fixerupper
Well-known Member
My dad bought a new 630 in the fall of 1960. He could have bought a new gen but thought those new 4 and 6 cylinder Deere’s were too new and unproven. Anyway, the 630 was bought through a dealer in Peterson Iowa but it had a dealer sticker from a Nebraska City Deere dealership. Do any of you guys from the south of Omaha area remember the name of that dealership?
I can still remember vividly when that 630 came up the lane on the back of a Chevy straight truck. The truck pulled in right before I had to get on the school bus that morning. I don’t think I remembered anything I learned that day in school. All I could think about was that new 630 on the truck. I was nine years old at the time. When I got home from school I went straight to the new 630 and when I climbed aboard I couldn’t figure out what that extra foot pedal beside the clutch lever was for. I finally found out it was the PTO pedal. I was used to the PTO lever beside the seat on the 60 I drove when we baled hay. Now I’m going down memory lane again! He traded in a 1950 B for the 630. He had the B only two years. He claimed the B used too much fuel for the horsepower. I still have the 630 58 years and close to 20,000 hours later. It still starts first time up with no choke but will die in a few seconds if the choke isn’t pulled out, just like it did when it was new.
I can still remember vividly when that 630 came up the lane on the back of a Chevy straight truck. The truck pulled in right before I had to get on the school bus that morning. I don’t think I remembered anything I learned that day in school. All I could think about was that new 630 on the truck. I was nine years old at the time. When I got home from school I went straight to the new 630 and when I climbed aboard I couldn’t figure out what that extra foot pedal beside the clutch lever was for. I finally found out it was the PTO pedal. I was used to the PTO lever beside the seat on the 60 I drove when we baled hay. Now I’m going down memory lane again! He traded in a 1950 B for the 630. He had the B only two years. He claimed the B used too much fuel for the horsepower. I still have the 630 58 years and close to 20,000 hours later. It still starts first time up with no choke but will die in a few seconds if the choke isn’t pulled out, just like it did when it was new.