So who's into tractors

[Mackman]

Grew up working John Deeres and Oliver’s. Have a few, and one currently doing a restoration.

 

[Basket case]

my late Uncle had crawlers, tractors, and hit n miss engines.

 

[Hey-O]

Theresa's cousin has a gentleman's farm. He farms 27 acres of it just to play with 17 or 18 tractors. He loves to pull and goes to pulls constantly. I have one on the wall of my office.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

I have been to steam school a couple times and I am able to operate steam tractors.

 

[#41]

I wasn't into them much until I decided that I needed one

Someone gave me a Ford 1500 that had not run in years. I pulled it out of a field and had it up and running the same day. Just a bad battery cable, incorrectly wired new start switch, and brake adjustment needed to make it usable. The loader is super handy for picking up heavy stuff and moving it around, hopefully saving my back from more problems. I ended up putting a small PTO backhoe on it as well.... so my "free" tractor is not "free" anymore.

Now of course, I go to tractor shows and events and try not to buy any antique tractors. It's not easy since they are so cheap!

 

[guy gadbois]

I love em. Don't have one, but really like em. Go to the huge Vintage tractor/Stem Engine/Stationary engine show at Pawnee with regularity. had [RIP Sonny] a family friend that was really into old John Deeres - actually still used an old 2 cylinder Deere on his farm til his passing]- and went to several vintage 'pulls' with him. Regrettably got started on old tractor toys too...

 

[68gtxman]

I always wanted a backhoe, mainly because they are tractors with options. I bought a bunch of accessories for it, so it is my Swiss army tool for the property. I wish I had bought it twenty years ago.

 

[Ray70Chrg]

My 1st experience driving anything was in 1957 when I was just 10 years old and learned to drive a Ford tractor. My relatives had a large place in NY state where I got to spend many summers with my cousins. I can remember that I could stand on the clutch pedal and have to pull up on the bottom of the steering wheel in order to fully dis-engage the clutch. Also, I didn't understand the sequence of using the 4 speed. I thought you just picked out your favorite number and started there. Needless to say, my cousins all thought this was very entertaining. The 2 brake pedals were also a bit of a mystery. Great memories.

 

[hemiheadnc]

...I have a couple of pics from 1949/1950 sitting on my Gran Dads MTA gas when I was maybe 1 year old..see if I can did those up...

 

[Dodge-Scatpack]

I recently attended a Wheel Horse tractor show in Biglerville PA. Great show dedicated to the Wheel Horse brand. Just like Chrysler at Carlisle in that they have a swap meet and show field.

 

[Basket case]

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[Basket case]

1936 IH TD40

 

[Cop car wagon]

I married a farmers daughter. The John Deere memorablia around the house is real. I would like an old tractor, but my brother in law will not cut loose with one of the 20 antique tractors around the farm.
Coolest one is the 1929 Case model A with a 500ci 4 cyl.
Then there's the Case twins, sequential serial numbers, one bought new by grandpa, one bought 55years later at a farm sale 200 miles from selling dealer.
Then @hunt2elk
Saddest demise of a tractor is me unloading scrap next to a guy unloading his grandpas 1953 golden jubilee ford.
His dad had pulled the bodywork off to repaint, after a misguide trip orange. Then died. Son was cleaning up
Complete, but apart, good tires , ran.
Dumped for scrap. I saved a engine cover side for wall art. Scrap yard "owned" anything that hit the ground. Side cover was still in the truck, so I could get it.

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

I bought this 64 Oliver 550 Diesel 15 years ago to grade my non county maintained road. Z-split it 10 years ago and re-sleeved it and went from 145ci to 155ci because they no longer make the smaller version kit. All new clutch, throw out bearing and all seals. Oliver had a Dealership in Marianna Fl. to the west of me and was the farthest south they ever got. Lots of them still over there on farms. Even had it down to my friends beach house after hurricane Micheal in 2018 to reclaim the gazebo I built them in 2007.

 

[Cop car wagon]

Beach life for a tractor!
Who'd of thought?

 

[pricer140]

This is a stock Oliver with a Detroit diesel, I believe 2-cycle diesel. Can’t imagine being in the field with this 8-10 hours a day. Apparently you have to these maxed out as they have a hard time recovering. I go every year to watch this tractor. Hurts your ears.

 

[68-500]

I bought this 64 Oliver 550 Diesel 15 years ago to grade my non county maintained road. Z-split it 10 years ago and re-sleeved it and went from 145ci to 155ci because they no longer make the smaller version kit. All new clutch, throw out bearing and all seals. Oliver had a Dealership in Marianna Fl. to the west of me and was the farthest south they ever got. Lots of them still over there on farms. Even had it down to my friends beach house after hurricane Micheal in 2018 to reclaim the gazebo I built them in 2007.
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I can see that floor jack sweating from here. I bet it said uff da when you put the frontend back on!

 

[moparwacko]

It's funny how I remember the brand loyalists in our area. Our county was full of small dairy farms, and each farmer would never own or even use a tractor which wasn't his brand. You were either green, red, or blue, nothing else. There were a few outliers using Masseys or AC'S but very few. I've never owned a classic, but have worked on many 8 & 9's over the years.
When I retired, I promised myself I would never use a wheelbarrow again.

 

[GTXDAN]

This is a stock Oliver with a Detroit diesel, I believe 2-cycle diesel. Can’t imagine being in the field with this 8-10 hours a day. Apparently you have to these maxed out as they have a hard time recovering. I go every year to watch this tractor. Hurts your ears.

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Here's something you might not know about that Detroit that's in that Oliver. That's a left handed engine. It runs backwards. You can tell this because the blower is on the left side of the block. Most normal Detroits had the blower on the right side. Back in the 50s - 60s the old buses (Greyhounds) used left hand Detroits because the engine was behind the axle (regular axle just turned over with yoke in back) so they needed it to turn backwards to make the bus drive right. The blower and the cam are both different for that engine to run backwards. Probably if you can remember the starter mounts from the back on the engine. I overhauled a bus engine (6-71) that was one of those left handed engines many years ago.

 

[Curiousyellow71]

Since we are talking detroit 2 strokes...I found a picture of my cousins homemade tractor.
8v92ta in the front 450hp
8v92 in the back 380hp
13 speed on each with two pairs of everything in the cab. It held 900 gallons of fuel in its home made fuel tanks. I think they built in the late 70s.