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Does your Mommie know you're playing on the computer? Why aren't you in school.......home with the sniffles?
 
Green is the only REAL machine. The rest are just wannabees.

There is only 1 place for those red things. It is called the scrap box. The only thing red is good for is when you are fixing the same thing for the 100th time and you cut your arm open the blood won't mess up the paint color.

I don't think I am too impartial.
 
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By green,I hope you mean Oliver since Hart Parr built the first machine to be called a "TRACTOR".
 
This is like being given an empty canvas & told to go paint a picture. I grew up some around a Farmall Cub, so that's the favorite. They're all good: when I'm reading Roger Welsch, I think owning an Allis like "Woodpecker" would be nice.
Also, I enjoy mowing here with the John Deere LT133, even though it's not zero-turn. All good. Mark.
 
Sorry, in my part of the world olivers are just about as common as finding a $1000 bill on the ground. I was referring to the 2 bangers.
 
Just remember- As granddad said If you only have 2 cyl you only have 1/2 a tractor. Mine is anything with a 6 cyl motor in her.
 
Grew up IH, but have always been partial to Fords. A Ford tractor was the first one I ever ran by myself. It was a neighbor's 871.
Had a neighbor who had a johnny popper. I'd cringe when I'd hear that thing running. The sound of one STILL makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
 
Must be your Deere dealer doesn't have the attitude that ours does. "We're John Deere,we don't have to." It caused me to go down the road to the Agco dealer several years ago.
 
I doubt that, I used to run an Oliver 44 took two men and a boy just to steer it. lots of power but you had to start steering 100 ft before the end of the field and when ready stomp the break, then you had to recover control worked the heck out of you.

JD's I have ran "A", "B",Cyclone G, ran and steered fine.

In the newer versions after the 50's around here red,orange,grey seemed to be the choice tractors for working.

As far as small farming and collecting JD's are tops almost everywhere.

As far as me I would say a Ford 8n but today would be considered a garden tractor, But that is the first I plowed with and nostalgic towards them ,that is what my uncle used to make a living on his 140 acre farm.
 
That"s too bad. Around here the two local dealers. North Ridge and Elmira tractor are super keen to assist and friendly.Sales, parts department and shop guys.
I have even seen them with unreasonable customers that deserved a kick in the pants out the door too.
Those few customers with the sore seat tend to be very vocal however. And whine more/louder than the all happy customers combined.
Some people are still bitter that Pappy"s and Grand Pappy"s tractor company went bust. And is now an almost forgotten chapter in some corporate merger.
 
Personaly I'm partial to any 1954-1965 Allis Chalmers Tractor,but my dad was the one who really had a hard time decideing what tractor to keep and use. His first one was a AC "B" with a small Disc and Plow,the 2 Clydedales and 2 big Belgians that I remember always were on stand by when he was running the little B. Then he and some others got ahold of some Mogen David Grape Wine they found laying in the middle of the road and next day a big Orange AC Model UC was delivered to our farm. I remember they did not have a Delivery Truck but drove it from Town to the Farm. Dad was out dragging down fresh disced Corn Ground when it came.The delivery guy had to wait awhile for him to get to the end of the Field as he had a 4 Horses hitch hooked to a 4 section Drag and he walked behind the Drag guiding the Horses. He finished dragging the Ground with the Horses before even giving the UC a look.Mean while us Kids really gave that UC a look over,even tried to turn the engine with the Crank. He did Plant with the AC B and 2 row JD 290 Planter but the UC never got a chance to show off until Oats were harvested when it got to do the Belt work on the Case Thresher. At different times in his life he owned a Ford 8N w/Loader,A Case DC, A Oliver 88 w/#4 mounted Corn Picker,a AC WD45,A AC D21,but the old UC and the little B were never gone from the farm while he lived.The old Horses were retired and died one by one and I think he cried when ever one of them passed away. My sale bill in 1971 listed two WD45 AC's, one D15 and one D17 and one 190 all AC, I guess I was an AC admirer.JC
 
We had a Deere dealer right here locally that was great. I got rid of all the old Olivers and other off brand stuff and went pretty much all Deere. They closed in 1991 and we had to go to another one. Right off the bat they treated me like a red headed b*stard step child. All but asked me to step back so they could serve "their" customers. The last straw came the day that the parts manager told me to keep doing what I'd been doing because he didn't want to order a part for me. One of the other parts guys asked him if he'd called somebody back yet. He said "no,I've gotta get HIM out of here first." I started getting rid of everything green and yellow that I had right then and there.
 
1st off all red hair isn't so bad. My beard is red due to having two grandfather's with red hair.Two cousins with red hair.
Wife has an uncle and two cousins with red hair.
My youngest is a strawberry blond.

It seems odd that the dealership would drive customers away who provide their paycheques. I'd like to hear their side of the story.
 
They're just a big 3 location dealership with their high rolling customers buying tens of thousands of dollars worth of new equipment every year,spending a fortune in the service department,while I was farming with a 4040,3010 and a 1020,doing most of my own wrenching and they didn't have time for my few hundred dollars a year. I'm sure if I'd have been buying new equipment every year (like I did for a while at the old dealer),I'd have been their best friend. That and the parts manager was just a pr!ck. At least the Agco dealer acts like they want my business. I'd go all Deere again if a new dealer would open up locally. With local employees who knew local customers. I'm not a hard guy to get along with,but I'm not gonna get bent over either when another brand dealer treats me right.
 
I grew up on a 1958 861 Powermaster, it is the right size for mowing, also needs less maintainance than some of the newer tractors. It has live PTO and hydraulics, with a 2 spool valve. Also partial to the Ford 5000 row crop, but after 35 years it does have some steering issues. Also only has single spool valve, never will know why "Uncle" Dave had 2 spool on the smaller tractor and only one on the 5000. Both burn lots less fuel than similar size other brands, from experience. 100 HP+ would possibly be IH 1066 as long as you pretend the TA isn't there, and turn pump DOWN to around 115 HP to help fuel burn. Old tractor favorite is my Grandpas 1936 F20 with road gear. Just got her here to Illinois this spring, cost about 300 for everything it needed to bring her back to life. DOUG
 
grew up around fords. got two of them now, an 8N and a 640. just got a MF1085 but thats cause it belonged to my stepdad and when he passed my stepsister got it. she put it for sale and for a fact it is a good tractor so had to buy it from her.
l cook
 
Yes - My tractors are all GREEN. Grew up on Olivers the in the 60's and 70's ran Olivers and John Deere (HP70,77,880, 1850 and then JD 3020 4020, 4320 and finally 4430) as well as some Case, before I got an "education". Have slaved for the past 32 years and now have an
Oliver 80 NF
Oliver 77 NF
Oliver 77 STD
Oliver 88 WF
Oliver 55
Oliver S88 D
Oh - Yea - The little John Deere 4200 compact that does all the work.
I'd still like a Farmall SMTA to match the year I was born, but those tractors aren't cheap!
kruser
 
You know, My cheapest tractors are probably the toy tractors I collect - Very little maintenace and I've never had one run bad! - Keep telling my daughter that's her inheritance! OH DAD!
 
'm not a high roller either just purchasing parts for my and Dad's old equipment and collection.
Just $1000-$3000 on parts, odds and ends etc a year usually. One and only new thing I've purchased was a little 22B V-ripper last month.
Walk in there every month or two or three and North Ridge and the sales manager and all three parts counter staff know me by name.
I suggest you write a letter to the somebody at Deere and tell them. You used to get great service and now rebuffed. Deere is image conscious and does care.
 
I guess I'm partial to Allis-Chalmers. I had an uncle that farmed and he always swore by AC as being the best gasoline tractor. As I remember he had 2 WD45's, a B, a D-17 series 4, a D-19 diesel, and a 730 JD diesel. I remember he always had to fill the D-19 with water when he wanted to use it and drain it when done. He always said that JD built a better diesel.
I pretty much like everything except any thing that has Massey or Ferguson on it. MF absolutely does not mean Mighty Fine to me.
 
I like most all of them. Kinda hooked on Case right now, but also own IH, MM and AC. I like Deere after the 2 cyl. They finally figured it out!
 
That's just it,I never got great service from that dealer. I did from the old dealer closer to home,that closed. This one has had the same parts manager the whole time that I've gone there. I'm not the only one that he treats that way. I've heard him on the phone while I've been in there. The guy's just an *ss and the store manager doesn't seem to care. I don't bleed green and want to be burried in Moline. I'm fine with the Agco dealer as long as they're in business.
 
I have two different Deere dealers near me. One is run by a larger outfit that has bought up about 5 independent Deere dealerships. The other is just a privately owned dealership. The difference is night and day. The privately owned one has friendly people who have worked there forever and the other is staffed by minimum wage kids who never stay long and are never happy about their job.

On the other hand, if it's just parts you're after, I recommend using the jdparts.deere.com website to select what you need and then just pop in to pick up your order.
 
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