Tractors at risk

Bruce from Can. · Feb 12, 2021

These two tractors are at risk of becoming shelves, or future barn finds. They have been sitting inside one of my sheds now going on a few years. Stuff gets set on them and they become poor shelves.

W4 needs its rad repaired.

Poor little VA Case is just trapped behind stuff.
Who else has tractors stashed away, being shelves, show us your shed prisoners .

Hdonly · Feb 12, 2021

Happens to other stuff too. If they have wheels, we should probably move them around more often.

bc · Feb 12, 2021

Well, if it is in the barn, then it automatically becomes a shelf whether it moves or not. Any hook on the wall will have half a dozen things hanging on it. Any rafter can have a few things hanging from it. Just mounted by propane heater from a rafter using small chain. Use baling twine hanging from rafters to spray paint parts. Just put in more shelves around the work bench this week.

J Hamilton · Feb 12, 2021

If I was closer, I'd be happy to give that little VA a good home! lol

Absent Minded Farmer · Feb 12, 2021

No buried tractors, but yours hold no candle to my workbench. Don't think I've seen that in several years.

Mike

TractorTucker · Feb 12, 2021

That is exactly what I was thinking.

Rich'sToys · Feb 12, 2021

When I got my 445 a couple years ago the fellow said it hadn't been used since the 1990's.

I have a John Deere B in my own shop which is almost that bad. Don't have a picture of it handy. It's in about 100 pieces right now; a project that got kind of stalled out. I'd sell it to anyone looking for a project.

As far as workbenches, I have about 30 ft. of workbench in my shop, with only about 18" or so of open space to get any work done!

larry@stinescorner · Feb 12, 2021

fews years back a freind asked me to help him organize

There is a wheelhorse tractor in there

rustred · Feb 12, 2021

if you were closer i would make use of the w4.

1970-1655 · Feb 12, 2021

I have a 1965 Mustang convertible we started restoring. Then life changed. (Daughter left and got married) Project got put off for a month or two. That was 21 years ago. I work on it from time to time until it depresses me, then I leave it for a while. Usually when the urge to work on it hits me I have to move a lot of things off to even see it. By then I am out of the mood again. Typical farm building- (my garage shop is nicer than our farm buildings back when I was young) if something does not move for a month or more it turns into a work bench or storage shelf.

Kansas4010 · Feb 12, 2021

This little Farmall C needs a head gasket when I parked it a couple years ago. Never get around to it because it's to small for big jobs and to big for small jobs. Didn't get used much even before it got parked.

used red MN · Feb 12, 2021

1970, you are describing the 57 Chevy Bel Air 2 dr hardtop in my garage. To embarrassed to post a picture, to be less appalling current status is ..basket case..

bud from bc · Feb 12, 2021

The before picture

TractorTucker · Feb 12, 2021

Is the C for sale? I have a neighbor that would probably be interested in one.

super99 · Feb 12, 2021

This is a before picture, not sure I have an after picture or if I would show it if I did!!

I call it the Money Pit, Motor was weak and then lost oil pressure, It wouldn't move until you got the engine up to 1800 rpm and then it would jump ahead lifting the front wheel off of the ground. All of the hydraulic controls leak past. I thought I would work on it when I retired, but now I'm retired and probably can't afford all that needs done to it. It makes a good place to hang garden hoses in the winter, store partial boxes of siding on top, the bucket is full of stuff, electric cords hanging on the front. At least I think it's still in the shed, all you can see is the backhoe arm sticking up.

Dave41A · Feb 12, 2021

No picture, but I showed this thread to my wife...who didn't think it was funny. "You're just trying to make me think your messes are OK!!!"

My screen-name namesake 1941 Farmall A is in similar status. The wheels have been used as a firewood rack, bags of coal stacked under it. I started working on the sheet metal but got side-tracked on other things. That was 22 years ago.

My workbench vise is visible but only because I use it a lot. Everything else is hidden under stuff.

KFFarm · Feb 12, 2021

My son would gladly take that C off your hands.

johndeerejim · Feb 12, 2021

Sharp tractors and Nova. Least they are inside out of the elements. MY B tends to be a catch all until I need it, then I get mad that I have to clean up around it to use it.

Kansas4010 · Feb 13, 2021

I expect I'd have to ask my niece. She's been taking a shine to it for some reason. She used to drive it some before it got parked. She's been asking me lately when I'm going to fix it. If I do, I'll just give it to her if she wants it.

chcase · Feb 13, 2021

Bruce,It won't be long and your grandson would look pretty happy on the va. Time flys

brooktre · Feb 13, 2021

Just a thought....
This is a great opportunity for owners of these old pieces of machinery to assess if they will have time to get to them or if it is time to pass them on to an enthusiastic new owner. I dont have an interest, but it looks like there may already be interested parties looking. Plus if you move them out now there is a better chance that the pieces and parts that belong to the machine will go with it.

Rich'sToys · Feb 13, 2021

(quoted from post at 12:08:01 02/13/21) Just a thought....
This is a great opportunity for owners of these old pieces of machinery to assess if they will have time to get to them or if it is time to pass them on to an enthusiastic new owner. I don't have an interest, but it looks like there may already be interested parties looking. Plus if you move them out now there is a better chance that the pieces and parts that belong to the machine will go with it.

I referenced a John Deere B in my earlier post that's been in pieces in my shop for years. If anyone is interested in a "build your own John Deere" project, it is available. Email me and I'll send details and pictures. judyandrich (at) frontiernet (dot) net

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