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grayrider

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In my lifetime I?ve owned several things I?ve sold or gave away or even thrown away that I wish I had back, I?m sure a lot of y?all can relate to this. Well I?ve just posted an ad on Craigslist and will get my wife to post on Facebook too. In 1991 I sold my 1954 John Deere 40T with a rusted out but operational bush-hog for $200, tractor ran ok at that time but needed four tires. My Dad gave it to me when I bought acreage about 7 miles away from the home place. I grew up with this tractor and maybe it hasn?t been scrapped yet, tractor was sold to a man about 35-40 miles north of me then I heard it was sold again to someone back in my neck of the woods, for years now I?ve rode the roads thinking about it and always looking in the fence rows, fields, yards , etc hoping to see it. Picture quality not good and it?s the only pic I?ve found of it that was taken about 1980. Going full steam ahead now and run some ads hoping to see what I can find out, maybe at least I?ll discover who owned it last and the old JD?s fate...
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I have a Dodge pickup I wish I could get back but I know it's long gone. Anyway where about are you located? Do you know it's serial number? I always find these sort of things very interesting and have spent hours looking online and driving around trying to find things. Rarely find what I'm actually looking for but sometimes something even better comes along.

My father in law has been looking for his dad's JD 730 serial # 7302154 for a long time and he has gotten me hooked on trying to find it now too.
 
I?m in Deep South Alabama about 18 miles from the Florida state line, I do not know the tractors serial number but if it still has the galvanized pipe (straight exhaust) that Daddy welded to the exhaust manifold then I could certainly identify it by that. The old gal has got to be still in my stomping grounds unless somebody has done took her to the scrap yard. I remember Daddy driving it home when he bought it about 1966, don?t know why he didn?t borrow a trailer and I don?t ever remember asking him why he drove it home, but it took most of the day as it was about a 52-55 mile drive, we had a VW Van then and Mom was following him that day, the VW being air cooled meant we had to pass and leave him several times to keep the VW from getting too hot, lol
 
Facebook rejects an ISO ad on their marketplace site, so cant post an ad about this tractor on FB, why does this violate FB policy about searching for the whereabouts of this tractor?
 
One of the dumbest things I've done is when I was a stupid teenager, I sold a 1915 Model T Ford for $20. But, back then, a 1915 Model T was worth about $20 and to a teenager $20 was a lot of money. It wasn't original, though. It had been a touring car, and had the body cut off behind the front seat with a wooden pickup box fabricated.
 
On the trailer thing,nobody had trailers like now. Around here you has to drive ten miles to find a welder to build one.
 
In 1966 there were few to none trailers in our area. When we needed to haul a tractor we would load it on a bob truck if possible. If not it was driven.
 
Keep looking, I lost track of my late Uncles 1945 Fordson N tractor 44 years ago in Cambridgeshire 90 miles south of me. 4 years ago it turned up in a farm sale in North Yorkshire 120 miles north of me. I got it bought and rebuilt the engine because it had been barn stored for over 30 years but the rest of the tractor was in good order. MJ
 
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