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Oldest piece of equipment you farm with

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My wife thinks nobody Farms with old equipment post a picture of your oldest piece of equipment you farm with. Or just say how old it is.
 
I always say if I had to farm with horses when I started farming, I would have had a good paying easy job all these years.
 
Guess it depends on what you mean by "farming".
I'm not making my living at it, but still using a 1936 Farmall, a 1941
Ford 9N and several other old tractors for gardens, food plots, etc.

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I work on peoples farm tractors for a cheap price. I can say that they farm with John Deere, farmall, I.H. ,ford,Allis Chalmers and many other types. The years that I work on are between 1930 to 1965 in tractor repairs. They are all used because they are dependable and reasonable to buy. AS you can see my last repair job was a I.H. two plow Model #39 roll over. made back in 1940. Brent
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Oldest tractor is a 46 Farmall M (pulled the grain drill this spring) newest tractor is a 67 IH 1206 that does my tillage work plus runs the haybine and baler.

Rick
 
I don't farm but we a have a 1952 ford 8n and a case 1960 something. Then there's still some horse drawn equipment here
 
My Victor broadcast seeder. I bought it more than 50 years ago and mounted it on a rubber tired trailer. It was on a wooden wheeled cart that fell apart towing it home. It was probably 50 years old then.
 
Some of you may have seen the videos of the old stuff I farm with. The 61 year old Cockshutt 40 keeps my driveway open all winter. The 50 powers the even older IH hammer mill.
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I sometimes helped my neighbor, until he passed last year, with horse drawn stuff, but we pulled it with a lawnmower without a deck on it.
 
Drilling soybeans. The tractor is a 1937 John Deere B. The grain drill is a John Deere Van Brunt Model FF, 11 hole, flute feed. Originally horse drawn. I bought it from the son of the original owner 22 years ago. I'm not sure of the date built, but the original paperwork was printed in 1921. The Jeep is a 1956 Willys M38a1 military.
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I can't get pics from my iPhone to here, but I have a few. I use tractors much newer for tillage, but a 47 and 49 farmall get nearly daily use around the farm for other chores. The straight truck (backup grain truck) is a 58 GMC. I won't have to use it for the terrible wheat crop this year, but it ran 7 loads a day all harvest last year without a hickup. It doesn't help that the combine bin is the same size as the truck box. My how times have changed. The same size truck was three bin fulls growing up. She'd probably haul more than 200 bushels, but I figure she's done enough hard work in her life.
 
This is the first year I've used this. I bought it at an auction for $35.00 last fall. I think it's a Van Brunt Deere FF flute feed or very similar. I think horse-drawn originally. Did a nice job with oats.

Larry
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Oldest tractor is a 46 model JD A, the oldest implements are a 1920's model potato digger and a early 1930's Iron Age potato planter that's used every year.
 
Everything I farm with is old.From my '37 F12/loader,to my '53 super H/M,to the 'big' ones: '67 706 and 1256.My '56 JD#70 corn planter,the '58 JD 55 combine and '65 JD 95 combine.The list goes on.........
 
Pop's [maybe Grandpa's] old 1920 locomotive steam boiler made into a field roller. I've rebuilt the frame twice, works great.
 
The oldest thing that is used on a some what regularly is a John Deere grain binder that was built in 1916 or 1917. No pictures on this computer or I would post them.
 
I have nothing newer than 1977 in tractors, my newest combine is a 1970, I farm 750 acres, I also do custom harvesting as well
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If I had 2 pull type hay rakes and the old girl was easier to start I would rake hay with my 1935 JD-B more but getting old and being hand start I do not use her as much as I should. She was my grandfathers and I played on it when I was a kid and so have my grand kids. By the way that is my son making him the 4th generation on it
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'47 Farmall H. Also have a Ferguson TO-25 and a Ford 9N. The Ford is laid up with spark and fuel issues. Newest tractor on the farm is a '78 Ford 2600, but the Farmall and Ferguson handle most of the work.

For implements, not sure of the dates on any of 'em, but the Ferguson is fitted with a Dearborn trip loader. I have a Ford 2-bottom plow and IH manure spreader and sickle bar mower. My brother has an old horse drawn disc he keeps out here and it does get used.
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Don't farm, but the tractor is late 30's, Disc is around 50's. The tractor still earns a good day's wage. The Chevy Flat bed is 54. Dad bought it new. Stan
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Don't farm any more gave up truck farming 5 years ago and rent the ground out. If photos works the old W-30 is the oldest tractor I have used on place.
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(quoted from post at 01:00:27 06/28/14) The oldest thing that is used on a some what regularly is a John Deere grain binder that was built in 1916 or 1917. No pictures on this computer or I would post them.
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I still use an Adriance-Platt grain binder of the same vintage. Next oldest would probably be my IHC thresher. Oldest tractor is a 47 Case VAC. I think the Cockshutt 30 is next oldest followed by a Case VAI, JD 40C, Cat D47U and another VAC, then the Ford 800, Case 811B, DB 990. In the garden end of things I'm still using several Gravelys and Planet Jr cultivators from the 40's, 50's and 60's and a Frazer Rototiller from the 50's. I have a McCulloch 1-53 that from 59, same as me, and several other older saws from the 60's and 70's most people would never think to try to use. My air compressor, a Wayne, dates from 1961 IIRC. My still useful Atlas lathe and shaper are fromthe late 50's too.

Lots of old, still used stuff here.
 
I don't have any pictures on my phone but we have a old Van Brunt 8' drill on steel wheels similar to this. It's a double disk & seeds oats very nice. Last year we seeded grass with it. It doesn't have a grass attachment but we improvised with closing the sieves until we had the right pour. There's writing inside the bin cover with seeding rates that are dated back to '30s. We pull it with a '46 John Deere B. Our newest tractor is a 1971 Case 1170
 
(quoted from post at 19:17:48 06/27/14) Anyone use horse-drawn equipment
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Not for farming, but this grader is excellent for driveway maintenance. No idea how old it is, but it's a Galion.
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Works better than this Galion for my driveway.

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I don't have any pictures handy, but we use two 1948 Farmall H tractors, mostly for haying where our heavy hay conditioner cannot run (particularly where there is a lot of soft ground and rocks). One pulls a NH 258 side delivery rake and the other pulls a Case IH 1100 9 foot mower. They also get used on augers, pulling drags, and moving machinery around the yard. Very easy on fuel and pretty maneuverable!
Lon
 
All my equipment is pre 1960's. My oldest would be the horse drawn potato digger I got for $25 that was headed to the scrapper. I fixed a bent wheel and just built a new digger plate. Works good.
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Did all my winter feeding until a few years ago. A 1951 WD with a 53 tranny and rear end.
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Don't know if you would call it farming, we are a maple syrup producer, I have two tractors, a 1962 Nuffield 455 and a 1978 Leland. My Uncle gave me the Nuffield for wiring his barn. I like the Nuffield best because the weight is all in the back which makes it better for working in the bush. In the winter I always keep one in the garage with the snowblower on.
 
Nuffield and a Leland. Are you in Europe Bill?
The Nuffield would be a bit of a rarity here in the states.
 
I use a 1939 Ford 9n almost every day for hauling produce out of the patches or spraying, etc. I mow my orchard with a 1926 IHC #6 mower, horse drawn originally but now pulled with the 9n or the 49 Cub. My newest piece would be the '63 Ford 2000 prior, and it's currently hooked to a 70ish IH 130 sickle mower. I just made the switch from working horses a few years ago so I imagine I have some plows, etc, that are much older.

Mac in AR
 
Royce -- no we are up here in Canada, actually in tourist country. We have just started our second crop, "Tourists", we rent a couple of cottages. I don't know which is more work.
 
1936 F-20 for a yard tractor. 1943 H still goes to the field. 1947 M does too, and also does chores in the winter. Very few days go by that none of them gets used.
 
Well I am not a real farmer (only a recreational hobbyist)

Roughly a 1937 John Deere model 594 hay rake is my oldest piece of equipment that I regularly use (Amazingly, I am 2nd owner it).





Course all my other stuff is old too. 1946 Farmall M, 1948 Case DC3, 1948 John Deere 594 hay rake (I have 2 of these), 1950 John Deere A, 1951 Farmall h, 1953 Ford Jubilee, 195? New Idea model 30A sickle mower, 1960 New Holland 65 baler, 1977 Kubota L285 compact dieseltractor, 1988'ish Hesston 1120 moco.
 
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