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Brian Burton

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Locomotives had the nickname of "iron horse", did the traction engine and later the tractor have a nickname besides that of "tractor"?
Thank you
 
I never used nicknames for tractors, I would shorten them, I called Dad's John Deere 60 the '60' and my letter series Farmall tractors, I call them by their individual letter designation.
 
My Dad always refered to his Farmall M as an engine. I would hear him say it looks like rain, I'd better put the engine in the shed..always refered to as the "engine"..I think it was because he was brought up with horses and anything mechanical powered was refered to as an engine.
 
When I was growing up we had an H and Super A, Big tractor and little tractor. Run get the 15/16 wrench it"s on the big tractor.
 
when theyre runnin rite or when they actin up??? i've heard some rite colorfull names for tractor when they break down before jobs finished.
 
I have a friend who calls his tractor 6 pack. He traded a 6 pack of beer for the tractor. He could have bought a lot of beer for what it cost to get it operational, but was still a good deal.Stan
 
"H", "M", "New M" 706, 766, etc.

I think my old neighbor had a nickname for his Fordson, but this being a family type forum I can't print it here.

Gene
 
Dad got started calling his Farmall Super M, "Baby". He hadn't named his 886 yet. When he recently purchased his 1486, we were standing there looking at them and I suggested that the others needed a name. So now he has "Bertha" (1486), "Junior" (886) and "Baby" ( Super M).
 
My Ford 800 is called Daisy Duke because she is so pretty and has a sweet body. When I go to work on her I wink to my wife and tell her that I'm going out to ride 'Daisy'
 
My B Farmall is named "Hosea's Wife", who was named Gomer, the wife of the minor prophet, Hosea in the Old Testament Scriptures. Gomer was a bad wife and left Hosea and became a prostitute. When she was discarded in her trade she was purchased back by Hosea in a slave auction. He loved her and she was then a good wife. I could not call the tractor Gomer because many people do not know her name as Gomer and may associate the name to Gomer Pyle.

I bought this tractor in 1954 when I was 17 years old and treated it poorly and traded it off when I thought it was junk. It went through several owners and in 1976 I bought it back in an auction for $210 nad I have spent a lot of money on it and made it into a good tractor. Now I am good to her and she serves me well.
 
I dont know of any general nick name like the Tin Lizzy for the Ford 'T'. But one that sticks in my mind was the biggest tractor I had seen in person around 1970 was a JD 6020 with PUFF painted in yellow on the front. I dont know if it refered to the magic dragon in the dope smoking song or if the guy was high when he bought it. Ha Ha On second thought maybe the black smoke from the stack when it was running.
 
Meet "Jaws"
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My very first tractor was a Ford Super Dexta, named her "Thumper" after the rabbit in "Bambi" second tractor is a 5200 Ford named "Miss Trish" after our first child Patricia,born just after buying the tractor. Both tractors have their names painted on them. Rest of them are just reffered to by their model numbers.
 
My greatgrandmother called any mode of transportation without a horse a "MACHINE", as are we going to town in your machine. I haven't thought of that in years, thanks.
 
I call my 2N "The ThunderLizard". Low to the ground, makes rumbling sound with dual pipes, and can move very quickly if so desired.

Mr. Bob
 
The SM we still call the super. The smaller tractors we called by their model. Then the 66 series we called the 2wheel 10, 4 wheel 10(had front wheel assist), the 15, then there was the 2+2 and the tangerine (AC 7580).

Chris has Ollie the Oliver 77.
 
The Massey, The Kubota, The Farmall, The Truck, The Cows, The Cats. I like to keep it simple so anyone would understand. Although I did put numbers on the gravety wagons according to farm sinority.
 
Was it a bad tractor? LOL I too appreciate you bringing up that story. I'm a minister and love that story about selfless and undieing love. It was an earthly picture of God's love to buy us back. Think I'll preach that in a few weeks.
Thanks
 
Thank you. I did find this in my research. This was what I was really asking for but all of the stories are interesting with all of the nicknames.
 
As far as the original question,they were all called something else until Hart Parr first called theirs a "tractor". That's where the name came from. You'd have to go back farther than that. Traction engine I think would have the most common term.
 
I call my Belarus, Vladamir. At least that"s what I call it around women and children. Most of the time what I call it is not printable. The rest of my tractors I just call by their brand name and size.
 
We've got The Big Allis, The Little Allis (aka the D17) and The Blue Tractor. There are a couple of others, but those have been down on their hocks waiting for me to work on them.

Christopher
 
I call her Big Boy, I know that doesn't make any sense.
Walt
Dang I need to take another picture since I have cleaned and straightened and added some paint to her.

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"Ollie", our 1800, "Olive", the 1650, "C" the Farmall C, "Diesel", the 871 ford diesel. We also have a 88 Oliver yet to be named.
 
Only one we ever named was an Oliver 1550 I bought in 1976- It was by far the largest tractor I'd had to that point (joined an 8N and JD 420)- so we called it Bodacious.
 
We called the Farmall M, Mort and the 504 was called Dorathy which was the name of the guys wife that the tractor was bought from.

Never had a name for the 686.
 
I appreciate the stories, but I'm looking for more of a general name for traction engines later called "tractors" by Hart-Parr. The locomotives were called "iron-horses". Is there another name for the early tractors than just "tractor" or road locomotive?
Thank you
 
Don't know if this is any help or not,but I got out the Encyclopedia of American Farm Tractors and flipped through the first few pages to see if I could find any other names for them. Advance Rumly had the Oil Pull of course,but they had one called a Gas Pull as well. The Adams Husker Company of Marysville Ohio had something called a "Little Traction Gear". It was a unit that came without an engine. You added your own. American-Abel Engine & Thresher Company had what looked like a tractor but they called it a Universal Farm Motor. There was the Gramont traction Plow,but that was kind of a self propelled plow. Same thing with the Hackney Auto Plow. Interesting that there was a Hackney Corn-Planter too. It wasn't actually a corn planter,but a row crop tractor that wasn't called a "tractor". Was that the kind of thing you were looking for? None of those companies really called them a "tractor" at that time. Guess Hart Parr hadn't coined the phrase yet. Acording to that book,Hart Parr first used the term Tractor in their advertising in 1907. Didn't go very far into the book to see if there were any other different names.
 
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