Re: Collectability (sp?) of Farmalls

Posted by Farmall Newbie on December 15, 1999 at 11:44:02 from (207.89.136.189):

In Reply to: Collectability (sp?) of Farmalls posted by Bama Binder on December 14, 1999 at 12:18:28:

How I came to own a 51' Farmall M was really quite a story - but to shorten it up here is the long and the short of it.

I own 15 acres and one day I was trying to push buck brush away from the swamps edge, and my wife came down to where I was stuggling with my 445 JD with a 54" blade and said, "Honey do you want me to call dad and have him bring down Matilda"? Looking at her smiling I asked her what the hell a "Matilda", was. She just chuckled and walked away.

The next day I was back at the swamp again when I heard this rumbling coming from behind me..turning around I seen my father in law grining from ear to ear...sitting on this piece of machinery that dwarfed me. He said, "Boy what are you trying to do there", and I explained to him what it was that I was trying to do.

Next thing I knew I was seeing 20' tall swamp trees falling over like twigs..he had a 8' homemade blade on the front end and watching him raise and lower that blade and seeing what he could accomplish made me want the tractor.

That was almost 2 years ago..one day we went out to visit him, and he asked me if I wanted to buy "Matilda" for 1500.00 bucks. Its seems that my mother in law..said that he had bought one tractor to many and one of em had to go.

I purchased this tractor with the intention of just using it to plow the drive way and brush hog...and some light brush clearing and never intended to get into restoring it. One day the front wheels got jacked around and in the process of trying to straighten them out I snapped the steering column. Im not very mechanicaly incline..growing up on the streets of Chicago I knew how to "tear" things apart but putting something back together was another thing. So sitting there in my pole barn looking at "Matilda"..I vowed to myself that I would make her "new" again.

And that is how I came to be a "Farmall" owner.
Hence the name - Farmall Newbie

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