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Don(MI) 
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Joined: 15 Sep 2009
Location: Michigan
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 Topic: What's the most fun you ever had?
Posted: 7 hours 44 minutes ago at 8:43am |
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I'm talking about most fun to your own definition with old Allis tractors!
Could be a barn find? Unburying it after years of storage?
Could be an old tractor starting up from a 30 year nap.
Could be taking a salvage tractor to fully functional condition?
Could be farming the back 40 acres cutting hay?
Could be a tractor parade with your family?
What was the best memory to you??
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Galatians 5:22-24
"I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!"
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john2189
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Joined: 11 Sep 2009
Location: Minerva,Ohio
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Posted: 7 hours 21 minutes ago at 9:06am |
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I was new to tractors in the early 90s. I bought a c with a b front axle. It came with a sickle bar. I bought it to mow my lot that was over grown with weeds. I started mowing with it and was making rounded turns at the corners. One time when I was at the end of the row, I hit the right brake while turning and it made a perfect 90 degree turn.
It was amazing to see how the bar swept around to make the corner.
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'41 Allis B
'49 Farmall Cub
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Nathan (SD)
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Joined: 11 Sep 2009
Location: Day County SD
Points: 1326
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Posted: 7 hours 5 minutes ago at 9:22am |
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Some memories of sounds you never forget.
B on a buzz saw. The governor kicking in halfway through a
good sized log
D15 on a feed grinder ( still do this occasionally)
D19 gas on a silage blower pushing it up 90ft.
E gleaner engine with a 30kw generator attached
WD45 going a 1/4 mile with a 4row cultivator and listening to
the brake pedal bang on the footrest turning on the end
7000 plowing in the fall darkness. You could see the stadium lights
and hear the engine like you were standing next to it.
7040 with the discbine makes a sweet sound with the 2 steady tones.
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dfwallis
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Joined: 09 Mar 2023
Location: Texas / Indiana
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Posted: 5 hours 55 minutes ago at 10:32am |
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Most fun was plowing with a CA in the 1960s and 70s. Second discing with an 8 foot dunham lehr disc with a heavy drag. Third planting corn with a two row. I'm not sure grandpa was happy with my performance, he only let me do it once (I was about 12). I also spread orchard grass seed with a broadcast spreader. It fit the CA, but I don't think it belonged to grandpa, I think he borrowed it. I'm pretty sure I cultivated a garden at least once, but I can't really remember clearly.
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1952 CA13092, CA Pickup Plow, CA Cultivator, CA Two Row Planter, Dunham-Lehr GC78 Disc, Grader Blade, 3pt Fm180 Finish Mower
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TedN
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Joined: 30 Apr 2025
Location: Central WA
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Posted: 5 hours 31 minutes ago at 10:56am |
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Thinking about this makes me wonder about my sanity. Most of my best memories are running through the night and getting done as the sun is coming up, usually running a baler. Did it twice this year, once on the seriesIII and once on the 7030. When I had my 7060 years ago I liked to plow at night, less distractions to what you are doing. Nothing quite like watching the sun come up on a completed job.
In the last three years we have had at least three times that we have finished baling with the stackers right behind us and the rain hitting less than half an hour later.
I bought the 7030 and the D14 this year at auction for low prices on both, that was fun too. And then finding that they were each in better shape than expected was a fun experience.
Lots of what I would consider fun experiences, but I can't think of one that sticks out as the most fun.
Ted
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190XTD seriesIII, 190XTD seriesI, maroon belly 7000, 7030, 7045, D14, 190XTD series??? project(or maybe parts)
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Kip-Utah
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Joined: 14 Sep 2009
Location: Southern Utah
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Posted: 5 hours 4 minutes ago at 11:23am |
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The time that Dad, my son , and I all won first place trophies at the same tractor pull. Treyson won the 2,500 class on a 1948 B. Dad won the 3,500 class on a 1937 WC, and I won two classes: 3,000 class on a 1950 C and the 4,000 class on a 1938 WC. Actually lots of "best times" playing tractors with Dad & Treyson, with more to come! At 92 years old Dad is still an active participant and we'll all be pulling again in a couple weeks!!
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HANSEN'S OLD ORANGE IRON. Showing, Pulling, & Going!!
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daveingreenbay
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Joined: 09 Oct 2009
Location: Green Bay
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Posted: 48 minutes ago at 3:39pm |
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My first time driving a tractor, my uncles F20, I was only 7 years old. It was summer in the late 40's and it was time to bring loose hay into the barm for winter storage. This was prior to using a Bayler. Picture a tractor a hay wagon and a hay loader attached to the rear of the wagon. It was a long train of implements. My uncle, and my grandfather were on the wagon. One of them would get off the wagon, put the tractor in first gear, let out the clutch. My job was to stay on the row of windrowed hay. That was a pretty impresive job for a 7 year old. The fact that they trusted me to do a good job still amazes me. Its a memory I will take to my grave
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