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Graber

02-02-2001 17:44:58




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While I was going through my mom's old scrap book,I found my Grandpa's sale bill from his farm sale in 1962. Listed was a JD 630. I asked my aunts and uncle if they remembered who bought it. Nobody did. My uncle did save the stubs from the sale. Back then they always wrote the name of the person who bought an item on the stub. I called the phone company and gave them the name and they gave me a number. I called him and he still had it,35 miles from my place. I finally brought the tractor home this week.Sorry to bore you guys with this story but it was an exciting week for me and I had to tell somebody.

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Billy

02-04-2001 19:03:27




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 Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Graber, 02-02-2001 17:44:58  
My son has the 1945 John Deere A that my dad bought new and I learned to farm on. When my son was around 8 years old I asked my dad if I could by his old A sitting in the grove because my son really liked the old tractor. My dad said if he liked it that much then he should have it, and gave it to me which I gave to my son. My dad left this life 5 years later at the age of 90 and that old tractor means the world to my son because it was "Grandpa's A"

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gary

02-03-2001 19:38:08




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 Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Graber, 02-02-2001 17:44:58  
My friend, don't apologize for that story! That is what we live and breathe for here! I am sure you will treat that old tractor with the reverence that it deserves, and I hope you occasionally think about the important contribution your grandfather made to your family and to this country.



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Mike Young

02-03-2001 17:17:45




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 Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Graber, 02-02-2001 17:44:58  
interested in John Deere 320 if anyone has one would like response we live in NW Ohio. Thanks



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Dick (IL)

02-03-2001 10:57:32




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 Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Graber, 02-02-2001 17:44:58  
Not boring at all! I love these stories. I have one that may interest some of you. I grew up on a small farm southwest of Decatur IL. I live near the old home place now. Dad had a '49 G. My wife grew up on a farm also and her grandad used John Deere. 6 years ago we were driving in Decatur and went by a mobile home park where a G John Deere had been sitting neglected for many years. I said I'd like to see about it, she said lets find out who it belongs to. The owner was under pressure from the city to get rid of it. A deal was struck and we bought that G. It turned out to be a '52, sn 58XXX. I tore into it the next spring. $1600 and three months later I fired it up for the first time. There's just something about the sound of a two cylinder JD that gets to both me and my wife. Sometime later I drove it down to a neighbor's place, also a 2 cylinder fancier, and let him take a look see at it. My neighbor said the home made rear axle step brackets looked familiar to him. I left but about 10 minutes later my neighbor came wheeling into my driveway. He had a big old grin on his face. He'd checked the serial number on our G and it turned out he owned it many years ago. He bought it in 1957 and traded it on a 4020 in the mid '60s. A bit of detective work revealed our G was sold new in in the spring of '52 in Assumption IL to a man whose son-in-law I now work with. We're the 4th documented owner of this G. We parade it and use it for hay rides in the fall. Since I'm short of storage space it now sits in my neighbor's barn amidst the other 2 cylinder tractors in his collection, back where it was 40 years ago.

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Bayou Dave

02-02-2001 19:27:57




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 Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Graber, 02-02-2001 17:44:58  
Congradulations on getting your Grandpa's tractor back! That doesn't happen real easly.



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Pete

02-02-2001 17:56:54




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 Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Graber, 02-02-2001 17:44:58  
Graber, Not boring at all! Waiting for more...pics, condition...these are interesting stories. Nothing more exciting than knowing/finding the history of your old tractor. Finding one which was in the family would be thw ultimate! Pete



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jdeere70

02-02-2001 18:11:08




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 Re: Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Pete, 02-02-2001 17:56:54  
That`s a great story. I have a 70 that I bought from a friends estate. He bought it new in 1953. If you are interested in more about it and seeing the tractor click on my link. Scott



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Pete

02-02-2001 18:42:58




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 Re: Re: Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to jdeere70, 02-02-2001 18:11:08  
Hey 70, great sight, especially like the 70, Dad and i restored one last year, a '53 gas, no ps, bought it as a basket case, spent lots getting it going, but love it now. We are color blind so we have red, grey, orange amd more red as well as a couple green ones...only cpmplaint is that that we always seem to pay more for rougher green ones, and then spend more fixing them too. Don't complain too loudly though. Question is, have you ever pulled the 70? We love to pull, but don't modify other than overbore where needed. Many pulls around here are classed by plow rating, allowed 1 set of rear stock weights per plow bottom, or loaded tires. We usually get thrown into class with 720's and 730's and it's no fun.
We run windshield washer fluid in the rears (14.9-38) and have never powered out except in 2nd gear.
On the rare occassion when we have been at weigh pulls, we were in the 7000# class against Super M's and such and have done real well, even with the high 1st gear. Still playing with the drawbar length/height. Have fun!

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jdeere70

02-02-2001 21:24:49




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Grandpa's tractor in reply to Pete, 02-02-2001 18:42:58  
Pete, I`ve pulled the 70 2 or 3 times. I won an 8500 LB class with it in 1998. As you can see from my website I usually pull the G. What I really prefer to pull is the 4010! But the old G does pretty well when the operator isn`t suffering from HUA! Thanks for the kind words. Scott

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