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Bored for good tractor conversation. Dave2 just showed off his ugly azz naked self just as I was sitting down at the computer with my lunch. Ruined my appetite. Gramps gor rid of horses as soon as he could afford a tractor and never looked back. Anyone have a good tractor story to tell? Maybe get the tractor talk back to tractors? Gramps first tractor was a Huber. No idea what model but pretty sure it was standard tread. Maybe we should all tell what the first tractor was on the family farm. For some I would guess steam engines in the 1800s. For others the frst tractor didn't come until the 1940s or 50s.
 
1937 Oliver Hart Parr 70 replaced the horses here.

On the subject of old tractors,I see there's a new antique tractor show on RFD today at 5:30pm eastern. Reruns tomorrow at noon east. Don't know anything about it,but I just saw it advertized. Showing some steam on there today from the look of it.
 
My dad bought our first used tractor, Farmall Super C, in the early 60's.

I'm still in shock-and-awe where [b:654c4848f0]Dave 2[/b:654c4848f0] got that photo of my stepmother!
 
Grandpas first tractor was a new 1935 A John Deere. Traded in 1940 for a new B John Deere. Still have the B, just this winter pushed it in the shop. Starting a top to bottom, front to back restoration. Tractor hasn"t run in about 35 years. A big task ahead.
 
Grandpa's first & only tractor was a 1937 John Deere BN. He traded in my my aunt's horse as partial payment on the tractor. She was still irritated until the day she died! That was in the late 1990's; I told her the horse would have been glue years ago & the tractor still lives!!!
I have gone through the tractor from stem to stern,new rings & paint. The plow is one like I used when I came home from high school in the fall. 1-16" bottom didn't cover much ground but eventually got the job done.
Grandpas tractor
 
Dad's first tractor was a used Farmall F-30 on steel, second one, a new Massey Harris 30 amd then a new AC- WD which is still in the family
 
My grandfather bought a Fordson sometime in the mid twenties if I remember right. Dad said he didn"t like it much. He bought a John Deere D shortly after they came out. He kept his horses, still did a lot with then right to the end. My dad"s favorite was a Ferguson 35 he bought new. He had several Ferguson implements to go with it. Wish I had that collection today ! I started a bit late in life, my first tractor was a tie - bought an IH 1086 and a JD 8640 the same day. That 1086 is the favorite and hardest worked machine we have. Ken
 
Our first tractor was a new 1944 BR Deere,the year I was born. Would like to own it again, know who has it.
 
As early as I can remember, my dad had a IH15-30 and a JD 37 long frame B. He still had a team of horses for planting and pulling the hayrack.
He used to leave the planter in the field overnight and ride one of the horses back and forth morning and night.
 
Walt Bueshcer was blockman for Allis Chalmers for a long time. He said back in the day when everybody was making the switch from horses,a lot of dealers would put down a persons horses,tell them how much better a tractor was without concidering the emotional attachment to those horses. He was telling about a dealer who would always ask to see a farmers horses,then would compliment the heck out of them. He'd say what a shame it was to take such nice animals right out of the barn in the spring and put them on the toughest job on the farm,plowing. He's say that they should have a tractor for that and save the horses for manure hauling,cultivating,haying,etc. Said that got his foot in the door to sell a tractor. Once they got one and realized how nice it was,they would start to buy tractor drawn implements and phase out the horses instead of having them taken all at once.
 
First tractor on Grandma's side was a IHC Titan 10-20. Shon Jacobsen bought it and restored it (way more project than I wanted). First tractor on Grandpa's side was a McCormick W30 on rubber.
 
Dad bought a nearly new 8N Ford, in 1952. Got plow, disc, and mower, I think. Other than an old Fordson I remember crawling around on (that I never saw run), that N was the only tractor he ever had.

When I bought my first farm in 1973, I hired a guy to cut the hay. Seemed like a nice guy, but pretty disgusted with haying at that point- had gotten stiffed for some jobs, weather problems, etc. He said I needed something like his tractor and mower (another 8N and MF DynaBalance mower), priced it to me at $900, so I borrowed from the bank on my signature and bought it. I wonder now if there was a lien on the tractor- if so, I never heard about it. That started a "love affair" with tractors that continues- I guess I've owned 30 or so, over the last 35 years. Did a little buying and selling, but that's a tough way to make a buck.

Sure liked that DynaBalance mower, at least for a sickle type. Got a Taarup disc mower a couple years later, and there's no comparison, of course, especially in lodged, heavy grass- but it took considerable more ponies than the N had.
 
I was small growin' up, and got to be eight or nine and impatient to be big enough to reach the clutch so I could start drivin' the tractors.

Oh, I'd watched every move Grandpa made, startin' up the H. Had the drill down just pat, I thought. I'd sit on that tractor in the shed and practice for hours, pretendin' to start it up, slip it into reverse to back it out . . . For all that I didn't really understand just what it was the clutch actually did.

One day, I got a little ahead of myself. I knew enough to make sure the ignition button was in so that it wouldn't actually start, and then pushed the starter button. It was in gear. Of course it lurched forward and bumped the nose end right up against the old safe where Grandpa kept his dynamite.

Well, I didn't have an idea in this world about that clutch or anything else at that point and didn't dare to put it in reverse.

There was no hidin' it, and it's probably the first time in my life I decided on my own that I had to man up. Knowin' no more than I did about things, I got it in my head that the electricity from the starter might be enough to set the dynamite off, and I sure didn't want Grandpa blowin' himself to flinders, so I told him what I'd done, and why I didn't try to back it away.

He just roared laughin', and the next day he sat on the left axle housing and taught me how to drive the very same BN that sits in my garage today.
 
My maternal grandfather had a Firdson bought in the early 20's. Next he got a 1937 Allis WD. Finally he added a tractor made from a 1917 Dodge car. He kept a team of horses the whole time as well.

My Paternal Grandfather made a tractor from a Nash Car. Later bought an Allis B.

The only one I ever drove was a the B. The rest were all gone before I came along.

Jerry
 
My Dad's first tractor was a brand new 1951 Ford 8N

My wife's Dad's first tractor was like the one in
picture, a 1020 I think. She has a picture of
herself on it taken when she was about 5.
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My grand father bought his first tractor, a C Case, in the spring of 1930; he gave it to me in 1973 and I run it several times a year. In 1956 he bought a 1929 L on a farm auction which was traded in on a 1951 LA. In 1971, I was able to get the L back from a cousin and I still have it.
My dad bought a DC in 1949 and I have it too. The only one O don't have is the LA and I know where it sits. The problem is that the person who bought it on dad's dale died before I was able to buy it back.
 
I think my dad's first tractor was a f20, he did custom corn picking with it. One of those with the corn tank over your head, one row at a time. You know the felt boot's sheep skin coat and cold. He still had a teem , I know that he bought 15 30 one time, he alway's said he took it home and it never burned a tank of gas. He said it was to big and unhandy to do row crop's.We had many red tractor's since.
 
My grandad bought a new JD B in 1936 my dad said they farmed 500 acers with it and the horses for two years there were 8 boys in the family so they ran it around the clock sum off the time they put a gen and light onit gramps traded in the fall of 1938 for a new model A and a 25 corn picker
 
First tractor James worked was a small McCormick of some kind. He'll have to tell you which one.

My first tractor belonged to my Dad. We still have it and use it. Its a 1948 JD A.
 
Grampa's first and last tractor. Grampa wasn't a mechanic and the boys were in the service as it during WW-II
Walt
PS Look hard there is a tractor under there.

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When I was big enough to remember things dad had a CC Case, new Case 3-14 plow, new Case pull type disk and a team of horses. Heard him talk about the F-12 he parked in the fence row with the cultivater on, because it would not pull the hat off your head. Horses become glue in the late forties. The Case was replace with a new AC-WD in 1951
 
1st---10-20 McCormick. 2nd---JD B. 3rd---Case D. 4th---JD A. 5th---Case 700. 6th---JD B. 7th.---JD 60. 8th---JD 50. 9th---JD 4230. 10th---JD 4240. Then he died. For me it was 1st---Farmall H. 2nd---Farmall 560. 3rd.---IH 706. 4th---JD 2440. 5th---CaseIH cx100. 6th---JD 4230. 7th---McCormick mc120.
 
My Great Grandpas first tractor was a Titan 10 20, My Grandpas was a 9n Ford, he always wanted a tractor and saved for years to get that one. Grandpa never had much, and he never owned a pickup. Dads was a 444 IH, mine was a 4020, all were bought used, but they were very much appreciated.
 
Found some pics of my dad with an unstyled JD L. He said it would'nt pull a 12" plow in our black Ohio clay, so he traded for a 1938 Allis B. That B and plow was traded for a 1948 Allis B, mower, & plow with starter, lights, & hydraulic lift. $675 cash to boot. I still have the 1948 B, learned to drive on it hauling water and feed to our 2000 chickens. Dad always cautioned me, if anything is wrong you hit that clutch and brakes. We had the third dumbest dog in Richland County Ohio. I drove over her tail with the front wheel of the old Allis, quick reactions, stopped still on her tail. Dad got a little excited, told me to get the #### off her tail. Guess I wasn't thinkin' too good either, I asked if I should go ahead or back up. Not a good question to ask. I backed up off her tail, but she was never right after that.
Paul
 

Here's the story its before my time,,, grandpa sold the horse and brought a Fordson,,, their was only one local drunk (bill) that could keep it run'n so grandpa let him stay in the house and feed him,,, when he sold the tractor bill went with the tractor. My uncles tell me that Fordson was the most cranky machine they had ever seen,,, bill was needed to start it, Bill was needed to keep it running
 
There was only one old guy in the neighborhood who could make balers work right- and he was a drunk, as well. When he came to work on your baler, he got out of his truck with toolbox in one hand and jug in the other. Set both on the baler, and go to work- take a pull out of the jug from time to time. Didn't matter the time of day. Nobody ever said anything, because the rumor was if you commented, he'd just load everything up and leave, without a word. Man of few words- he'd ask "What's it doin'?" when he started, then would give instructions when needed, no conversation.

Must have had a liver of steel- lived well into his 70's, and had been doing that for 40 years.
 
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