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jon f mn

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ERTL was probably not invented 80 years ago. We had a shady area between the house and syringa bush where we played with cast iron toys and/or tin trucks that were hard to get. War was on.
 
We had sand to play in probably because mom and grandma were tired of getting yellow clay out of our clothes. Hubley, and Ertl were pulling mowers and balers mde from bent baling wire holding blocks of wood and old spoons for plows. BTO attitude and imagination. JIm
 
Brother still has a collection of Tru-scale farm equipment. ERTL bought out Tru-scale sometime after we grew up, so that probably doesn’t count. That’s as close as i got to farm toys. I did however get to play (really OJT but I didn’t know it at the time) on the real toys at 6 years, as long as I was in the same place as my dad or uncle were working. The real toys included; Ford 8N & Major, Case VAC & SC For tractors. Learned how to drive on the 8N but my favorite at the time was the VAC. John Deere dump rake, Dearborn mounted 2 bottom plow & side delivery rake. Hay racks & trailers. Oh and a rare 1945 Chev farm truck. It was made for the Army during WWII but the war ended before it left the factory. It was repainted and sold to civilians. Still has the green paint underneath the civilian paint job. Not a spec of Crome anywhere. Oh and dad paid for the land, repairs,gas & grease. LOL
 
You are right about new equipment. Every year I got a new John Deere loader tractor, new wagon and one of those generic IH 544 narrow front tractors from someone. I painted on of the IH's orange (with a brush) like grandfathers D15-D17 and one green like Dad's 2520. I also wore out a good many IH 4 bottom reset plows. The plastic bottoms did not last long. Had several Deere 112 chuck wagons as well. Tom
 
I never had any honest-to-goodness toy equipment but I had a farm set with a two story dairy barn, plastic fence for the pasture, plastic milk cans and hay bales, and an assortment of farm animals. I "milked" at least once a day.

Tom in TN
 
Wish I still had the plastic Farmall H or M, but the wire drawbar didn't last long pulling the spoon plow. Then the front wheels went. The plastic SC-DC suffered the same front wheel failure, unfortunately. Either would bring big bucks from collectors today. I probably could find the Case if the hollow cottonwood hadn't fallen down the first winter after I put it in there because I broke the front wheels off. I hid it so wouldn't get scolded for breaking it. With today's glued, it probably could be repaired.
 
Tom, was it similar to this one in metal ?
I was a little rough with my infrastructure, but hey I still have it lol.

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Also rough on machinery, they make up a nice bone yard

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I turned a lot of ground in my grandma's garden with a 2+2 & 7 bottom Deere plow or the Eska 560 & 3 bottom FH plow. Disked with the 470 wing disk. Those were my two favorite outside toy tractor jobs. Grandma liked the job I did as it kept the weeds down around the outside of the garden. Had a Nylint tractor trailer to haul it to & from the house. Used the Tru Scale Scout to get back home. All my hay was made in house. The pickup on the little IH baler is still full of fuzz from the shag carpet. It all went in the barn my grandpa made for me. It was the last thing he built before the Parkinson's got too bad. It is my most treasured farm toy.

Mike
 
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That's the exact barn but I didn't have that lower part under the barn. I loved that thing and my heart was broken when I was a teenager and my mother made me give it to a young nephew that I had. I resented the fact that he didn't provide proper care for it. LOL.

Tom in TN
 
I didn't have ERTL but I did get a full set of JD equipment (including a mower and baler) when I was only 5 - that was 50 years ago. I still have all of the equipment on display in a china cabinet.
 
Did not remember earlier that I was missing the floor of the mow, it may be here in another box with more animals. There is also a dividing section missing for the lower part. Somewhere in the picture boxes I have the Christmas tree side table scene with the new barn. Memories of approx 51 yrs ago. The lower section had imprints of ceiling mounted fluorescent fixtures.
 
I also had many pieces of tru-scale equipment. I'm sure mine came from the local true value hardware store and thought that was the origin of the name. Was Tru-Scale equipment available other places? Maybe that's a dumb question but I don't know and never considered it. The following are all the tru-scale pieces I can think of off the top of my head: 560-type tractor, elevator, grain auger, grain drill, forage chopper with hay head, square baler, two bottom plow with two levers, bigger plow- four bottom pull type, disk, a two section red harrow unsure of brand. I also had John Deere tractors like a 620 and a 3020, a 2 row corn picker, 4 row planter either 495 or 1240, a 6600 combine that I got after destroying the pull type combine- I guess I was a bad kid. I'm pretty sure the 620, picker and pull combine came from an older cousin. And that metal barn looks very familiar but without the base unit. Most of my toys are still in the attic of the house where I grew up. At least I think,they are up there..
Sorry for the length but thanks for the trip down memory lane.
 

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