Indiana Rust (w/ apologies to kcm.MN)

Not wanting to step on anyone's toes, here, I found this down the road from my place and thought I'd share. It's a shame, looks like the ol' Deere was in pretty good shape when she was parked. Makes me wonder what could have been wrong w/ this outfit to just let it waste away like it is? Hope you enjoy!


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wow.. looks like its been sitting a long time to be that rusty. would make a cool black and white photo or a cool picture with snow too.

i've often wondered why good stuff (assuming it was good when parked) is left to go bad. Who knows. maybe the battery was dead and they couldn't get to it and then too many other things came in the way and they didn't need it so it sat and then it was too late. Happened to my grandmother's old WC Allis Chalmers. 1 rear tire went bad (rim) and it sat. Uncle was too occupied with other things and never "got a round to it" and then the motor got stuck and it sat some more and then it went for scrap. would have like to have had it as it would have been a family heirloom. I'm sure my grandfather didn't buy it new but it wasn't too old. was the only tractor on the farm and he did a TON of custom work during the war. I have some of his farm diaries in an old Firestone notebook and another in an old John Deere notebook (lots of cool JD equipment pictures) where he wrote everything down. 5cents for oil, paid so and so to help fill silo for someone, $1 for gas ect ect.
 
Oh memories. Pa bought a 2010 in ?76 and bought a NI
mounted picker. That fall the PTO clutch went out during
harvest. The next fall the PTO clutch went out twice during
harvest. In the spring of ?78 dad bought a Uni and a 4600. I
often wondered what happened to that 2010.
 

It may have been @ one time, but now its in the sticks behind this tractor. I was going to snap a shot of it too, but was kinda afraid one of those crazy, Jackson-countians may take offense to me nosin' too much! Don't need any rock-salt rash!! :D :D :D
 
Neat photo!

Like INcase - my husband's F-20 was parked in the grove by his grandpa after a tire went bad, and left to sit and deteriorate. Year's later, my husband bought the F-20 from his grandma and restored it.
 
(quoted from post at 07:04:26 03/12/19) Apologies for what?? THAT'S A GREAT PIC!! :lol: :shock: :lol:

Well...the rust pics are your thing, and I know how popular your posts are. They're usually the first thing I look for after I log-in.

I didn't want you to think I was trying to horn in on your posts.
 
I think that's on your side of the line! I believe there use to be an old NH bar baler setting close by too.
 
(quoted from post at 07:18:16 03/12/19) I think that's on your side of the line! I believe there use to be an old NH bar baler setting close by too.

Glad you caught the humor!! I'll have to take a little detour on the way home tonight to see about the Gleaner and the NH baler.
 
(quoted from post at 07:18:01 03/12/19)
(quoted from post at 07:04:26 03/12/19) Apologies for what?? THAT'S A GREAT PIC!! :lol: :shock: :lol:

Well...the rust pics are your thing, and I know how popular your posts are. They're usually the first thing I look for after I log-in.

I didn't want you to think I was trying to horn in on your posts.

Oh, please....horn away! Horn away!! *lol*
 
I am going to guess the fella that used the tractor,
probably crossed over Jordan , and everything was
just left where it had been parked. Seen this sort of
thing happen. Farmer dies, and his wife lives on in
the house, and rents the land till she too passes
 
I posted the John Deere picture years ago. I do think it was there before 1985. Possibly late 1975 era. As an off hand question how would one measure a ton of work. Only way I can think is by weight.
 
(quoted from post at 15:15:33 03/12/19) I posted the John Deere picture years ago. I do think it was there before 1985. Possibly late 1975 era. As an off hand question how would one measure a ton of work. Only way I can think is by weight.

Where ya from Wilson?
 
Don't know that tractor but reason left parked was probably went to combine shelling instead of picking ear corn and NO market for the old pickers. I cannot tell what tractor it is on but probably was decitated to picker use only whem picker was bought and not considered usuable enough to bother trying to take picker as already having plenty of and possibly better tractors. So parked just like the horse drawn mowers were when the tractor replaced the horse.
 
25 years ago there was a John Deere 530 with a 237 picker on it that sat for years near a back road,,it looked about like that,, the old guy would not sell it so it sat there rusting away,,when the old guy died I drove by and the tractor was gone but the picker is still setting there,,I stopped to look it over years ago and the hood was rusting through badly probably from corn trash packed into hidden places..
 

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