'Birthday' tractor

DeltaRed

Well-known Member
I've always wanted a tractor made in 1956(my birth year).A 450 diesel to be exact.At the annual consignment auction(in the 'dead row') there is a 450D. SN 165xx means late 56!I am going to go down and look at the casting codes.Wouldn't it be really cool to find a 11*14*B(56) code?A tractor(atleast part of) made on my birthday?!Now I'm really excited.....Any of you have birthday tractors? Steve
 
I have the original B my Dad bought for me that has castings dated 7*23*47 which was my birthday and delivered less that 3 wks later. That was my 12th b day.
 
I wish I had a 1998 John Deere... Or any make 1998 for that matter!!! :)

Some day, when I am MUCH older, I will buy and restore a 1998.......

Bryce
 
Don't know exact date made, but we were both born in 1942. My birthday is next Saturday.

Gene
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Still have the 1967 JD 3020 Dad and Grandpa bought new the year I was born.

We had a Hart Parr 1836 that was bought the year my dad was born. Currently restoring one the same year, the original was traded off on a new JD A in 1950 which we also still have.

jt
 
I sure do, my W450 diesel is serial # 1957 the same year I was born. that's kinda more important to me than just having one built in the same year.
 
Steve, that would be cool to find something like that! I don't have anything made in my birth year, but I do have a truck build the year I graduated from high school. A 1957 Ford F-100.
 
(quoted from post at 20:03:25 01/24/15) I've always wanted a tractor made in 1956(my birth year).A 450 diesel to be exact.At the annual consignment auction(in the 'dead row') there is a 450D. SN 165xx means late 56!I am going to go down and look at the casting codes.Wouldn't it be really cool to find a 11*14*B(56) code?A tractor(atleast part of) made on my birthday?!Now I'm really excited.....Any of you have birthday tractors? Steve

I have a couple of 51's, the year I was born. A Deere A and an Oliver 88. I have my eye on a 51 SC Case if the owner ever wants to sell it.
 
So then I am 910 months and 6 days older then you are LOL. I have always wanted a tractor made in 56 also but never had one yet. The closes I have gotten it my 1955 Oliver S88
 
Can't think of any tractor made in 1934 that I would want. They didn't have air conditioned cabs back in those days.
 
I was born 11 of 47 and I have a M with casting dates of Sept and Oct of that year so I figure it was built in November. Close enough for me.

Bob
 

Well, being as I am older than dirt I guess that there were no tractors made yet when I was born, LOL.
 
I guess I never had any hankering to own a 1955 Oliver Super series. The darned things had green wheels that year and they looked like the devil.
 
I own a 1957 Massey Ferguson 50 my dad bought new, that was shipped from Detroit factory on my birthday. It was the first tractor I ever drove, first tractor I ever drove by myself, first tractor I ever plowed with, first tractor I ever owned, first tractor I ever painted, and I just happened to be on it the first time I ever saw the woman who became my wife.

It'll haul me to my grave some day.
 
52 Ford 8N. Same age I am. Also my youngest tractor. My Dad's first tractor. I grew up using it. Still use it several times a week. Dragging logs, hauling firewood, preparing garden spots, mowing grass and fields, sometimes just drive it up to my son's shop instead of cranking the Dodge diesel.
Richard in NW SC
Most days, the tractor cranks easier than I do.
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I have my Mother's 1950 Farmall C, which by itself is very special. I'm a 49er, good enough for me.
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I bought a 1972 ford 8000. Always love that model.
I never checked the build dates just happy to have it and the year I was born.
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That looks like the first tractor I bought as a kid at an Acution for $100 with cultivators.

I cry when I think it burnt in a barn fire. Sadder yet is the price they command today and I only paid $100 with 2 row cultivator. I even painted it at school, FFA tractor.
 
all of these were made the same year as I arrived, the last pic the 310 Crawler is the correct year. I cannot seem to find a pic of it alone right now
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my goal has been to own one that was younger than I am. Started with a 40' A, moved up to a 67 806, now have met the goal, a 77' 1486. Got me by one year.
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The John Deere 50 I bought from my mother was built in February 1953, Nine months younger than me. It was the first tractor I drove. Also the first tractor I drove by myself. It was our chore tractor. When I was about 10 years old the 50 had a lot of gas get into the oil and i didn't check it during those years. I was spreading manure and the tractor began to labor hard locking it tight. That was the only time it had an overhaul. The only other tractor we had was a John Deere 60, 1955 model. That tractor is in sad shape with the motor frozen. Breaks my heart to see it sitting there, but with mother in a nursing home and my younger brother expecting to get all dads machinery their is little hope. It has power steering which was nice when I was young and had trouble pulling the clutch if dad had it to tight. I only drove it about 5% of the time. The 50 should out live me and I will see that it does. Richard
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I have a 56 Farmall 400. It has become a problem child. I will not give up on her because of this very thing.
SDE
 

Yap! got a 56 Olie and 56 Allis -- just a coincidence when I bought them that I didn't know the year .
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Back in the late 80's I purchased a 620 John Deere from a farmer that owned it since 10/8/1957.
That was the day he took delivery of the machine
according to what he wrote on the owners manual.
I had asked him for around 10 years if he were ever to sell it, please keep me in Mind. It was
the only GAS tractor he owned, & it sat in a
drive threw corn crib 99% of the time & had little to no use for him. Ad the years passed one day he called me here at work. We agree'd on the
selling price & his son handed me over all the paper work & bill's in his tractor file that had to do with the 620. When I read the delivery date of this machine, I knew then it was suppose to be my tractor. This is my birthday 10/8/1957.. Not
the birthday of the tractor so to say, but close
enough for me.
 


I have two of the same year. Don't know if the months are the same. One is a VC Case, and the other is a Allis Chalmers WC, both 42. In high school I had a 42 Oliver 70, I farmed with for FFA, but sold it in my senior year and bought a 49 Chevy truck to haul pulp wood.
 

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