WD staying in family!!
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Topic: WD staying in family!!
Posted By: Farmboy
Subject: WD staying in family!!
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 8:44pm
| I was able to buy my great grandpa's WD with 2 bottom mounted plow and 2 row cult. My grandma had gotten after my great grandpa had die about 24 years ago since her and my grandpa had a dairy farm. Its the tractor I grew up learning to drive on that and unload the chopper wagon. Grandpa died a few years ago and we lost grandma this past feb. My aunts and uncles are selling everything. Thanks to my mom, she took the tractor/plow/cult and my great grandpa's NH 66 baler as part of her inherntiance so I could have them. I just have to pay her back. I'll get pictures as soon as I can. |
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Posted By: TomYaz
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 8:51pm
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Thats great news! ------------- If its not an All-Crop, it all crap! |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 8:57pm
| Hey thats great news for ya! Congrats! |
Posted By: Farmboy
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 8:59pm
| Sometime too going to get a allcrop to go with it so I need some help in the furture Tom. What size do you think would be good? A 60 or a 66? |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:05pm
| Good for ya...enjoy... |
Posted By: Rfdeere
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:06pm
A WD will run either without a problem. ------------- Randy Freshour,Member Indiana AC Partners, http://www.rumelyallis.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.rumelyallis.com |
Farmboy wrote:Posted By: Farmboy
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:12pm
| Forgot to say too that great-grandpa bought all of this, the baler as well, new and have the origal manuals for the allis stuff. |
Posted By: brkfldj
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:16pm
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Consider yourself lucky and privileged. Puts a lump in my throat wishing I had realized the opportunity that was passing years ago. Jim
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Posted By: Farmboy
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:40pm
| Jim- Trust me I know. I'm going to sell my grandpa's MM ZT so I could afford it. Don't worry the ZT has been in parts my whole life. I was starting to have some panic attacks cause I was worryed that I wouldn't get it. |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:45pm
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Congratulations!!! You have your GREAT GRANDFATHER'S TRACTOR. Things like that should always stay in the family. Take good care of them. They have a special meaning to you. Good Luck! Bill Long |
Posted By: TomYaz
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:54pm
What he said...  ------------- If its not an All-Crop, it all crap! |
Posted By: WC7610
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:56pm
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Very cool. A lot of people have an antique tractor, but darn few have Great Grandpa's.
Congratulations on the tractor and also having a cool MOM! ------------- Thanks Most Bad Government has grown out of Too Much Government- Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: Rfdeere
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 10:00pm
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You should keep the MM as well, IMHO. ------------- Randy Freshour,Member Indiana AC Partners, http://www.rumelyallis.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.rumelyallis.com |
Posted By: David Gibson (OH)
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 10:02pm
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That's awsome! Congrats! ------------- David Gibson http://www.darkecountysteam.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.darkecountysteam.com 1956 WD45 |
Posted By: Farmboy
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 10:06pm
| Would like to but just don't have the room or money with the WD. Also have a '46 JD A. Plan on using the WD and A to farm 20 acrs with. |
Posted By: momedic
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 2:22am
| Thats awesome, & I thought getting my G-Pa's CCC chest was sentimental. Getting something he bought new & you have memories of is priceless. Hard to imagine that one day perhaps your grandkids will be getting it. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 3:03am
| you have 'one GREAT mom'!!! |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 7:12am
| And as special as it is now it will mean even more as the years go by, I have a B I bought from a good ol friend who is now in nursing home and that is special to me!! |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 7:32am
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Go give your mom a hug. She did good. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: j.w.freck
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 10:40pm
| farmboy...congrats.are in order.i acquired a wd-45 from the farms in indiana 3 years ago when my brother was killed on the farm.it is the tractor that i drove home from the dealer when i was a junior in high school in 1956.it has been on the farms since new.no amount of money could ever get that tractor.my daughter is willed the tractor when i am gone and she says she is going to put it in the ag.museum in boerne texas. |
Posted By: kschab92
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 11:06pm
| I myself got my great grandpa's wc for a graduation present last year. He bought the tractor new in 37. My great uncle painted it a few years back, but when I got it it didn't run. Now I'm in elbow deep restoring it and having a blast knowing how lucky I am. Be thankful and tell your mom thanks! |