Two JD As

larrystinescorner · Feb 25, 2013

These two my dad had for as long as I can remember,I remember him buying one at a sale,dont remember the other,but he did not buy it new,One had the mounted corn picker on it all the time and one had mounted cultivators and side dresser units, My brother still has them,he wishes he had room to keep them inside,they still run good. Any body have or have stories of JD As ?

BAnNC · Feb 25, 2013

Grew up in a small town in the mountains of WNC. One BTO had almost all the river bottom(level)land. They had several JD A's that had to run the roads to get from one field to another. Remember standing on the edge of the yard watching them drag plows, disc, etc. up the hill and slowly gain speed as they hit the level spot. Putt-Putt could be heard long before you could see them. Skinny little fellow that worked for them standing up bouncing along. Still see that sight in my mind.

Buckeye · Feb 25, 2013

1944 John Deere A pulling a 12A combine several years ago. I think the early styled A is the best sounding two-cylinder. I really enjoyed using the pair!

Randysouthmississippi · Feb 25, 2013

The first tractor i operated was an A, nothing like the sound of them running. We farmed cotton, corn and a few truck crops early on and then got into the dairy business. We still used the two cylinders right up til the last, we had an A and a B and a 50 and 60 and the last one was a 620, we had only one of the new gen and it was a 2030 i think, i didnt pay that much attention to it the johnny poppers had my attention.

fixerupper · Feb 25, 2013

Dad's first tractor was a 47 ANH. He was starting farming and wanted to start with a new tractor as he had saved up enough money for a new one. New tractors were hard to find in the fall of 47 but the local dealer had this new ANH sitting on the lot so dad bought it. Remember, this is northwest Iowa where nobody has a use for a tractor of that configuration. It was one of the first gas A's and was burning exhaust valves so the dealer put rotators on the exhaust valves at Deere's expense and that solved the problem. He never did like that tractor. It was taller and the front mounted cultivator wouldn't dig well because the linkage pulled up. It had the extra long rear axles that stuck out too far and caught fence posts. In 1951 he traded it for a new 1951 A and that tractor is still on this farm and is still running. It's the first tractor I drove and it's the first tractor my son drove.

About ten years ago that ANH was on a local farm sale. I wanted to buy it so darned bad but I didn't figure I had the money to do it, so it slipped away. Jim

kruser · Feb 25, 2013

Larry,
The Dottir's 1952 Model A we purchased on my cousin's sale last summer.

This picture is titled "Family Affair Field Repair". Pretty sure you know the rest of the story!

twostepn2001 · Feb 25, 2013

I saw this one at a auction last year. I'm not a JD guy so I'm not sure it's a model A? I took the pic because of the stripper mounted on it.

greenmech · Feb 25, 2013

Here's one of my A's Ron Mn

greenmech · Feb 25, 2013

Here' the pic, sorry. Ron Mn.

DeltaRed · Feb 25, 2013

There is an early styled flywheel start A down the road that I have been trying to buy for 5 years or so.It has a old style IH wide front grafted to it and a Farmall seat assy. on it.Sorry I dont have a pic.

Mike M · Feb 25, 2013

Do yourselves and the tractors a favor and also cover the air intake stacks. I have seen rain get into them and fill up the air cleaner and then the carb. and then the cylinders.

Larry NEIL · Feb 25, 2013

One of the ffirst tractors I drove was an unstyled '37 JDA

SweetFeet · Feb 25, 2013

larry@stines,

Neat photo. Your dad had a lot of tractors.

My husband has one of those small cement mixers (ours is smaller, I think). A guy gave it to him. Works great.

Nancy Howell · Feb 25, 2013

My Dad grew up around Gosport, Indiana. He would hire out to the local farmers and drove A's.

After he retired from the Air Force and moved back to Gosport, he bought a 1948 A to pull the wood wagon.

When he passed, we needed a tractor and drove James' 1965 heavy 1/2 ton p/u with a 16 ft trailer 980 miles one way to Gosport, loaded up the tractor and came home.

That was the tractor that got us started on JDs. We still have and use that tractor. Its my personal tractor and of course my favorite of the 14 vintage JDs we now have.

When James reads this, he'll add a pic.

Mike (WA) · Feb 25, 2013

I bought a styled A from a neighbor back in the '70's, primarily because he was moving and wanted to sell it pretty bad. It had a 2 way plow mounted on it- I never did use it, but it looked like it would work. I ended up selling it to a collector who was a relative of a relative- he has since died, don't know what became of his collection, or the tractor.

Kind of wish I had kept it, now- but 40 years ago, it was just another old tractor.

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