funny tractor story's

My  grand dad died some 20 years ago but he never ever had the unption to drive. He never drove a car or truck in his life but spent many day behind a horse cultivating and the like. One day he was walking back from the fishing hole and found the neighbor shuck on his tractor. by this time though he had brought another tractor to the rescue but to no avail. When the neighbor saw my grand dad he asked him if he would drive one while he drove the other. With much coaxing and instructing he was able to persuade him to drive one. They got the tractor out but as they did the lead tractor that my grand dad was on died which as my grand dad said was a relief.

I always liked the story about the fella that drove his 8n to the local bar. When he left to go home he forgot to raise the plow.He didnt find out till the next day.

my great uncles daddy inlaw would always go to the red dog sallon and get drunk and well the wife didnt like it so they took his license and he just started to drive the 8N lol

my father in law, Ron, told me this one. 

 My Aunt went to live with 2 old maid cousins and their younger brother when Grandma had her second child & stayed there the rest of her life. When she married they stayed to care for the old ladies & to help Lawrence farm the 3 farms. My Uncle bought a McCormick F-20 new with steel wheels, Lawrence was livid. That thing will never replace the horses, it will pack the soil so tight you will never get a plow into it, & those lugs will ruin our lane (the farms were all connected by a mile long private lane) He refused to have anything to do with the tractor until one day with rain coming, they were loading wheat sheaves on the wagon hooked to the tractor, My Uncle & cousin were stacking & pitching so the old man HAD to drive the tractor & since he cound not bear the thought of letting the wheat get wet he agreed grumbling  & complaining. My Uncle said after that they couldn't get him off the tractor, when he died in 58 they had 3 Farmall H's. My earliest memory of the farm are of Lawrence cultivating corn with the horses shortly before he died, he couldn't give them up entirely. Sorry for the long story, hope it was at least amusing. Thanks for the memory...Harvey

My boss, when I was in High School was the Ford Tractor dealer for Boulder.  He told of when he had just gotten the dealership a couple years after he returned from WWII.  The little Fords weren't a great tillage tractor but were handy for planting, cultivating and haying but he couldn't get the old guys to try a little Ford if they had a big Case or IHC.  (There wasn't a close by AC dealer at the time).  He would haul an 8N around the county with an Ford pickup and trailer.  When he saw a big tractor in a yard he would pull in and ask if he could show just how much more power his little Ford had then that old ____ you have.  Most guys would laugh and say "Your on!"  Francis would unload the 8N and back up to the other tractor and first would walk around the tractor showing all the good points of it (easy, tight steering, 3 point hitch, easy to get on and off, etc.  He had made a piece that hooked into the lower 3 point arms with a couple pins in it so he could "save time by not having to hook up a chain"  He would back up and raise the 3 point so his hitch was hooked under the other tractors hitch.  The other driver would start across the yard pulling the 8N until Francis lifted the 3 point a couple inches and suddenly he would be pulling the big tractor across the yard.  He never said how many tractors he sold that way but he sold a lot of tractors around here in the 40 or so years he was in business.

I worked on a large farm in CO with 4 new steigers and 4 new Versatiles. One day we were moving the 4 steigers down the road with 80+ feet of wheat drills pulled length wise. We were in road gear and I was the second or third tractor when the first one ran off the road and out across a field. A roll pin broke on the steering shaft and he was bouncing so hard he couldn't hit the clutch or throttle.  It tore up thousands of dollars worth of equipment but I still laugh every time I think of it. We also had an older steiger with a powershift and it would jump foreward about a foot when you put it in gear. The same guy took out the front of the shop with it.

When my wife and I were first married, and I was just getting into Allis tractor collecting, my wife and I went to an auction that had in the offering a 200 and a D 17 series 1 with a loader on it. I figured the 200 going too rich for my blood, but had high hopes for the D 17. Getting there and looking at the 17, I was quite sure it would go cheap, because it wasn't cleaned up at all. That didn't discourage me, though, because cleaning a tractor up is cheap to do. It wasn't all beat up or anything. When the auctioneers got to it, they first took bids on the tractor and loader separately, then tied them together. Tied together, they needed $2500. My wife said "NO". It's not a pretty tractor. I told her I could sell the loader tomorrow for 3K. "NO". It's not pretty. No one bid, so the tractor and loader went separate ways, and I was mad to say the least, and my wife knew I was mad. I guess she thought she had to redeem herself, because 2 weeks later she stopped at where I worked and told me she bought a D 17 with a loader on it at an auction. I asked her how much. $3600, she said, and before I hit the roof, she said, "but this one is prettier than that last one was. I'm thinking to myself $1100 more because it's prettier. Once again she sensed my frustrations, and was trying to tell me all the reasons why this one was worth so much more, and it about all came down to the fact that it was prettier. I kind of remained calm and optimistic and told her it'd probably work out, and she drove off. She then came back about 2 minutes later and said "Oh, I forgot to tell you, The motor has just been completely rebuilt and still has 30 days warranty left on it, does that make any difference?" Duh, that makes a very big difference. Only the most important part of the whole tractor. In the end after getting the tractor home, it was a much better deal at $3600 than what the $2500 one would have been. So I guess sometimes you have to go for the prettier things i life! Darrel