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Sooner or later we’re gonna have someone here who was actually born on a tractor.

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Mornin, the first was our little Ferguson. As soon as you could slide off the seat and land on the clutch and brake you were in the field. Before that you helped stuke the grain, and handle (drag) bales around also unloaded onto the elevator into the barn. after which Mom would take us to the lake swimming. Later (much) later we got an international B 250 and then a B275. At thrashing bees and when helping others bring in hay everyone wanted to drive the little ferguson. Still remember the big meals that were put together by the hosting wife. Logged the timber out for my first house with that little ferguson, the big International was to heavy and just got stuck! Actually got to help a neighbour (4 miles) take out some logs once with his old white horse called June, what a sweet heart she was. He'd bought some logs from the hydro when they cleared area for new lines. When we would move to another area we had to move old June in a scow. Fist time was a little sketchy, after that she'd just walk in and off we'd go. Ohhh simpler times, wish I could go back!!! When men were men and women ate their young. LOL GWP. 🐾👣🐾👣🇨🇦

It's a wonder we all lived through it.

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I believe, so many years ago, it was a DC9 Case. We called it the Little Case because, we had bigger Cases. This is back when they were still painted orange.

As I got older, a McCormick-Deering (IH) became my favorite because I could pop wheelies with it. Big tractor in its day. It had the spread front wheels and was a lot of fun. My Dad sold it to a guy looking for a tractor pull donor tractor. Yes, I grew up outside Bowling Green, OH and the Tractor Pull Nationals could be heard for ten to twenty miles, if not more. Fun times.

McCormick-Deering

John Deere model 530. 2 cyl gas. Loved the loud PUTT PUTT when it was pulling a heavy hay wagon up a hill. Used to drive it to a trout stream as I didnt have a license yet. Would take the coil wire off so no one would steal it while I was fishing.
My sister says one of her Norman Rockwell memories was me driving the 530 out the driveway, holding a fishing rod, dog trotting behind me to go along.

Also drove a John Deere model H, built in 1943 (tractors were considered vital so were still built during the war.) Had to start it by spinning the flywheel with a magneto. Would try to park it facing downhill so I could just let it roll and pop the clutch. Used it to cultivate corn or tobacco.

How about this anybody remember getting the tractor stuck..and then tying a wooden fence post with a chain to the tire to get it out that was a big No-No after people got kilt by their own Lumber..lol....still did it again the next time we were stuck...

When I was growing up, we only had 1 tractor on our small cattle farm. Spent many a hour on that old '54 Ford Jubilee.

Wasn't too bad discing, pulling a harrow, blade work, raking hay, etc. But you learned how to drive a Jubilee, when you hooked up to a bushhog. Fixed a lot of fence, before I got the hang of it.

8n and a Ford 3000..

Dad was a tool and die maker, not a farmer, so all we had was an old International A with a hand lift and separate kerosene and gasoline tanks. It worked for making a garden and various odds and ends jobs.

When I got big enough to help the neighbors who made tobacco seed for Co-Op pollinate, I thought the old Super C they pulled the wagons with was a serious machine. At that time, we had at least a few neighbors who still used mules exclusively. LOL! I’m not even 50 years old yet.

When I was young, my parents had some land with fruit trees on it. My favorite tractor was an Oliver wheel tractor and a D-2 Cat.

When I worked for other farmers growing up, I didn't have a favorite tractor, I'd just jump on it and get to work.

Growing up working for farmers, I got to admire an array of tractors. Sadly, I was hired labor and had to actually work. I rarely had the opportunity to sit in the seats of them.

Started out on a Ferguson T20.....the original thumb buster! Then a MF 50 which I still have and then to a JD70. Finally, we got new 4010's and I thought it was heaven! It had power, power steering, great brakes, and hydraulics to boot. If you wanted the draft control to bury a plow it would. The 4010 has to be my favorite.

I drove small utility tractors feeding cows and brush hogging starting when I was about 12. At 14 I went to work for a farmer and he said when he hired me he just needed me to plow while he and his other hand ran his haying business.

He took me out and set me in his 1979 835 Versatile with a 24’ Sunflower chisel and made the first round. He rode the next round with me and then turned me loose. I rode that tractor all summer for 2 summers and enjoyed it even though it was boring. Had good A/C and a radio. And like Sam says that 855 Cummins is a great old power plant. I don’t ride tractor plowing much anymore but I do still get to make some smoke with an 855 Cummins occasionally, our fire pump at work is powered by one and I get to fire it up to test it once a month!

Nowadays my favorite is our old 856 International. It leaks everything it’s supposed to have in it but it’s as reliable as a claw hammer. Pretty good old machine from back when they were a lot simpler.

I could never see those old plain steel seats.

1988 Deere 4450. Bought new by my grandpa. New cab kit, clutch, and main bearings at 10k hours a couple years ago. A good buff and wax and it looks like new. I don't think I have pictures....just ran it yesterday blowing snow.

IH 656 hydrostatic here

595 Case

Today I’m sporting an old Kubota L3250. It does everything I need.

We've moved to my wife's folks' place, and there's a 544 farmall hydro that we cut and bale with. Nice unit.