Re: first tractor

Posted by JD Seller on October 25, 2015 at 07:27:57 from (208.126.198.123):

In Reply to: first tractor posted by stonerock on October 25, 2015 at 06:27:43:

I was in the seventh grade (12yr) and I bought a JD "G" that was locked up for $450. It had been overhauled and only ran a few hours after the owner got it back. Locked engine. HE was tired of it. They had installed one of the oil lines wrong and it got broken off the first time the crankshaft turned. My Great Grand Father and I took it apart. The crank shaft was just lightly scored. We polished it with fine emery paper an put in new bearing and it was running. Your should have seen me driving that Beast without any power steering. LOL

What I remember most was how the old timers talked about how "BIG" that tractor was. It was low powered, noisy, hard operating beast!!!!

My Uncle had a nice Ford 661 with power steering that was twice the tractor and easier to operate. So when I went into farming myself I looked at a Ford. Money was tight and we had started our family. So I looked and found a "cheaper" Ford. That was a 1966 Ford 6000 Commander.

So I ran those two tractors for several years. The Ford was just a little over 10 years old and Ford had already quit making parts for it. That soured me on Ford as a company. My Grand Father had JD and some IH. The biggest being an IH 1466. I spent a lot of hours on that tractor. So I ordered a NEW IH 1086. It was delivered in April of 1980. I hated that tractor!!!! Hard to see out the back and road like a log wagon. Gear shifter was crap from day one. I sold that tractor in August of the same year. It had less than 200 hours on it. My wife refused to drive it as she could not stand the ride. I bought a JD 4440 that was one year old with the money from the sale of the IH. After that I only farmed mainly with JD.

I totally quit using the JD "G" in the early 1980s. It set for several years and did not get ran much at all. I sold it for $750 in 1983. Ten years later it would have brought 3-4 times that as the collector craze took off.

I sold the Ford 6000 in 1985. I had paid $2500 for it and got $2500 out of it. Kind of wish I had kept it. It was a nice handling tractor. It would be a nice "show" tractor.

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