Bringing Home The Ds

rusty6 · Sep 18, 2017

Came across this while looking for something else. Way back, about 1989 I think, I helped a friend haul home a couple of old John Deere D tractors from an old farm yard. There was a lot of good old iron sent to the scrap iron place but these two were saved. He drove the 3020 and I rode and steered the rubber tired one. Solid hitch to the rear steel wheeler. Only a few miles haul.

DRCA · Sep 19, 2017

Very cool. Great picture

Philip d · Sep 19, 2017

Very nice! Are steel wheel tractors very bumpy on the road as they might appear or not really too bad?

Texasmark1 · Sep 19, 2017

I'd say that if the surface were as shown in the pic, and as shown in the pic, they would have the ability to dig in and that should soften things a bit. We had a lot of rice farms south of me when growing up and we called them rice tractors with the steel wheels like are shown. I was an urbanite at the time but we'd go down there to bird hunt in the winter and they'd be sitting around waiting for next year's crop.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 19, 2017

great picture!!

John M · Sep 19, 2017

My F14 had steel on it when I got it back. The ONLY time those lugs didnt jar my back was after it rained and the ground was soft. Had the "pleasure" of driving a Fageol once. I was down for a week!

rusty6 · Sep 19, 2017

(quoted from post at 01:43:10 09/19/17) Very nice! Are steel wheel tractors very bumpy on the road as they might appear or not really too bad?

Yes, those steel lugs are notoriously rough riding. When my great uncle bought a new D in the mid 1930s he drove it home from the dealership. This was a two day drive and they left the lugs off for the sake of a smoother drive home.

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