How many of you still use your old tractors?
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Topic: How many of you still use your old tractors?
Posted By: R.W
Subject: How many of you still use your old tractors?
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 4:32pm
How many of you use you old tractors in your opperation as in D series, W series, B's, C's and, CA's for daily or weekly use? Or they just there to play with?
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In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D
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Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 4:38pm
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So you don't want to know that I used my plain ole B to haul a load of manure just now. Started to pitch on another load but give out after about half a load. I plan on plowing for oats with a different B when it dries out some.
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Posted By: AMB(wcIL)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 5:22pm
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We still use our D15's to tedd and rake hay, run augers, D14 still rakes hay, The CA has the Herd seedder mounted on it to top dress clover on the wheat. So yes we still use our Old tractor's.
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Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 5:31pm
This year I pulled the 1937 WC out of retirement to tedder some hay. The Oliver has had carb problems and didn't get to work last year. As of this year both the Allis and Oliver are on standby. They both WILL see action raking and teddering this summer.
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1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500
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Posted By: Mark in Iowa
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 6:01pm
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'39 B for plowing, discing, planting, cultivating and digging potatoes.
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Posted By: cwhit
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 6:23pm
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All I have at my farm operation are old tractors. Some people like going to antique tractor shows, I just open my machine shed doors and look around..
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Posted By: RSponenberg
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 6:23pm
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2 WD45s and one CA are used all the time on my farm.They are my only tractors,and all I need.If my grandfather could make them do,then so can I. Lol
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Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 6:26pm
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Allis Chalmers Built them GOOD!!
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 6:41pm
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One WD 45 has a 80 inch blower on it. Gets used every time it snow. in the summer it can rest unless I need another tractor. WD45 with loader used at least once a week. It also has loader duty all summer. CA has Woods L306 on it hasn't been used since fall. Mows 15 acres a week in the summer. C has easy life. just used to move stuff around the yard for mowing . Has a Belly Blade on it for keeping road in shape during summer. I spread the work around I'm to lazy to change implements.
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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 6:55pm
I still use the WD to rake and pull hay loads and once in a while to grind feed and other small tasks. The C mows the yard. With gas prices high the past few years I don't use the D17 or D19 much anymore and I opt for the diesel 190 or the XT instead.
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Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 7:21pm
Dad and I have 4 17 IV's. We use a D17 IV to feed hay every day, D15 II to fix fence and rake hay, 175 to bale hay, D 17 to cut hay, D17 to ted hay, D17 to plant, 6080 for beans and brush hogging, 8050 for tillage.
My grandpas CA is the only thing that doesn't work on the farm any more. but it's Pretty.
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Posted By: MNLonnie
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:02pm
Only have old tractors, nothing else to use. 1954 is the newest.
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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
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Posted By: Harvey/pa
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:11pm
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Now you've done it, the girls are all pi$$ed off at being called old. I hope they start tomorrow! 7030, 175D, D17, WD-45, WD. I'm going out now to tell them how beautiful they are. LOL...Harvey
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Posted By: MI8050
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:14pm
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My only new tractor is an 04 Kubota, other than that it's a 53 Super M, 81 786 IH and 83 8050. Even my "newer ones" are starting to get old but the Kubota doesn't have the character yet of the 80's and older horses. Something about the sound of a 6 cylinder engine.....
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Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:17pm
D17 gets used every other day to grind feed with, everything else is used when needed which is frequently and to many to list. lol
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8070FWA,7080 BlackBelly, 7045,2 200s,D19,D17,G, WD,45,UC,7 AC mowers and lots more!
"IT TAKES 3 JD's TO OUT DO AN ALLIS, 2 TO MATCH IT IN THE FIELD AND 1 FOR PARTS!"
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Posted By: Tim-tn
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:17pm
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Two 19's used for plowing, discing, hay mowing and hauling. Both have engine upgrades and both do a great job. If it wasn't for old I couldn't do what I do. Also have 185, 200 and 210 and one more 19.
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Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:23pm
Uhh, what do you mean by "old" tractors? My newest tractor is a 185, 1977 model year and yes, I still use it. It seems to run like a new one so I don't think I will change that
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Posted By: junkman
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:27pm
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I'm another one running only old tractors. Can't afford any thing else. 1954 900 ford, 1939 H Farmall, 1949 super d2 Gibson, and the 1959 D17. Just wish it would dry up so they can be used.
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Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:31pm
D-21 to cultivate 400 acres in the spring, D-17iv diesel retired from row cultivating 600 acres of kidney beans each year now just runs the wood splitter, D-15 II 6' brush cutter, D-12 III 6' finishing mower, WD-45 with 80R mower for road ditches and hedges (LOL), H-3 misc dozer work. Not enough work for all the willing hands.
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Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:31pm
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My newest tractor is a 1977 7060, among my CA's WD's WD45's D17IV's and a D15 forklift most see regular use for one thing or another.
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Posted By: jb from md
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:37pm
We use our 45 nf with the sickle bar mower alot through the year and for pulling hay wagons. in the spring i use it to plow some gardens for some folks down the road. the 45 wf we use to rake hay and for the bush hog, and to pull 3 bottom plow. we dont use them as much as the bigger tractors but we use them a good bit (more then playing around)...Jb
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8050 FWA, 190XT, 185, Styled wc, Unstyled wc, (2)C, (2)WD45NF, WD45WF, WD,416h, 716h, 312h, 8070 pedal.
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Posted By: Brian NC
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 8:52pm
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Still use d17 IV during hay and when spreading chicken litter from poultry houses.Most used tractor is '64 ford 2000 that my grandfather purchased new. It was the only thing he ever bought brand new his entire life.I found the bill of sale with the original owner's manual after he died.It was puchased 40 years to the day he died.Purchased it on Dec. 7,1964 and he died Dec.7 2004.Needless to say it will never leave the farm if I can help it.D17 was purchased from aneighbor who bought it new. We have other newwer tractors but they just don't sound the same!!
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Posted By: MBwcIll
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 9:16pm
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We us the15's and the 14 a lot. During hay season ted and rake. During harvest they run the three short augers. It is easier to leave these at our farm sites and not have to drive a tractor etc. I spray fence rows and check fences with one. The CA, and three 15's go on tractor cruizes. We share ours with club members who don't have a tractor handy or ready to drive. The more they are used, the better, harder on stuff to set idle.
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Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 9:36pm
Those in regular use around here are a '52 WD in daily use (my newest tractor!!), A '50 WF used at least twice a week. A'39 'B' for mowing, a '46 'B' used for just about anything and last but not least, the '28 20-35 is quite often put to work in the field or on the belt.
All tractors are on original 6 volt systems with no problems. They work as good now as they did then!
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Posted By: GregLawlerMinn
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 9:38pm
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Have a 2X, 3X and a 22" 1X breaking plows (all SC) and a 2X 3PTH plow; a 14' and 6' disc, a 3pt 2 row corn/bean planter, 6' landscape rake, 6' brush hog, 5' box blade, dirt scoop, 6' snowblower, and a recently acquired 6' roto-tiller. Have a L306 under my CA for lawn mowing around the pond and the ditch banks. Also have a L59 Woods mower that I can mount on my D12 (or spare, tired CA to mow my trails). The winter keeps the D15 with bucket and D17 SIV busy with snow removal and the others get a rest (and/or come into the shop for maintenence/repairs/upgrades). The summer sees all my girls happy running the implements doing my food plots (and making new ones)...and doing the same for several neighbors and keeping the grass mowed and trails tidy. I loan out one of my D14's to a good neighbor for raking hay.
Believe the best tractor is one that works enough to keep them healthy. If I don't have enough work to do that, it is sold to someone who can provide some work for it. Now that I have a D17 SIV, I'm thinking my good running D17D will need more work than what it will get from me...so watch the classifieds as I may be posting it there in the future.
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Currently have: 1 D14 and a D15S2.
With new owners: 2Bs,9CAs,1WD,2 D12s,5D14s,3D15S2s, 2D17SIVs,D17D,1D19D;1 Unstyled WC
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Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 10:26pm
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D17 gets used pretty often, the older w series don't get used much.
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Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 10:51pm
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my newest is a 1961 D 17 . I've got a WD45 WD a WC I40 & the D17 that I use for most of the work around here. once in awhile i use one of the others for small chores. Don't do enough farming to use them all.
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Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 10:58pm
I still use a couple of CA's, aWD, a D14, D15 SII, D17 and D17 SIV diesels, D19TD, a 170D, 2 175D's, 190XT and an I-600 that I just worked pretty good today digging out a couple of massive tree stumps....my youngest is a '76.....might not be modern, but my overhead is darned low!
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Posted By: EDDIEBUCK
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 11:26pm
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A Super A,and an 801 Ford,plus a Troyblt Horse tiller was all my gardening equipment for the last few years.
Just a few weeks ago, and nothing short of a miracle,I was able to aquire the same D14 I drove brand new over fifty years, ago when I was a kid,plus the eight or ten foot Fordmac disk that I used on it to cut land with,way back then.A disk thats heavy enough,if you let it,its cutting to the axle.
The D14 orange as faded just a tad but uses absolutely no oil,but the PS oil kept the front wheels and pedistal wet all the time from leaking,which I fixed with a plug and a tube of silicone.
Also the hyd lift was pouring hyd oil into the transmission, at about two quarts per half day.If you turned the tractor off with the disk lifted,it would almost beat you to the ground,thats how bad it leaked.I was beginning to see why I got such a good deal.
Any way,after taking the lift housing off to check where the hyd oil was coming from,the lift cylinders O ring had a quarter inch chunk missing,and the rubber hose supply line had a couple of pin holes.No wonder it was blowing out oil.Fifty bucks plus shipping,,solved that problem,and will hopefully last as long as the first one did.
By then I'll be a hundred years old,and forgot what an O ring really is,but the one thing I won't forget ,is how the Good Lord managed to work things out, and put me back in the drivers seat, of that first Allis Chalmer I ever drove,a D14 with,you guessed it,POWER STEERING.I don't have much of an operation,but what little I do have,Allis is gunna be around to help do it.
One day I will tell you folks just how and why that miracle came to pass. eb
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Posted By: Dans 7080
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 2:54am
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63 D19 usually gets the log splitter, sprayer, spreading fertilizer, manure spreader, 13ft disc, baling, pulling wagons and other odd jobs, 59 D17 gets spraying, spreading fertilizer 11 or 13ft disc, pulling wagons, and other odd jobs. 56, and 2 55 WD45 just odd jobs and pulling. Most of it depends on where Im at and what I need and whats there to use.
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Posted By: cdreb
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 6:40am
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We use 2-190's, a 7060, and trying to get a 220 rebuilt to use. I bought a LT 70 Agco for planting and baling hay. Dad died and most is cash rented out.
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Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 7:29am
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The IB will be going into action soon pulling my Bolen's 4' finish mower around the property as soon as Spring shows up. (can't wait for either) I already broke my B with loader outta' moth balls and started straighting up the compost piles and using it around the property cleaning up Ole' man Winters rath around here. The 716H definately erned its keep this winter with its dozer plow keeping the driveway clear of 2 foot snow drifts and ice. That helped take the edge off the Winter months getting to use that tho. Just picked up a 42" snow blower attachment for it for next season to try. The RC and WC still need a little work on them yet before they're back in action. I'm sure I'll find some work for them to do. The G is in a million pieces in the basement under going a resto, and the C is waiting for its turn to come up on the resto block. Gonna be a while for that one tho! I keep the Orange busy round' here in the summertime thats for sure.....
mailto:Steve@B&B - Steve@B&B
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Posted By: MilesGray (CO/KS)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 8:04am
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I have been using mine for as long as I can remember, and my Mother has pictures from before that! Puting new rings in my '44 C this morning/afternoon/evening. I have 3 with mowers on them, but this one got used once too many times as an HD5 pulling brush according to Mariette!
And AMEN to that Bill!!
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Miles Gray (CO/KS)
5 1938 B's, 1940 B, 1944 WF C, 1948 NF C, Gleaner A, White Top Rotobaler, 1957 IH Golden Jubilee... I'm either a collector, or crazy!
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Posted By: allisorange
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 9:06am
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We use two D17s and a D14 in a hay and small grain operation.
John Carlson
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Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 10:54am
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My 1952 CA gets used every year from April - October using a Woods L-306 belly mower to mow about 3 acres including roadsides. It's not a parade tractor with shiny paint but it's still as functional as it was 59 years ago when it was new.
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Posted By: michaelwis
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 11:37am
WE use the young lady .. D15 Series 2...mainly in the feedlot as we have a loader on the front...... 6300 hours ... 50 yrs old ..motor never touched .....
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Posted By: Michael Crowe
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 12:37pm
I have a 51 WD nf with fps that will soon get a 445 fully hydraulic loader on it, 53WD that has a L306 belly mower on it, a 1956 WD45 with fps that has an 82S mower on it, a D19D with a AC 519 loader on it, and 7 other WD/WD45s that get hitched to various AC implements as needed to disc, dig post holes, brush hog. One day soon I hope to use the rake/tedder, baler to put up some small bales
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 12:46pm
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Whats old ?
1955 HD5G used regulary
1958 IH 460 Utility used regulary
1982 AC 715B used
1982 F/A FD5 now down for track work
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Posted By: Embellem
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 1:00pm
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WD plowed snow this winter and pulls a brush mower a few times in summer. CA with Woods mower cuts a couple of acres of the lawn every week or two in the summer. CA also does occasional odd jobs, like it pulled the WD into the barn when it broke down a few weeks ago.
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Posted By: Steve M C/IL
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 1:11pm
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220 & 8070 do the heavy lifting.WD45 does the planting,blading & bush hoggin.WD has the scoop and is used as needed.
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Posted By: BearcatnorthMN
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 5:46pm
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51 WD with loader moves snow in winter and brings round bales to horses. In summer it mows with 5' brush mower. Sometimes I just go for a ride in the pasture on nice days after work....
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Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 7:08pm
All my tractors are old and they all get used. Some just get used more often.
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'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
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Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 7:40pm
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ROger that Mr Bill. My 47C awaits with cultivators for the 2 acres of sweet corn I grow every year to give away to my friends. I cultivate everything twice, and need to get side dressers built and attached. My 49 WD got her tune up and oil n filter changed today. She backblades on road and ditch duty, mowes lawns and runway with a 7 foor mower, rakes, teds, pulls hay loads, runs the 3PH fert spreader, plants corn, etc. Oh yeah she discs and drags ground when I seed back a piece. My D17III trims fencerows and pastures and hauls hay loads up and out of my hilly fields. The D19 mows, bales and plants corn or runs the drill. My 190XT is not home yet from where she's been sitting for 20 years. I plan on taking a year to restore her. My CA has 3 acres a week mowing chores with the L306. I will soob get either a 175D, 185 or 7000 to join in on the fun. Oh yeah I forgot the 15 II...we are working on her over to my neighbors. Her job will be rakin, teddn, haulin hay.
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Posted By: Jack(Ky)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 8:38pm
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Had my 'ol 14 for 30 years now. I have done just about everything with it. Still pull 7' haybine and rake and bale some with it. Move hay all the time with it and have fed about every day this winter with it. Right now it needs cleaning up as it is covered with cow sh**.JP
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Posted By: Tom Miller (IA)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 8:43pm
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My 48' C is on mower duty w/the L59 Woods as it is cheaper to run than my dads zero turn. My 54' WD45 has loader duty all year. My 57' WD45D does what ever is asked of it.
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Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 11:07pm
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Usem for pleasure and a little work. Little plowing, raking hay, skidding logs, whatever I don't want to use my truck for. Depends on what needs done. I normally opt for the antiques. Takes longer and I enjoy the extra riding time
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Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 11:26pm
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Interesting responses. I've noticed that the guys who collect the older orange tractors sure use them a lot more than the collectors of the older "green stuff"! Most I know seem to just leave them parked in the shed until they take them out to a show. The orange ones seem to keep on working, even if semi-retired.
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2011 at 3:44am
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4 of my AC's are full timers still!
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Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2011 at 6:44am
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Still use my green ones :-D
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Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2011 at 7:35am
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most of the farmers around here used orange or reds ones when farming & buy a green one when they quit farming.
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2011 at 9:52am
I use the 7580 for heavy tillage work and the G for cultivating the other 11 get worked on toward restoration.
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Posted By: KenBWisc
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2011 at 11:27am
The '34 WC and '62 D-19 get used the least. Some harrowing and minor hauling with WC, deep snow push back with the D-19. Snow removal, loader work and sickle bar mowing with the WD. Weekly lawn mowing during summer with B and mounted Woods mower pulling a 60" offset. G is pretty much a sprayer tractor plus some sickle bar mowing. Did break the sod with the G and plow for the garden.
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'34 WC #629, '49 G, '49 B, '49 WD, '62 D-19, '38 All Crop 60 and still hunting!
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