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I noticed often(most of the time)Someone buys an old
tractor to 'restore',the first thing is the mounted
equipment(cultivators,plows,and especially homemade
loaders) is removed and cut up for scrap.how
heartbraeking!then it becomes just another 'old
tractor'.When the equipment is retained,the tractor
becomes 'alive',it has pourpose,meaning.It had a
job!So folks,if you want to 'stand out',be a little
different,go a little further-include the
equipment!Sorry for rambleing...Steve

Sorry but a tractor at a show that is a show queen with a implement is still a show queen to me.

Rick

Mite be a show queen but those implements can be used in the garden and so forth. Everyone has seen a tractor but having something on it to do a task makes it more interesting and they always get attention.

I have and had some implements for mine. They sure make them harder to load and unload and haul. I could not imagine hauling one with cultivators as they don't lift up real high.
I had a set of cultivators for a JDH and finally figured I may as well sell them to someone who may hopefully have a use for them. Hated to let them go,but I can't keep everything.

Yep got to love them RESTORED tractors . And god help them if they get a speck of dirt on them. Yea i have had a few RESTORED tractors if ya want to call them that . My S/MTA that i biught as a PLANTER tractor to pull my 1240 John Deere plateless planter that was uggly as sin it's self when i bought it covered in hog Shutt with a old I H loader on it . Everything worked EXcept one head light and the BRAKES and around here BRAKES are a good thing . Grill was smashed in and folded around the steering post . Two days of hot water pressure washing lots of wire brushing and two pry bars to get the grill off the ft. end a 12 pack of beer and a evening of beating and wire welding on the gill she got a PAINT job . Just wanted it RED . Picked the worst day to paint Cool pouring down rain and my buddy poured the 2150 to it . The gun was cleaned up and we left Two days latter when we walked into the shop the paint still looked WET , but it was DRY a week went by before the sheet metal was painted and it was cool and raining again and again it looked wet but was dry and shined like it had 20 coats of lacquer hand sanded and polished . Well somuch for the PLANTER tractor so i thought . The first year yea it went to tractor pulls when they were still fun and a couple tractor shows . The next year i needed a tractor to get the beans in and i had NOTHING as everything i had was sold or in a hundred pieces scattered across the shop floor . So the MTA got put on the drill and she drilled in about 42 acres of beans . a little soap and water and you could never tell . Then came hay well agin the S/MTA got the call to run the baler and soap and water did it's thing . In 94 my accountant talked me into taking the S/MTA to the Red Power Roundup . She was one of the 54 /MTA's there that they picked to be on the Video as only two were chosen as it still loked good after three years of getting the bag run off of it in the fields pulls and peraids and coutless miles on the roads and trailer. same as the many 706's and 806's that i have bought repaired and painted . They all could have been show queens and trailer queens but they also got USED till someone just had to buy it . And the only way i can keep a tractor now is keep it BUT UGLY then nobody wants it except me .

What is 2150?

Cant agree with you more. Second sad thing is that in many cases, the impliments are scraped before the Collectors have a chance to save the tractors.

IH 2150 is a paint color designation.

Stan

2150 is the number for IH red paint.

I'll have to tell one on myself. I bought an Deere R out of North Dakota maybe 15 years ago and it had one of those devices that pulls the clutch when the plow hits a rock. The mechanism bolts to the clutch linkage and is connected to the plow with a chain. I thought it was some homemade gizmo so I removed it and threw it away because I wanted the tractor 'authentic'. Later I learned it was factory but just not very popular. Jim

You're absolutely right Red. I took 4 tractors to show last weekend. One had a 1 bottom plow, 1 had a snowplow mounted on it and was pulling a trailer with a 69 Alouette snowmobile on it and one had a rock rake attached to it that I was using before it went to the show and came back and went right to work. Guess which tractors got the most attention.

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately for me, I usually sell the implements to help pay for the restoration. I NEVER scrap them out, I just sell them to offset costs. They really look neat hooked up at a show or just being used.

Personally I like looking at implements just as much as I like looking at tractors, show queen or not a tractor with mounted or trailed implements attracts my attention. I agree, it's sad to see those pieces of ag history disappear.

A guy, a few miles down the road, works for the local scrap yard. He brings home some of the nicest looking equipment that only needs a little bit of work to get going.

Granted, the pieces are rough, but they work!

At our local show we Ford guys had a few implements. Two transplanters, a buzz saw, sickle bar mower, coupla sub soilers , 2 real nice planters,a finish mower, set on half tracks,loader,slip scoop,and a plow.
We had a lot of lookers and enjoyed talking to the visitors.

That being said with the size of the Fords and the three point implements, they are easier to bring. joe