what was your first tractor??

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

AC8070 wrote: I'm 16 instead of buying a truck i bought me a 210

A 1947 B And a 1945 C that my Dad gave me when he retired. Both have been in my family since new.

48' B for me! A pretty rusty one wit' a stuck motor to!!
Steve@B&B

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.

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!

48 WD my grandpa bought new.

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.

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.

Edited by Rick of HopeIN - 17 Dec 2010 at 6:33pm

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.

1955 wd-45 was my Daughter-in-laws Grandpa's tractor. Had to keep it in the family.