Lichen covered Farmall Regular - pics

Saw this old lichen encrusted Farmall Regular outside a business that restores tractors and equipment. I don't know if it will be restored or parted out to fix other tractors. Tough looking old girl: magneto missing, cracked exhaust manifold, no pulley wheel, platform and mounting bracket of the PTO standardizer is missing, cut-off rear steel - but nice lugs though!.

Just thought it was really neat (wish I could have photographed it "in the wild" where they found it). Have never encountered anything with so many lichens! I think it would be fun to see her running, but still looking as if just drug out of the tractor bone yard.



Someone did paint the carburetor silver! Upon closer examination - it kind of looked as if the entire tractor had been painted silver at one time. Maybe a farmer with paint left over from a tin roof or tin shed...only the tractor knows for sure.

Serial number is #108625. I think it was produced in the end of May 1930. I got the date from Harold Sohner's site about his 1927 Farmall Regular restoration - interesting site, a lot of info technical info on Regulars. He does not sell anything - just a lot of good info.

Sweet we have a spreading maple tree in the front yard with that problem. Rest of the trees are fine. Great pictures!

Now that is what I call a real "patina". What a show piece it would make if the tractor could be made fully functional once again, but leave that patina just as it is.

Cha cha cha Chia!

its liken the lichen, groan. bill

Have a MF 135 with a bad rear wheel and tire parked partially under a maple tree. The drippings, apparently, really bring on the lichens and other cool stuff- looks like a science project. Other stuff parked outside in this country just gets the green algae film like the deck on your house gets over the winter.

It looks to me like it was trying to fit in at a John Deere gathering. Jim

Wow, that Regular really is alive. It would be neat to get it running just like it is and parade it, with road wheels of course.

(quoted from post at 12:48:33 06/09/13) Wow, that Regular really is alive. It would be neat to get it running just like it is and parade it, with road wheels of course.

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I would get a carabou license and wait there. Isn't that what they eat? LOL