The reason that I know it is my Grand Dad's is by serial number. I knew where it was after the local dealer sold it. Then it sold privately to another equipment dealer. The salesman there remembered the Town in Wisconsin it sold too. I then placed a classified add in a local paper looking for it. I ran the ad on and off for close to two years before I got an answer. Now this took lots longer than it sounds. I could not find the dealership it was sold to for over ten years. Then I had to track down the salesman as he had retired to Florida. I had a lot of luck in being able to find it.
If it was a more generic tractor like a IH model "H" or a Ford N series then it would be just about impossible. I have looked for the 1953 Ferguson 30 that my maternal Grand father owned, his only tractor he ever had. I have had zero luck finding it.
On the JD 4010 I have the original purchase order. I also have a detailed maintenance record. Starting in 1939 My Grand Father kept a record of every piece of equipment he owned. That record shows: when it was bought, The model, make, and serial number, Then the date and description of any repairs or update done. I have continued that after he passed on. I have a record of every piece of equipment I have ever owned or sold.
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Today's Featured Article - Restoration Story: 1929 McCormick-Deering 10-20 - by Randal Simmon. On July 4th 1998 my dad and I was sitting on the front porch when he said that he was going to sell his two 10-20's to a junk man. He said that the junk man was going to give him $500 for both of them but he hadn't received the money for them yet. So I went into the house and wrote him a check for $500 and bought them myself and said now they are mine. He had bought them about five years before thinking that he was going to restore them himself. After five years sitting in the barn, he changed h
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