After transferring from horses My Grandpa farmed with only 1 tractor for the majority of his working years
Farmall F-12 or 14 (I forget which), then a Farmall F-20, then a late 1940's JD A, mid 1950's JD 520.
The JD 520 was kept when a 1960 Minnie Moline M5 was added and those 2 tractors were sold at the moving off the farm retirement sale when I was in kindergarden in the early 1970's.
My guess is the only thing that afforded him the luxury of 2 tractors was his 5 kids were reaching the age where they were all moving out in the mid-1950's and early 1960's so there would have been a little extra money available for him due to that plus he was losing his extra farm help in his kids at the same time too.
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