Non farmer tractor lovers

How many of you out there that frequent this site and have an interest and love for old tractors are not or were not farmers? I am a retired undreground miner that got the bug about 10 yrs ago. Wish it had happened sooner.

me!what kind of mining did ya do?had the bug about 25years now but not looking to get rid of the bug LOL

I have never lived on a farm. My Grandparents did, but my Dad became a preacher-mostly in rural churches-and that is as close as I got to a farm. Greg

I am still on the farm I grew up on. It's a little smaller than it used to be but I'm still hanging in there.

I grew up in the city, but spent as much time as I could in the country. Lived on the farm for 5 years before joining the military. Still love the old iron and want to get into it. I'll be out of the military soon. Hope to have the time, money, and place to get into the old tractors and pickups. Not looking to get rich, just looking to pay the bills.

Myself also, grew up round small sawmill have had the tractor,truck any old machine bug for 30 years oh so, dad used to be a underground miner got scare out went into sawmilling passed away in 79, I own my own water well drilling rig,also repair oil wells.

Thats me, I am an insurance guy but monkey around with my tractors (Ford 2N and Ford 4600SU)on my time off. I have a 12 acre parcel so there is always something that needs mowed or bush hogged.

My Dad gave up farming and moved to town in 1951,eight years later (when his Mother passed away) he got a little to make the down payment to buy 80 acres. I was a freshman in high school at that time. He kept his job in town and we "Hobby farmed" the 80. After HS I enlisted and did my time, came back to go to work in town. I loved those old tractors then and I still do. I have 10 of them, and live in town.

When I got old enough to gather eggs from the chicken coop, helped Dad raise meat rabbits too. and do chores we didn't own a farm but when I reached 13 yrs I was working for my uncle , and he and three other farm owners in the area helped each other to make sure the 100- 350 acre parcels were all [plowed planted harvested}

I worked at all of then till they "wanted to see me in uniform" Least that's what the letter said .

During that time I was in the FFA and raised a steer for a project. Learned how to set up and contour fields . we even made a field trip to teachers farm to get hands on docking sheep, and
Neutering his calves, and pigs. ( Razor blade, and banding.)

We also had his ford tractor for a shop project painting it.
Lots of fond memories using old iron. From a ford 8N biggest was a Farmall MD others were,
JD A,Ford Ferguson,Allis WD 45 an an "H"
My brother had an old FD 12 we cleaned off his 5 acres with . I ran it also. today's technology and standards I don't consider my self to be a farmer.

Yester years farming was plant a seed that God provided and you plant it, if you were good enough to nurture it, God would give you produce. Today the gov. tells you how to plant and scholars tell you how to take care of it.

I'd much rather have food growed in cow Poop than some of the chemicals used now.

My grandparents and parents all lived on farms. I'm the first generation not too, but I still have grandpa's old AC WD. Love the thing to pieces, and have had it since I was... 8 or so.

My parents moved off the family farms, but seemed like my father would have gone back to farming if a reasonable opportunity ever presented itself. We have 15 acres and since I found this site I have probably saved multiple thousands getting advice on repairs on all types of things that I have done myself now. Tractors are a 41 Ford 9N and a 78 Ford 3600. Pretty much only use the N for pulling things around, but comes in handy sometimes to save from unhooking/hooking everything up to the 3600.

Kirk

I have never lived on a farm but I see a great deal of common sense and dignity in farming. Good honest work where you sometimes get back more than you put in..........but other times not. I could ramble on about the wisdom and patience it must teach you but I won't.
My father spent his younger days on a farm in his native Estonia. We always planted huge gardens at home when I was growing up and some of my fondest memories were of my Dad fixing on or operating his old 9N. At least I think it was a 9N, might have been an 8N but I know it was an N. There was always machinery around and I always loved to get my hands dirty. Tractors are such versatile machines. Their usefulness seems endless and to me that is fascinating. I love old equipment because of how it is built. I love to take things apart and find out how they work, then make 'em work like they did when they were new.
My wife and I have horses now but I hardly consider that farming. Perhaps someday we'll get into making our own hay, that seems to me like it would be something I would enjoy but that's a few years down the road. We live in a rural area and directly across the road one neighbor has cattle. It's more rural residential but there are many old farms around here that are still used for hay.