what was your first tractor??
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Topic: what was your first tractor??
Posted By: acwdwcman
Subject: what was your first tractor??
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 5:57pm
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i was wandering what kind of tractor they got first.
i got a allis wd i was thirteen just like i am now ------------- wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow |
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Posted By: David Gibson (OH)
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:00pm
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1947 C ------------- David Gibson http://www.darkecountysteam.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.darkecountysteam.com 1956 WD45 |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:22pm
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51 CA for me. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:25pm
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1951 WD bought new at my Granfathers A-C dealership by my other Grandfather. He handed it down to my Dad, and Dad handed it down to me. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
Posted By: MNLonnie
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:28pm
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1938 B, kick myself often for selling it. ------------- Waukesha B, B, IB, G, styled WF, D15, 615 backhoe, 2-Oliver OC3's, 4 Ford Model T's, 3 Model A Fords, AV8 Coupe, AV8 Roadster, 1933 Ford Wrecker |
Posted By: michaelwis
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:30pm
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drove home dad,s new D15 series 2 .when i was 8 .. a couple of years later drove home a big brother 190xt.. . still have the 15 ------------- WD WD45 DIESEL D 14 D-15 SERIES 2 190XT TERRA TIGER ac allcrop 60 GLEANER F 6060 7040.and attachments for all Proud to be an active farmer |
Posted By: John WV
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:31pm
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51 WD have had it about 20years |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:34pm
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62 D19 I bought just before I graduated high school in 87. Unless you count a non running WD my Dad gave me a couple years earlier. A 1952 that was one of his first tractors Dad bought. It's finally restored now. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:35pm
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1940 JD Am pulled from the edge of a timber. I had to beat the pistons out with a 16# maul and a 2x4. I used it for pushing snow with a home made 2x6 wood blade. That was in 1978.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: ScottinSWIL
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:35pm
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78 model 7045 bought on auction back in '93. Traded a few years later for an Agco-Allis 9435. |
Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:43pm
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37 WC got 2 years ago when I was 14 ------------- 1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500 |
Posted By: old220
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:44pm
| First tractor was a D15 in 1968,followed by a new 185 in 1981 still have them |
Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:56pm
| My first tractor was a 1980 7080 that my dad gave me |
Posted By: Jamie (KY)
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 6:58pm
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I first drove a 600 Ford in the tobacco patch for the neighbor.
Then Dad bought a JD 720 diesel that I actually got my experience on.
Finally, MY first tractor tractor that I bought and own is my '57 D14 nf. Dad liked it so much that he basically paid for all the parts and I did all the work on it. He knew that I couldn't afford to pay for all that stuff at once so he jumped in and helped. He was determined that we were going to use it to mow our 4 acres with and it was costing about the same as a good lawn mower. ------------- Just when I thought I was finishing my "honey-do-list", she turned the page!!! |
Posted By: allisorange
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:05pm
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!952 WD that was bought for the farm. Traded it for a D17 and sorry we did not keep it.
John Carlson
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Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:06pm
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my first tractor was when I was a young kid....got my dads old 62 Cub Cadet....that thing took a beating....my first real tractor was my 53 WD45
------------- Central PA Allis Express 1934 WC254 1945 WF 1945 WC135755 1951 WD68085 1953 WD45-150217 1957 WD45D-230744D B110 |
Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:10pm
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The WD45 my Dad gave me after I busted my butt to repaint it and get it back together for his fathers day gift. LOL It was always his favorite tractor, I finished it about a week before fathers day and he tells me since I put so much time effort and money into the old girl he thought I ought to have it. I told him I did it for his fathers day gift and he just laughed and said he appriciated that but he still thought I ought to have it. So my first tractor was a WD45 and my first implement was a 6 bottom 16" plow (we pulled with Dad's 7060).
The first tractor I bought was a 1975 7060 that I still have.
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Posted By: jordan watson
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:11pm
| Series one D15 diesel then I bought a john deere 4440 when the cow/calf operation out grew it. |
Posted By: GARY(OH/IN)
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:28pm
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My Dad and his brother bought a COOP E3 new and that did not work well. Lots of who gets it today. Dad sold him his half and bought a used '49 WD in '50. My folks couldn't believe I remember everything about the dealership which wasn't there long after that and picking it up and all. I was THREE at the time.
My first tractor was a JD B hand start bought for $50.00
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Posted By: RSallis-pullinMD
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:29pm
| A 1937 WC that I got when I was 12 and it is still in my shed |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:31pm
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1939 Allis Chalmers B, unless you want to count the John Deere 110 garden tractor my boss gave me. ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: monitordoc
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:34pm
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DAD BOUGHT A NEW WD AND LATER A D-17.. WHEN I BOUGHT OUT DAD I TRADED THE 17 FOR A NEW 180. WHEN I GOT MARRIED OUR FIRST TRACTOR WAS A D-21. ------------- WD,D17-S4,180,D21 |
Posted By: KC/WD
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:47pm
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I just bought it a couple of years ago from the original owner, restored '49 model WD. She's a peach!!!! ------------- I've got anal glaucoma, I just can't see my butt going to work today! |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:51pm
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My first tractor that I OWNED is my D17 Series IV that I inherited in 1997 when my father passed away. The first tractor that I bought for myself is my One-Eighty gas that I bought in the summer of 2005. Mike
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: AaronH
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 7:54pm
| 1948 WD. I was 8 when Dad bought it for my brother and me. Still have it. |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 8:01pm
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57 WD45 became mine 2 years or so ago, and officially mine when Grandpa passed away this October. Learned to use a foot clutch on it. Hand clutch was always VERY jumpy so I had to learn fast lol. ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 8:03pm
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A-C One-Ninety. ------------- Matt Folkers FOLKERS RESTORATION Restoring vintage things to last so the future can enjoy our past. |
Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 8:15pm
| Generic pedal tractor, 1/16 Allis Chalmers 190 and 1/12 Ford 8600 when I was a kid which eventually led me to my current farm toy collection. Later on a 1957 Cockshutt Black Hawk 40, then Grandpa's 1964 Series III D17, currently 1973 170. |
Posted By: Dave A
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 8:21pm
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WD my dad bought it with a cracked block and a bad mag. ------------- Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. Winston Churchill |
Posted By: AC8070
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 8:27pm
| I'm 16 instead of buying a truck i bought me a 210 |
Posted By: bwp
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 9:00pm
| My first tractor, D19 desiel with a loader, just bought it about three months ago. In the process of converting the loader from a pto pump to a front mounted crank driven pump. I know I need to take pictures and post them. I keep telling myself but I never do. |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 9:47pm
| 180 was my first. Traded it for a 200 factory cab with ac. Sold it for my now 7045PS. Then dad bought a 38' UC for me. I bet I never live to see it sold. I then bought BV's 7080 with long axles and spinout dauls. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 9:49pm
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A John Deere pedal tractor 620,I think.Parents were not going to spend time or money finding me an A/C pedal tractor.I used to pull around a piece of metal that used to attatch the sickle mower to the D-17.I called it my plow and would pull it back and forth in the driveway making straight little rows.How one of the hired hands did not run me over I will never know.
Recently bought a D-17 SerIV a few years ago.That is the first real tractor I personally owned ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 9:57pm
| My disease was started when I pulled my Dad's WD45 out of a fencerow that it had been sitting for seven years. He bought it new in 1954. After three hours of cleaning, and oiling it fired up. I was hooked. |
Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 10:13pm
| lonnie , mine was a 1938 B, also. I still have it though. Got some good rear rims for it last summer. It's on my list of restoration . |
Posted By: Steve M C/IL
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 10:19pm
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I first bought a 34 UC that sat in the neighbors pasture for years.Dad always said it was an Allis but it didn't look like one to me.It was(is) yellow.Used to see it every day on the school bus.When I graduated high school I bought it.Pulled a 4-14 trip plow for several years.Then came the WD45,220 and 8070.Got em all. |
Posted By: RichinWis
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 10:22pm
| The first one that I bought still is my 1958 D14, been an excellent tractor. I am the second owner of it. |
Posted By: Rayhowling
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 10:29pm
| I first learned to drive tractor on a Allis B that Dad bought used in the late 40's. He traded it on a 1955 CA and my brother and I were with him when he bought it. I still have the CA and use it. Will have to post some pictures of it. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 10:35pm
| D 19 gas got the ball rollin for me, Darrel |
Posted By: orangereborn
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 10:42pm
| Age 22 a WD45D. Found at a jockey yard with a broken #6 piston and like new tires . Rebuilt the engine, repainted and used it 10 years on my first farm as the primary tractor. Sold it and did not realize what I had until 30 years later. But there was life after-now have two. |
Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2010 at 10:59pm
| Bought my own first tractor this fall,AC model M crawler,I bought it cause' it was cheap and looks like a pretty nice machine,it's not in bad shape and I think I can make it run pretty easy,tracks are in good shape and it's just a nice looking tractor that I can haul around with my pickup. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 5:54am
Good choice ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
AC8070 wrote:Posted By: Bob-Maine
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 7:26am
| My 1941 B. Bought it about 1982 from an AC dealer in Auburn, Maine. I just looked for the receipt but did not find it. When the G is finished this winter, the B comes in for a "real" restoration. I need to do the head and a good paint job. Bob@allisdowneast |
Posted By: Hartland Farm
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 1:38pm
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A 1947 B And a 1945 C that my Dad gave me when he retired. Both have been in my family since new.
Joe (TN)
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Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 2:34pm
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My Grandfathers first tractor was a model 'E'
My Dads first tractor was a new 1949 WD
My first tractor for farming (1975) was a D-21 II.
------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 3:31pm
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48' B for me! A pretty rusty one wit' a stuck motor to!! Steve@B&B |
Posted By: ALinIL
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 4:39pm
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The first new tractor we got was a '52 JD "G". The next new was a '54 WD-45 Diesel.
Dad was a relatively new dealer(start-up in '53) and I just had to have one on the farm.
Got it with a 4-14 semi-mt slat bottom plow. - AL
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Posted By: Jim NEIN
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 4:54pm
| D14,sold it on auction when dad quit farming in 1968.Often wondered what happened to it.A fellow by the name of Carl Wagner bought it. |
Posted By: Dans 7080
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 5:22pm
| 1956 WD-45G NF with factory power steering |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 8:58pm
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First of my own, 1946 C. Learned how to drive on my grandad's 1950 C. I couldn't see getting anything else first. Now, maybe an unstyled WC(got a lead on one sitting in a fencerow). Neighbor down the road has an immaculate 5020 that may be for sale in a little while. See where this is heading?LOL! ------------- I didn't do it! It was a short, fat, tall, skinny guy that looked like me! |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 8:16am
| 1952 CA with SC blade and #8 Freeman loader |
Posted By: Good
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 10:24am
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48 WD my grandpa bought new. ------------- B212,716,two 314H's,WC,WD,D19,190XT |
Posted By: Reindeer
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 11:12am
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A JD 60 Row Crop. Bought it at an auction and drove it about 50 miles home, one winter evening. Pretty cool.
Later a WD and a D4 5T.
Now just a 170 Gas. ------------- |
Posted By: GADinMD
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 11:28am
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My brother and I had a 1938 AC-B that actually belonged to a neighbor. He was away most of the time, and came to Stamford (NY) about once a month. He didn't want the tractor to sit idle, so he asked us to use it and keep it busy. We agreed, and did just that. We made a few bucks plowing gardens and such, and had a great time tinkering and chasing around on the tractor before we had our drivers licenses. I wish I had the money to buy it when the owner passed away and the estate was liquidated. That was about 52 years ago. It had a cultivator, which we made into a center-mount snow plow, and a 2-way plow. I didn't use the left-hand plow very much, but it did add weight and balance the rear. We had a spring-tooth harrow, and I usually didn't bother to hook up the drawbar to use it. I just hooked a chain to the plow. I spent most of the time using the harrow with the front wheels waving in the wind and steering with the brakes. If I had ever caught one of my kids pulling that stunt today I would probably give them a set of brains real fast. I'm just lucky to have survived those days. ------------- -Gordon in Maryland |
Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 2:10pm
| 1970 Speedex Garden Tractor. After a couple more I was given a John Deere A from my uncle. Technically me and dad share the AC CA. |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 6:32pm
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when I moved to the suburbs (our first house), I got the bug and bought a good, used Massey MF12 garden tractor. Very well built units. The snow blower was a dream when living in the snowbelt, downwind of Lake Michigan. ------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: 620Doc
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 7:09pm
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Mine was a 1939 9N Ford that came with a 5 ft cycle mower. ------------- Every day is a holiday. Every meal is a banquet. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 7:26pm
| My first tractor was a 4020 JD pedal tractor I got for Christmas in 1970 and I got it for Christmas again in 2008 completely restored. My dad said the restoration cost much more than the original price. The first real tractor I bought was a 1957 D14. I wish I could get it back for christmas. |
Posted By: swit
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 5:44am
| 1947 B still have it still use it |
Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 5:49am
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1955 wd-45 was my Daughter-in-laws Grandpa's tractor. Had to keep it in the family. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: DouginIL
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 6:11am
| Charlie Tucker, I think I remember being involved with the aquisition of that 1940 JD A! Was that the one my neighbor had? And his brother in law thought we were trying to swipe. Ah, the good old days! LOL! My first owned tractor was a 1949 Case SC. Bought it for $100 in 1972. I used the belt pulley on it to run a old flat belt hammermill, grinding feed for feeder pigs. It was a good old tractor. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 9:17am
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Yep, Doug, that was the one. I remember him taking the front and you and I on the back of the loader to lift it off. Then you told me later "sure glad he didn't have ANOTHER heart attack" It was 80 degrees that spring day, warmest day of the year till that point. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |