How many of ya
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Topic: How many of ya
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Subject: How many of ya
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 8:43pm
remember riding around with your father...sitting on the tool box of a WD45D as a kid? I think I was probably 3 or 4 years old and often waited for my dad to come to the end of the field (with the disk, cultivator or plow) and stop so I could climb on and sit on the tool box, hang onto the fenders and enjoy the ride. I also remember my dad ignoring me, not stopping, and I...crying my eyes out....as he faded into the distance.....
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Posted By: Dale H. ECIL
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:03pm
I always hang out with my Dad from the time I could walk. I read on here the other day where some of the guys started driving tractors at the age of 7 or 8. I guess my Dad was over protective because he did not let me drive the WD45 until I was 12 but I rode on the tool box a lot of miles.
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Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:11pm
I rode many hours on the tool box on a series 4 D17 and on the tool box on a WD45. I grew up in town. I had an aunt and uncle that farmed. It was about a 4 hour ride in the car to get there. I spent several weeks in the summer for a number of years there. When I got big enough, the first tractor I got to drive was a B with hand brakes. Later on since I was always kind of a skinny kid, I got to drive the D17 to pick up hay. Uncle "Winnie" passed in 86. Aunt Zella sold the farm a few years after. A couple months ago we just had to put her in a nursing home due to alzheimers.
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Posted By: Russ-neia
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:36pm
Slept on the cab floor (Cozy Cab) of 190XT when dad was disking or plowing and polished the fender on Series IV D-17 hanging onto radio while dad cut hay. Even spent some time beside the seat in the 7040. No way to fit in any of those places again!
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:39pm
I remember Dad plowing the garden patch with the CA when I was about 5 or 6. I was on the left fender and my younger brother Jim was on the right fender.
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Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF
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Posted By: bigfish_Oh
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:41pm
I remember living in town on the corner opposite the elevator being 4-5
years old. Me and my brother knew Granpa had to come back in with
another wagon of grain. We ran in house, packed a suitcase and waited to
go back out to the farm !! I spent many hours on that tool box holding
onto the old muffler he bolted to fender(I still have the fender with
the reinforced patch) to hold the umbrella. When I had my kids I
suddenly appreciated what Granpa done for us, it is kinda crowded on the
'45 !
I took my wife to the old farm house today while we garage saleing during the covered bridge festival(3 local), The house,built in 1877 at a cost
of 10K, had the brick redone in the late 70's for about 10K. It was put in
the Ohio Historical Registry sometime after that and willed to an Ohio state Frat, then sold 2 years later. The current owners have farmed it since Granpa left in 67. We were both beyond breathless of how
it was inside.
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1941 WC sat for 29 years,started & dynoed 27 h.p.
1957 WD45 Grandpa bought new,factory p.s.,added wfe
1951 WD, factory p.s.
1960 D14 HnMk IV BkHoe 4 sale
2014 HD Tri Glide
2009 GMC CC SLT Dually
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Posted By: bigfish_Oh
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:46pm
The owner of the farm had sent home 2 Lambretta TV 175's from Italy in '58. Grandpa got one of them. Dad rode us around the fields and roads, the dog at my feet peering around the front , my chin on the speedometer, and Don sitting behind him. I did have it in town when I turned 16(1975). It's gone because I did not go get it and dad tossed it or buried it.
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1941 WC sat for 29 years,started & dynoed 27 h.p.
1957 WD45 Grandpa bought new,factory p.s.,added wfe
1951 WD, factory p.s.
1960 D14 HnMk IV BkHoe 4 sale
2014 HD Tri Glide
2009 GMC CC SLT Dually
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Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:51pm
many hours on the toolbox with Grandpa. First on the WD cultivating, later on the D17 mostly doing the same. Other tasks were probably considered too dangerous to have me along. It was the daycare of the late 50s I guess.
My uncle that lived near Columbus Ohio had 'other brands' that usually did not have such a good place to ride along. I remember riding on the tank of an old Ferguson. On his Farmalls and Deeres I remember on the seat, in front of the seat (standing) , on the axle housing (standing), on the hitch (standing). The first cab tractor I got to ride was his Case 1030 in 1968.
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1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless
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Posted By: Jeff Z. NY
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:51pm
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I remember riding on the tractor with Dad but it was green.
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:56pm
Here ya go Larry. http://www.maggiemaggi.com/Portals/0/Gallery/Album/9/Lambretta%20TV%20175%20%201963%20BASSA.jpg - http://www.maggiemaggi.com/Portals/0/Gallery/Album/9/Lambretta%20TV%20175%20%201963%20BASSA.jpg
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Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF
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Posted By: Ryan Renko
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 9:57pm
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GREAT POST!!!!! I spent many fun hours sitting on that toolbox of both wds!!! I sit in the drivers seat now and wonder how the hell I ever sat there and had so much fun!!! Ryan
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Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 10:04pm
I have thought the same. I see those toolboxes and realize have small I must have been to fit there.
Another odd memory for me... I remember a specific field with my Grandfather on the WD and across the road was a big steam tractor in the barnyard. The man who lived there was a 'tractor collector' and took it to 'antique tractor shows'.
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1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless
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Posted By: Roddo
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 10:17pm
I dont know how my dad did it, but he had me on the right fender and my brother on the left on both the WD45 and his bigger JD 3130. A LOT more crowded on the 45 thats for sure.
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Posted By: Brad MI
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 10:18pm
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I spent a lot of hours straddling a CA gas tank holding onto the cultivator adjustment handles. Not so many on the WD45 toolbox, but I did ride there a lot. By 10 years old I was in the seat of the 45 most of the summer and then dad bought a 190 because I fit it so well and had so much better control with the platform station. After that I lived on the 190 for field work and CA cultivating row crops.
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2010 at 11:34pm
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we rode with dad on the "h" or "m" one foot on the drawbar, one on the axle housing hanging on to the light bar and back of the seat. when we got tired, he let us off. no fenders, no tool boxes, nuthin to sit on! then dad bought a new JD (pffft) a 3020, had fenders, the school girls would ride with me cuz my tractor had fenders! guess that was the only thing good about the JD. it sure wasn't a very good farm tractor!
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Posted By: clovis
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 7:08am
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I rode along too, but the color was red.
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Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 7:57am
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I have the same memories on a tool box just weighting to get in the seat of a WD. And yes just how heck did we fit on there? Thanks Eldon this is a good post!
Don
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3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep.
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Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 8:27am
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My time on the toolbox was short because I moved to the seat when I was 5. Been there ever since. I do remember me and my brothers riding with dad, Dave on the toolbox, Bill on dad's lap and me on the back step, talk about crowded!
When we got our 4020 I was the main driver for 5 years until I went to college. Dad used to call me at school to ask me about how different things worked on the tractor, LOL.
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Posted By: WC7610
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 8:33am
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D17 tool box. The umbrella attachment was just perfect for a hand hold on the Series I and the headllight on the Series III was my handhold on that tractor.
Also remember sitting on the arm pad of our E Gleaner.
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Posted By: MBolton
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 8:45am
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It was a progression from Dad's lap to the toolbox to the right hand fender to the seat!
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Posted By: Jeff-in-Kunkletown
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 8:58am
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We only had a B, which was great because of the wide seat.
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Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 9:13am
I remember sitting on the fender of the D15 brush hogging, sitting on the tank of the HD4 when working it, and sitting between the seat and side of the cab in the 4550 Ford Backhoe many, many times as a young man
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1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
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Posted By: Charlie175
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 9:27am
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Hung off the side of a D15, dad let me push/pull the PD or put foot my against to hold it in high range when it wouldn't stick. Rode the Model 66 Platform a lot also making sure the grain was coming in good and to level the hopper off to get in as much as we could.
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Charlie
'48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD
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Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 9:32am
yeah dad used to stand me in front of him on the HD4 and let me steer
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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110
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Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 10:04am
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I did not ride with Pop since he was a dealer. However, he used to pull me around in a combine bagger platform - we sold baggers in Maryland. One time I remember there was snow on the ground and the tractor slipped and the combine fell on the loading platform. Scared a three year old. I was told when I got off I ran to Mom.
When I was older - and not a lot older but I had to reach the pedals- the B and later C came out and I was driving.
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: powertech84
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 12:45pm
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Rode alot on that toolbox myself. Also spent plenty of time on that big fender of the 4010 deere, and even sleeping in the back window of the 986 while moldboard plowing.
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Posted By: Darrell Roberts
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 12:53pm
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Spent many hours perched on the toolbox of Dad's D14 whlle he cullivated or mowed hay. My daughter spent time of her own either with me or her grandpa and now both of my grandkids are getting to spend time with me.... some of it on that same D14. Money can't buy momories like that.
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Posted By: Brian NC
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 12:54pm
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I grew up riding the tool box of a d-14 on my grandfather's cattle and poultry farm. I would lean over against him and go to sleep while he was baling hay, the quick governor responce when the plunger on the baler packed the hay in the chamber was better than any rocking chair. He would take a break from baling to check things in the chicken houses and take me in the house to granny, by the time he had finished looking in on the chickens, I would be sitting on the tractor waiting. Pa is gone now but I'm blessed to get to farm his land with my parents still using alot of his equipment and letting my 5-year old son get some time on the tool box.
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Posted By: ToddSin NY
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 12:58pm
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I rode on the WD fender while dad had a New Idea(?) 2 wheel turner on the front for hay. That was before he bought the Aliis rake. I feel asleep and feel off the back. It knocked the wind out of me and scared me to death! Dad stopped and said you ok? After I caught my breath and stopped crying I said ya. Come on he said lets go we got more work to do!
I also spent many sleeping hours on the tool box of the Oliver 1650. I fit in between the seat and fender perfect (at that time) and didn't fall off!
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Posted By: Chris (swIA)
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 2:02pm
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I spent a few hours riding the fender of the D 17 series 4 while planting. I spent alot more hours sleeping on the back window of a 1066 when day was custom haying. That came to a halt when I got big enough that I popped the back window out when we hit a washout. I spent alot of hours riding that 17 hauling hay holding my foot on the power director lever so it wouldn't come out of gear going down hill.
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Posted By: Russ SCPA
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 2:46pm
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WD and it was my grandfather's. Somehow the tractor must have shrunk as there just isn't anywhere near the room around that toolbox today as there was 50 years ago.
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Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 3:30pm
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We never had a Tool box on the WD so I road standing on the step leaning against the fender. My son hasit made I put a seat in the front left corner of the cab on my WD45. He rides there leaning against the tool box with his feet on the battery box. Both Luke and Rachaele ride on the C when I mow. it gets a little crowded when they ride together.
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Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 4:04pm
You know, I can't remember riding on the tractor. What I do remember is being put on the seat of the WC to steer while Dad,my brother and Uncle loaded hay. Dad would put it in gear and get it moving and also come jump back up when it needed to be stopped. Also remember being put on a brockway to disk ahead of Dad planting corn before I was even old enough to start school, so am assuming I was five at the time as brother wasn't there which can only mean he was in school. Good times and good days. Thanks for bring back the memories.
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Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 4:12pm
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All of you must be young I spent my time on fender of wc .Had 16 dice harrow rode it a lot. Had all crop 60 bagger. Rode it for years tieing sacks.I think i rode it six weeks one year.Like to see pictures of 60 with bagger.
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Posted By: clovis
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 6:27pm
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One thing I remember was standing on the draw bars of Farmall H and M's while dad drove. He was pretty particular about safety, and us getting hurt...it is a wonder he ever let us on that tractor when it was running. He never let us stand on the draw bar if he was towing something.
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Posted By: Maurice/Pa.
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 6:29pm
I sat on the brake cover of a wd45d with my feet resting on the hyd. ram.
the clutch peddle and my dad's foot were in my wast. with my brother standing on the platform holding onto the fender, we would ride for hours like this,one day i fell a sleep and my one shoe came off when my dad was plowing,it got plowed under,never found the shoe.
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Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2010 at 10:10pm
I wonder if the AC engineer that designed that tool box realized that it would be used as a seat for future AC lovers as much as it was for tools......
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Posted By: D17JIM
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 9:53am
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Rode the toolbox and fender on the wd and wd45. Then went to driving them. Spent time on the platform of Dad's 66 combine also. When I Farmed I had a flat fendered 706D that I bolted a wooden kids seat on and put a saftey belt on so my 3-4 year old son could ride more safe than I did. He used to fall asleep when I was cultivating and that thing had to be very uncomfortable. i can still see the beads of sweat running down his face as his head rolled back and forth. Great memories.
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Posted By: rickwsomd
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 12:55pm
I rode some with my Uncle on the toolbox of a WD45 and on the seat next to him on a B and those few times were what left a longing to have some Allis tractors of my own. On our home place though, we had Farmalls. It wasn't easy riding on a Super C, but somehow we did it. Spent the most time riding on the left axle of a Farmall B while cultivating. It was nice and flat and you could lean back against the fender and put your feet on the transmission housing. When I got a little older, spent more time on the seat of the tobacco planter than anywhere else it seems. Great memories.
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Rick W.(So.MD)
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Posted By: Brian S(NY)
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 1:05pm
Well I guess I was product of Bad upbringing??? Grandpa had fords and John deeres Oh yes and a farmall. Didnt even have an AC combine(his was a case). Still logged many a mile sitting on the fender or sitting in front of gramps when he let me steer. Wish he was here today!
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Posted By: Dave (Mid-MI)
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 2:04pm
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Spent a lot of hours on the WD toolbox as a kid. I remember riding with dad plowing with the lights off on a moonlit night, with the muffler glowing cherry red. Started driving that tractor when I was about 7 or 8. We got our WD45 just before I turned 11. Spent lots of time behind the wheel of the 45.
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Posted By: Kip-Utah
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 4:13pm
Dad, talks often about the big wooden homemade tool box on their '35 WC and spending alot of time riding on that toolbox with his Uncle Hans. I did my time on a MF35 Diesel with my Uncle Sid. No seat belts, no air bags, or automatic locks!!! My my how did we manage! Kip
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Posted By: split51
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 10:58am
I spent many hours on the fender of an Oliver 1800 FWA gas tractor.
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1929 20-35 sn17662
B1 w/snow blade
B10 w/sickle mower
B110 w/mower deck
B110 w/tiller
B112 w/grader blade
B210 w/plo
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Posted By: Sandknob
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 11:36am
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Yep, spent many hours on the toolbox on the 52 WD. Now getting ready to go thru that tractor and fix it up (again). This time plan to do it right though with PPG paint and fix alot of the problems that did not get fixed the first time.
Adam
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Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 8:37pm
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Before I was even old enough to remember, Grandad(we called him paw-paw) would put me on the seat of the C beside him when he was discing or cultivating. I would usually go to sleep and he would hand me off to my grandma when she came out to check on us. When my brother came along, he would have one of us on either side, but I had gotten a little better at not falling asleep by then, and did not want to get off. Sometimes he would let me steer a little, unless he was cultivating. I didn't get to do that until I could drive for myself. We went through the time when I would get off and uncover anything he might have thrown a little dirt over and he would let Erick steer. Then it was draw straws to see who got to drive. Still remember Erick pulling into the yard(most of the fields were across the dirt road), he had just come up the hill from the bottoms, and the clutch lining let loose as soon as he got on the flat ground. Just coasted it up under the big oak tree and shut it down. We all got out there and split it, went over and got another clutch(or maybe that one relined), and put it back together that evening. Was ready to go in the morning. Wish I could go back and do that again. A lot of good memories.
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Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2010 at 6:06am
Logged a few hours on the flat top fender of a MF 180 diesel. Dad sold that tractor when my parents got divorced. Which I could find it and buy it back
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1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start
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