On the post about slang used for tractor makes

Richard G.

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When I was a kid, my brothers and I had a term we used for the johnnypoppers.
My uncles had a 49 A JD and when it sat idling, it made a distinctive sound.
It would fire and then the governor would close the throttle for a few seconds.
It would sound like "Tut tut nun nun, tut tut nun nun"
Thus that tractor was always known as the "Nun tut"
I spent thousands of hours on that tractor on my grandmothers farm.
Thought I was in hog heaven.
Richard in NW SC
 
There was an antique tractor show at a high school here many years ago and a magazine sent a city girl the do an article on it.
She reported that there were Farm Alls there as well as Allis Chamblers and even some Cock and Shoots.
It was hilarious.
Richard
 
Growing up there were only a few JD 2 cylinder tractors left around here. My dad always called them put put tractors. Don't know where he got that from but it was several years before I learned that wasn't their real name.
 
My uncle brought home a little loader tractor, maybe an international 444 or similar model.

His son or wife I forget which looked at it and said something to the effect, that?s the size of a ukulele!

That tractor was called The Uke as long as they owned it.

Paul
 
I?ve heard anything International called ?binders? by the old timers, referencing McCormick International binder threshers. Farmall dealers sold International pickups.
 
The common nickname for IH and Farmall around here was ?cornbinder? especially used for IH trucks.
 
I thought of a couple more. Minneapolis Moline was often called Minnie Mo and I have a friend who calls them ?M &M? like the candy. I like to kid him about his MH and MF tractors by calling them Nasty Harris or Nasty Ferguson.
 
She probably had it right and a know-it-all editor "corrected" it!!!................................gtm
 
My first girfriend's name was Alice Chambers
dad asked me the name of my girlfriend...
he said "you date a tractor ??"


Bart
 

I still refer to my Minneapolis Molines as just "Molines". I also sometimes call my International trucks "Binders". Chevy trucks are known as "stovebolts" or just "bolts", hence the Chevy truck website Stovebolt.com


I think over the years that anyone who has a favorite brand will also have some type of derogatory name for the brands they don't like. Human nature, I guess.
 
Someone told me that the "cornbinder" name came because IHC trucks were rough riding which reminded their drivers and passengers of riding a cornbinder in the days when corn binders were horse drawn.
 
The trucks were always called Intertrashinalls.I ran a cabover Transtar,that was always called the Trashstar.
 
And in my 76 years never heard that in any place except on this site. Never in real life.
 
We had a 40C that idled like that. It would coast so long you thought it had died, then, pop pop.
 

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