A good feeling for a Sunday. The tractor I grew up on is finally sitting in my shed. My father decided to retire it this year after over 20,000 hours of service. Just to let you know what this poor thing has been through, it was our biggest horse on our 200 cow dairy. It did all the plowing, all the tillage for that matter, it was the chopper tractor and the baler tractor and it pumped the manure pit. My grandfather quit farming the year we sold the cows on my fathers farm. Now my father farms on a smaller scale but has Grandpap's 4430 for the big work and a nice 4010 and 3020 for the lighter work. After some engine problems with the 4020 back in 2008, we had to overhaul it. Since then he's only put 300 hours on it so he sent it to me for some oil leaks on the back end. After a while he said he didn't have room for it so for now she resides in my shed. This 4020 was purchased new in 1966 by my grandfather and passed to my father in 1979. It was the first tractor I ever drove at 4 years of age. It's a nice sight in my shed.
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Janicholson
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You just cannot have a better option than that. Jim
RandyB(MI)
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Congrats on a scenario that most can only dream of happening. Your biggest descision will be whether to leave it as is or restore it or just make it mechanocally right and leave all the "battle scars" the way they are.Most 4020,s she metal seemed to always get pretty beat up. My opinion is that an old '37 "A" may look good in it's work cloths but a slick metaled 4020 had better be pretty straight originally or else they demand a cosmetic restoration. Seems they either look beautiful or like a turd....not much in between. They are one tractor that you hear no complaints about a perfect base/clear show finish. They have just got "the look". Congrats again. RB
Tx Jim
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It looks very nice for it's age. You'd be surprized what a wax job would do for that paint
Anonymous-0
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Good idea.They are only orginal once.
Turbocharged and it still made it past 20,000 hours? Your family must take good care of your tractors and not abuse them.
The paint looks really good for 46 -47 years and that many hours. Repainting a tractor in that nice original condition would probably hurt its value. When the time eventually comes try a mild buffing compound (abrasive - use it gently and very sparingly) on the sheet metal to remove the top layer of oxidized paint and expose the lower bright green paint. Keep it waxed until then, it may not need anything more.
The paint looks really good for 46 -47 years and that many hours. Repainting a tractor in that nice original condition would probably hurt its value. When the time eventually comes try a mild buffing compound (abrasive - use it gently and very sparingly) on the sheet metal to remove the top layer of oxidized paint and expose the lower bright green paint. Keep it waxed until then, it may not need anything more.
Anonymous-0
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If you want to keep the tractor, better buy it outright, legally and make it yours now. Many times we dont plan on anything ever happening to our close ones, like your father, but things do happen. If he should meet his end, then all the siblings, inlaws, outlaws, relatives, divorced relatives, etc., could and probable will demand the tractor be sold at auction and the money split. You could lose your old family tractor forever. Tom
FarmallRay
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SWEET. keeper just like that.
tomstractorsandtoys1
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Good for you to get it back.Dad sold his 1968 4020 to a neighbor in 1972 who has taken perfect care of it.The neighbor is in failing health and I asked about the tractor and his caretaker said that it is writen in his will that I have first chance to buy it at his death at appraised value.So there may be a chance of getting it back.
Paul from MI
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Don't give up--it took me 18 years to buy the 1942 Farmall H my grandfather bought new. They're not making family tractors like they used to.
Paul like other family tractors there are stories about it. I cut my teeth on it at age 10 in the barnyard at idle in 1st. gear! Grandpa sold it to a neighbor in 1983 for $350. From 1983 to 2008 it was used for road side mowing, running the grain bin augur and pulling an ancient manure spreader. Currently it is in a shed in an eastern Indiana town half torn down to be repainted. That mechanic is very ill so that project stalled.
larrystinescorner
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Its beautiful! Great story too,glad to hear it
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