Tracked down another family tractor-Dad's A-C 7020

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   A few weeks ago back some of the girls at work were filing away some old purchase order's from the dealership that I work at and they ran across some paper work from the mid-80's, one of which had the purchase information from the 7020 that my Dad traded in on his 8030.  My Dad's old 7020 was purchase by a local feedyard that has a reputation for being a little hard on equipment, so I knew going in that this search probably would not have a happy ending.  I talked to the owner of the feedlot and he told me that the 7020 had been hauled off to a local salvage yard several years back.  I paid a visit to that salvage yard last week and looked around in their yard and didn't see it so I asked them if they could search their records for dismantled machines and they confirmed by serial number that Dad's old 7020 was dismantled in early 1998.

Dad purchased this 7020 from Koletzky Implement Inc. in Yankton, SD, in the Spring of 1984.  Dad never liked the A-C 7000 series tractors cabs or long hoods, but after Grandpa retired from farming, Dad picked up all his land and needed to go from four row equipment to eight row equipment.  The 200 would pull an eight row planter pretty good with the fuel pump turned up, but struggled lifting an eight row Bufflo cultivator so a bigger tractor was needed and this 7020 was priced right.  Dad was the third owner of the tractor by this time and it had less than a 100 hours on it.  One of the previous owners had a loader on the 7020 that left some noticeable scratches on the left hand hood that I remembered from my childhood.

7020 the day it was delivered.  This little DC Case got traded in on it.

Cultivating in the Summer of 1984.

7020 ready for harvest Fall of 1984.

Me with the 7020 and a load of small square bales in Summer of 1985.  

The 7020 was the first tractor that I ever drove by myself, during oats season I would get to drive it through the field while other stacked the small square bales on the planter cart.   I also hauled my first load of grain with this same tractor.  A memory of the 7020 that me and my brother both remember vivadly is of one harvest just after sundown we went looking for ear corn out in the field, a little while later the 7020 was coming after us wide open, stadium lights baring down on us, it looked and sounded awesome, lights on the shiney orange paint and all, and when that tractor came to a stop we both got a spanking that neither one of us ever forgot to this day.  We never strayed to far from the tractor or combine after that.

While I was at the salvage yard I asked them if they had anything left from the 7020, they told me they might have some of the sheet metal left, so we went flipping through some 30-40 hood panels that they had and the minute I seen this scratch, I knew it was Dad's old hood.

On the back side it was marked in marker with "SN 4138"  Dad's old serial number.  I asked them how much for the hood panel and they wanted $275, I wasn't going to pay that much, and after I told them the story they said they would take $50 for it, I firgued it was worth that to me.  I didn't get the tractor home, but I have something from it now.

Just wanted to share.  Thanks.

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