O/T How many HAMBers own Vintage Tractors

Our farm never got rid of our vintage tractors, kept some running, some sitting in sheds.

3 Farmall B's, 1 parts, 1 stuck, and 1 i'm restoring with high compression aluminum pistons. All bought new
1 Farmall Super MD, starts on gas runs on diesel, pulled it out of the barn after sitting for 20 years and it fired right up. Bought new.
1 Farmall T-340 Been in family since new, still use it to clean the barn out.
1 JD 80, only made 3250 of these, G'pa bought it bout 10 years back.
1 JD A, got a 3pt post hole digger on the back. Dad remembers Great G'pa talking about unloading it off the train when new
1 JD 60, been in the barn years, stuck.
1 IH 560 Diesel, with an IH wide front.
1 late 40's Lima dragline, still works.
1 1968 Cat D4, still gets used in the business.
Many other 60's and 70's tractors but there not worth mentioning here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LGurjHeRw

 

55 John Deere Model 40 smaller tractor, but not too small, PTO 3 PT .

 

That JD 80 gives me wood. The biggest 2 cyl in the known world. Uses a Toyota size motor just to turn it over, sort a! Want to sell it?

 

hahah tractor for a metronome/rhythm. cool stuff.

man i bet all the tractor restorers get annoyed with the rat rodders jacking there grills.

cool tractors.
chris.

 

1950 John Deere "A". Power-Trol and Rol-o-Matic.

 

I'm going to revive this topic with some info on my latest toy. Been looking for one of these for a long time. This one turned up locally.

1946 series 1 Field Marshall. It's a single cylinder diesel and it ran first try after 20 years under a tarp.








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We received my father in laws '53 Ford NAA with 270hrs on it for a wedding present 3yrs ago. I'm in the process of cleaning it up to use on our place. This was something that my wife wanted for years after her Dad died, and her mother finally let us have it and she thought we were nuts for wanting it instead of something new. Well, some people get it and some don't.

 

How did I miss this one the first time around?
All of mine are Farmall
1939 F-20
1944 M
1952 H
3 - C's, one with a 'pipe-frame' loader, 2 with 'Fast-Hitch' (Farmall's 2-point answer to the 3-point, did not catch on..)

All of them run and and are used 'hobby-farming'

 

Sold my Farmall H about a year ago. Had a 6' belly mower under it to finish cut my back field.

 

1959 Ford 841 with Elenco 4x4.....Doing a wheely

 

I have a 52 Ferguson TO 30 , I use it for deer food plots. Nice old tractor .

 

I'm going to need one in the future when I move, starting to do research now.

 

My 1952 Farmall Cub. Owned for 37 years, use it year round to mow lawn, haul firewood and plow snow.

 

Mine's a 1960 Oliver 550 gasoline, about 40 horse. It came with a loader which was about useless without power steering. Sold off the loader and use the tractor for brush hogging and snow removal.
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AC G gas with hydraulics (cultivating) - early 50's
AC D14 gas high clearance (cultivating) - late 50's
IH 504 diesel high clearance (spraying) - 70's
IH 84 Hydro diesel (transplanting, light work) - late 70's
Case IH 885 diiesel (hard work) - 1984, our newest tractor
IH Hydro 70 diesel (400 gallon saddle tanks, needs engine/trans rebuilt, for sale) - 70's
MF 65 diesel w loader (good tractor, for sale) - 60's
Sky Trak 842 telescopic forklift (awesome for moving heavy car parts/bodies!)

This isn't a collection, they're just tools we use on our 65 acres of cut flowers.

 

Does "used to own one" count....??
I had a '49 JD MT row crop.........bought it cause I like it.....had no real use for it but it sure was fun to putt around on.
I drove it 20 miles home when I bought it. Wow, sure get a great view of things at 20-25mph.
The fellow I bought it from got worried knowing I had never owned nor drove one in my life. He came out checking on me about 10 miles into my run home. Ran out of gas about 1 1/2 miles from the door. Cell phone took care of that but had several people stop and ask if I was Ok!

 

We chose this 52 John Deere B for our shop tractor because it turns inside the building, will never have a bad water pump (does not have one) and the clutch can be replaced without splitting the tractor into two pieces. This thing gets used every week.

 

My father bought a new 39' Farmall A Cultivision..I think next size up from the Cub of Krol, post 103..Came with magneto ignition but had it converted to electric start a few years later...I still have the mag around here someplace..Full time farming up to 48', part time till 63', teenager me mostly home garden [some sales] and snow removal till about 70'..Since working full time got tired of garden and just used for snow removal, by 71' got a snow blower and mom sold the tractor...Later years the battery was junk so used to jump it with a big 6v lantern battery and use the old crank from the mag days..Sigh...

 

Sweet stuff.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

We bought this Famall last winter it aint fancy, some one got the grill, markings and lights but for $1,300 dollars delivered it does the job of scraping our long mountian drive way.After i get the 56 buick wagon done i will start on this one.Bruce.

 

When we 1 st got the tractor i didnt know you needed weights for it. Check out my weights on the back.I welded a bar across and just piled on the big rocks for weight and strapped them down .Hey it works lol.Bruce.

 

I have a 52 8-N with a Sherman 3 speed auxiliary, takes care of 4 acres and has lifted several flatheads in and out for me! Also have two torn down for parts if any one needs some.

 

I have a 49 Oliver row cropper

 

I have a '54 wd45 with a prototype engine. At the gathering of the orange I was told this
engine was one of 17 headaches.

 

I have a '52 Ferguson TO 2085 that my grandfather bought new. Also have a '53 Massey Harris 33.

 

I have a '53 Ferguson TO30, I use for the brush hog.
Love the old tractors.

 

I had a IH 300 industrial that was a beast. Had a davis bucket & rear blade. I used that one to build a house & do grading & building driveways for others.
I now own this piece of history. I is a beast but in a different way. Has tiller steering a & hand operated blade. Try steering,grading & working the hand throttle all at the same time plus using the foot operated clutch. It is a 1947or48 Gibson

 

I used a Ford Dexta for many years = basically a diesel engine 8N with a clutched PTO. Great little tractor. Advancing years dictated power steering so it left home to be replaced by a Kobota - the Lexus of tractors.
If you are new to tractors you should be aware of the dangers of non live pto when mowing or bush hogging if you buy a earlier tractor.

 

If 2 wheels work .I have a David Bradley my Dad bought new in 1962.