Personal touches

What are some of the personal touches that your tractors have. 

Well! That issue is entirerly too personal to be discussed on this forum! 

well, there is a heat hauser bracket by the steering wheel shaft that has been on my WD45 since Dad put it on in the winter of '68 so I could be warm hauling manure. I was in the 8th grade. Dad is gone, the heat hauser is gone but the bracket is still there. I have even painted around it. Just a memory. Thats all this old junk is anyway.....

SHAMELESS wrote: a crome naked lady on the front grills of my 7010 and 180.

you wouldn't remember where you got those would you?

My Lena has a starter, generator and lights. All things the original owner put I that I "cleaned up" a bit when I restored her. I add a toggle switch to short the mag out in reach of a seated position. I also added a belt pulley shifter so I can turn it off and on from the seat. That came off the parts tractor I bought to help put the 35 back together.

Our Deere 4520 had a dent caused by my anger, too. That tractor is now in the big field in the sky, but I kept the wooden knob that my father built when the 3 point knob broke off. It was just a wood 2x2, but I pulled it off andd have it in my desk at work. Even my father doesn't know that I kept the knob. That was the only tractor we had until I was 19, so I wanted to keep a piece of it.

The CA has a good sized dent in the gas tank, I left it that way cause. The old barn has swing open doors on the north side. Dad always swung the one to the east and then the other west and pulled the 4x4 from between to lean against the west door to keep it open if a westerly breeze came up. The Monkey wards Hammermill set to the west side right inside the door so he would belt the CA and grind feed about once a week. One day, for some reason, that 4x4 fell over the gas tank of the CA 

Mike..you gits them at truck stops!

Coat hanger wire holding hyd lines up.

I usually like to add a little detail to my Tractors when I restore them. I usually paint the steering boxes rebuilders grey, always use new cap screws and nuts, and usually use Stainless hardware on the sheetmetal with a plastic washer under the head of the bolt so it doesn't chip the paint. When I make the new oil and fuel lines, I usually polish em' up to add a little detail to the engines. My latest WF project has quite a bit of detail to it. The RC is next in line for the big Tractors. I wanna finish up the 620 first though..

My CA has a steering knob that my father had put on it close to 40 years ago from the B we had prior to it. Knob is probably close to 50 + years old. My D17 has a really nice heavy duty tool box which I had got from Burgh's salvage yard years ago for $10.00, it's painted yellow it came off of a state maintance tractor.

Marc

My 8n Ford has a 3030 bullet hole in the rear fender. I left it as reminder to unload before getting on the tractor.  Shooting hogs in the hayfield.

Cumberland Farms as small convenience stores all over New England. The previous owner bought this 4020 at their auction when they decided to do the herd buyout, and not produce the milk for there stores anymore. It was a 2000 acre farm, south and west of Boston. I'll leave the decal on there to show the history of the tractor. Tim

roll bar looking frame attached to the fenders on my 180, it's 2" exhaust pipe bent and fitted together, it's used to hold 2 rear field lights, 2 front field lights and 2 road warning lights. painted orange, made and given to me for Christmas by my BIL that worked at Midas! looks great!

my wd had been repainted po #2  creme color rims and grill and gearshift extensionthat clamped onthe gearshift about half way up that whent out sideways  also the allis chalmers hood emblems of a d17 my grandfather did this in 1969 about 1976 ,78 somthime there i welded a washer onthe fender because the work light kept breaking off got in trouble for burning the paint