready for Christmas parades. If I could ever get around to connecting with a goose-neck, I'd pull her all over.
Guys, you may not know, but in Christmas parades if you actually WAVE and SMILE at the little kids along the sides, even tho you may feel foolish, the kids absoutely love it. You never seen such grins.
 
(quoted from post at 19:05:38 11/26/14) Farm And Ranch Living magazine had a poll for their subscribers to list their top 10 all-time favorite tractors and here are the results...They were in the Dec-Jan 2015 issue that I received yesterday..I was busy and forgot to vote...

4 of the top 10 were on our farm when I was a kid in the 1950's-60's..4 of the top 15 are currently on my place..How many currently reside at your place?

Top 10
1-Farmall H
2-Ford 8N
3-Farmall M
4-John Deere B
5-John Deere 4020
6-John Deere A
7-Farmall A
8-Ford NAA Golden Jubilee
9-Allis Chalmers WD-45
10-Allis Chalmers WC

Honorable mention
1-Farmall Cub
2-Case VAC
3-Massey Harris 44
4-Minneapolis Moline Z
5-Oliver 70
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IIRC correctly that's one of those glossy coffee table mags. Is that the one? Lots of pictures of rich people on pretty spreads?
 
I don't know if I could stop at 10,but favorites,not tractors I think are best,in no particular order

Oliver 1850,77,66,Super 55/550

Deere 4040 and 1020

Case 1200 and 730 Comfort King

Fordson Dexta,red belly Ford 6000 and County Six

AC D21 and 190
 
(quoted from post at 07:04:01 11/27/14) Musta been pretty smaII farms and ranches in their day!.
Apart from the JD 4020's they ain't much of a tractor for serious work
:)
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Your statement is not wrong if you look at it from a modern farming use perspective, but if you look at it from paying for farms then the list is pretty darned accurate. Back in the early 1930's or so roughly 80% of the population (in the USA) made their living in agriculture. Each following decade saw a roughly 10% decline in that number. Today maybe 2% to 3% live from agriculture.

Lots of land still in family's ownership hands from Farmall h's, Farmall M's, John Deere A's, John Deere B's, and the like. Many of the modern inheriter's do not even farm it yet they own that land do to inheritance and their ancestors using an old tractor like a Farmall and a JD putt putt.

As well as a JD 4020 sold it never came close to a Farmall h at 400,000 plus units sold.

Besides many of those old tractors are still fun to operate and play with as they affordable. I enjoy running all my old dinosaurs, but I admittingly do not want to try to make my living with them. Frankly with the uncertainty in farming, I do not want to attempt to make my living with any tractor whether a 4020 or a brand new one.

Since no one willed me a bunch of land then I consider my opinion totally unbiased. Now had I been willed a bunch of land as inheritance then I can certainly guarantee you that whatever crude and outdated tractor that paid for the biggest portion of my newfound inheritance would be my new all time favorite tractor -even if I chose not to personally use one or any tractor at all.
 
Maybe they meant a hand operated cultivator lever for raising and lowering the cultivators.

Mine over the years:

FM Super A
IH 464
MF TO 20
MF 35D
MF 35 Deluxe
Ford 2000D
Ford 3000D
Ford 4000 SOS
Ford 4600D
JD 4010D
JD 4020

Never ran over 150 acres.

Mark
 
I think so.

Kinda like a couple of the "cowboy" magazines. If you look through them, being a cowboy is about paying enough for a pair of thoroughly worn-out jeans that you should be able to pay for 5-6 pairs of new jeans. The one Christmas gift guide, if I had the cash that every set of clothes in there cost, I could buy my truck again once for each set, and have enough left over for another truck.
 
I am really surprised there isn't a Ferguson on that list. They were just about the only tractor around here for a long time. I also thought that the JD 4020 would be higher on the list.

I have a Farmall H and sold my Massey Harris 44.
 
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