Posted by Eric Rylander on August 01, 2012 at 18:44:34 from (68.51.177.185):
In Reply to: Your first tractor posted by Kow Farmer on August 01, 2012 at 16:33:36:
In spring of "81 or so at 12 I bought a 1941 John Deere B, hand start, with a Stanhoist loader and a Char Lynn hydro pump bracketed to the hitch run off the PTO. Thing had such worn out rings and mag you had to pull it forever to get it to start.
With rings and a valve job done with no torque wrench and borrowed tools it ran amazingly. SOld the loader for $150, friend in the area still has the hydro pump in his garage.
The tractor had a paint job slapped over the bent sheet metal and incorrect decals (unstyled B decals) by me. I did pay a guy twenty bucks to spray the paint.
I sold it in June of "83 to a guy for $475, Nobody wanted an early, styled B then. They either wanted unstyled stuff or later stuff with Power Trol and Roll-a-matic.
Years later (2004?) my bud near home (Grey Eagle, MN) tracked it down. Seems I wrote the name and phone number of the guy I sold it to as well as the serial on the snapshot I had.
The thing changed owners a couple times, and was last in possession of a Steve Peterson on Little Falls, MN who I called several times, left messages, never got a call returned, and sent a letter with pics of me on the tractor many years earlier with my current phone number and a request to buy the tractor if he wanted to sell it.
I guess I must be a nutjob as he never responded to any of it.
The serial is 117956. If any of you know where it is, let me know.
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