Rember Bringing Your Tractor Home

I pulled my non running CA home with the WD.  The WC was pushed onto the trailer with a Skidsteer, tilted the trailer at home and let it roll off behind the garage.  The D15 drove on, hauled it 80mi. and drove it off
I use the CA and blade, but it still needs alot of work.  Worked on the WC carb, runs like a top.  Got back yesterday from a one day, 75 mi Tractor Ride with D 15 II.  The tractor did fine, but the old man on it was pretty beat.   lol

My 45 diesel which was my dad's came home before I had a trailer.   I wish I would have took pictures.  I took a long section of 2 1/2 inch pipe and bolted a trailer hitch on one end and welded two chains on the other end, and then used the chains and bolted one on each side through one of the bolt holes for the front bolster.   We had an old pickup truck which looked really rough in itself, and the wife pulled me home and I sat on the tractor and steered it home.   The WD I have was memorable because it was a good deal and I went to buy it before anyone else did.  I went on a Saturday in January to look at it.   It was 5 below outside.  I didn't have a winch but the owner had a chain hoist so I used that to drag it on the trailer, with one flat rear tire and the other wheel locked up and not turning.   By the time I was done getting it on the trailer I was dripping in sweat.   Since then I got lazy and bought a winch for my trailer, so things aren't so eventful. 

i drove my first tractor home. white 2-105...about 65 miles...i was excited for about 20 of it! the rest of the way i was pretty much done with it! haha! it was a great feeling turning into the driveway! i probably looked outside 100 times that night smiling at it in the driveway.

A friend of mine brought my WD home for me. It was the middle of winter and the roads were frozen. Luckily, my friend was pulling the trailer with his tow truck. (87Chevy 4x4 350, 1 ton rear axle, home made wrecker boom, for those who are wondering) There was so much ice that the tires just spun trying to drive it up the ramps. We had to use the winch to pull the tractor on the trailer. On the way home he came upon a SUV in the ditch. Pulling a 3500lb trailer with a WD on it,he hooked a chain from the trailer to the SUV and pulled them out of the ditch. We unloaded the tractor and I plowed the driveway. That was a good day.

Brian

I got Lena(35WC) home in May of 1999. My SIL and I went to look at this thing, which belonged to his Grandfather, and his uncle pulled it out of the timber after I cut the mulberry tree out of the drawbar. I got my trailer and we conned the neighbor into bringing his loader tractor over to push this great find on my trailer. I have since bought a winch too Chuck. Anyway I got her home in one piece without any lookers that I saw cause it was about 6 miles by gravel road from home. Here is Lena after unloading.                     

Here again after tinkering for 10 years.
She now has the engine back in and is drivable but needs an aircleaner and some tinwork before painting.

When I started farming back in 1983 I bought my first tractor, a 1975 7060, it was at a farm sale 60 miles from home. I went back with Dad and drove it home the next day. It had 30.5 x 32 tires and I traded Denny down at Red Bud IL for a complete set of 18.4 x 38's with duals. I've been through two other 7060's, a 7080 and now have an 8050 but she's still here almost 28 years later.

It wasn't my first tractor but it was the most memorable.  About 18 years ago, my cousin in law, Dale VanDuesen in Ohio found a Silver King Model 42 and bought it and hauled it to their farm.  I drove my 10 year old Toyota pickup back to Ohio, 1400 miles, with an trailer axle in the back.  Dale and I built a trailer frame with a couple 6" channel irons and mounted the tractor to it.  Put the wheels in the truck box and headed for Colorado.  In Collinsville, Ill, I noticed some of my welds were breaking so I found a welding shop to repair my poor workmanship.  Left the trailer at the shop and checked out the Gateway Arch.  Headed on home that afternoon, got to KC, Ks for the night then the next day had a blowout on the trailer.  It had the same wheels as the pickup but getting the spare off the Toyota was a hassle and then I discovered it touched the frame so I had to use one of the wide wheels on the pickup.   Of course I only had one jack so it took a while to move everything around.  Went to Ellis, Ks, 15 miles west of where the trouble started and found a good used tire at a gas station just off I70,  For like $10 I was back on the road.  (I did sneak another $10 onto his desk as I left).  The rest of the trip home was fairly normal except for the hail storm and rain in eastern Colo.  Oh, by the way, there were no springs on the trailer so every crack in the interstate telegraphed up to the drivers seat.
An adventure to be sure!

About 25 years ago my wife had gone to some function so I went to this auction 15 miles away. I had no intention of buying anything. When the WD, with loader came up only a few people were bidding. Nobody seemed to want it very bad. I raised the bid to $600.00 and to my surprise I go it. I left my car there started driving it home. One of the rams for the loader was leaking oil so when I had gone about 5 miles I knew the oil would all run out before I got home. My brother lived close by so I stopped at his place and we blocked the loader up so the oil didn't leak anymore. Made it home ok after that.
Sure enjoyed that ride home. Richard

My first one was a 1968 D 21, bought at farm sale when I started farming, went to fatherinlaws for a ride back to drive the tractor to his place about 15 miles away for the nite, he took me back and I thought great but then he said, we going to hook up the pickup so I can ride in the tractor too, he had a hitch on the pickup, I will never forget that. That is still a great memory.

Bought my first tractor from a local farmer about 8 miles from my place. He stuck his farm plate on it and told me to bring it back after I got my '48 C home! It was, I believe, February and just a bit chilly for a rode trip on a tractor.

My first was a john deere, 1947 model A.  It was about 6 miles from my house, the guy that owned it had broken the governor and timing gears in it.  He was not mechanically inclined and he destroyed the radiator trying to get it apart.  I was about 13 and he came to me and asked if I could fix it.  I had a parts tractor and I took the governor shaft out of it and took it over to his place and installed it, retimed the mag and had it running about 2 hours later.  water just gushed out of the damaged radiator.   I had gone home and the next day he came over and asked me how little he would have to take for me to be the new owner of that tractor.  It was early summer and I usually made about $600 dollars doing work for the neighbors through the summer and I told him I could give $300 for it, I for sure didnt expect to hear him say sold!!  I then told him I didnt have the cash yet it would take me a few weeks to work it up and I would come get the tractor when I had the cash.  NO he said you come get it know and pay me later, I want it gone.  So I went home with him filled it full of water and drove it home.  I got a shower on the way but it was still cool to drive my tractor home.  I got the radiator fixed for $50 but I used that tractor to rake hay and play for many years without so much as a dime spent on it.

Left 2 days after  9-11 happen,headed for Rolag Mn . to pick up 1925 20-35 Longfender.Drove straight out non stop 2 drivers .A little excitment on the way with my other driver ,but he ended up NOT Walking home  LOL.Started tractor and drove it on the trailer . Left there headed to Larry Swenson's ,spent the night with them ,great people. Then headed down past Dave Fergson's ,on to Norn Meinert's.Stoped by Brain B. to check out his Longfender he just got from Swenson and headed for home .5 days over 3 thousand miles. This is 1 reason my wife will not go along when I buy tractor far away.

 I can think of a few more reasons why she won't go along Fred...Harvey

Nothing wrong with an Oliver. If It was 40 years ago Oliver on an Allis site would be fighting words but now they are like sisters togeather under the almighty AGCO.

I have hauled over ten WD/WD45 tractors home in the last seven years. This was a real fun one to buy and get home. Dad and I went to a farm sale about 50 miles from home when we got there the old WD45 looked like it was going to the bone yard, There was parts laying all around three WD/WD45 tractors and all of them where in palles, I was looking for power steering for a WD45 at the time and one had F-PS on it. I sored parts for the three tractors out before the sale started and well $500. lather it was mine. Them I had to get a trailer to get her home on, That was a trip to the trailer sales store. Well you guys have all been through that stuff too. It is a 1957 WD45.