You have come to the right place, and will get much good advice here.
Most of it, however, will be mechanical - what manuals to buy, what tools to use. But the most important things a new tractor owner needs to know concern safety issues. There are many ways to get badly hurt or killed on a tractor, and most of them are not intuitive - things like rollovers, frozen tires, fiddling with implements with the PTO running, when to back up a hill or ramp rather than driving frontwards. A new tractor will come with all sorts of built-in safety features, festooned with warning labels warning of specific hazard, and an owners manual filled with even more cautions. Not so your 60-year old antique - you got to got out and find the information for yourself.
Fortunately there are a lot of good extension service and manufacturer's webpages that have the information you need, as googling "tractor safety" will find. Taking the time to do so could easily save you from much grief.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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