Old Tractors anyone?

[jasonl]

Who here likes old tractors, trucks and model trains?
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[goatfarmer]

I have model trains, in HO. I also like old tractors, but more the lawn and garden variety.

 

[jasonl]

There were a few mowers there too

 

[sudsmaster]

Old tractors can be interesting, but like many I was never exposed to them in a rural setting so I'm not familiar with all the various types. I do stop to look at them when I see them on display (generally rusted relics) in order to see what kind of motor they have (generally four bangers).

Currently the closest thing I have to a tractor is a 5 HP rear-tine roto-tiller. This past month I've had to revive it - after wearing out my arm trying to pull start it, I cleaned out the carburetor and it runs fine again. Also stuck an inner tube inside one of the tubeless tires, which got some leaks in the sidewall and would go flat overnight. Just got through tilling the veggie garden and this weekend I'm planning on setting out the drip irrigation and planting the long-suffering starts. I do have a serrano pepper bush that survived the winter, as well as some sweet bell pepper plant that might also make it. And got some "volunteer" tomato plants going, as well as one squash plant of as yet undetermined variety.

I'd love to have a real tractor but the property here really isn't big enough for one, and the sunken pathway to the back "forty" is only 24" wide. The rototiller could be used to push or pull a load but it would be very slow going.

 

[hydralique]

Here's a tractor from a company better known for making cars: Porsche. During the '50s and into the early '60s Porsche made tractors in addition to cars. They were all diesels, but air-cooled of course, ranging from one to four cylinders. While the 924 may have been the first Porsche car to use a front mounted inline engine, it was certainly not the first Porsche vehicle to have those features.

 

[hydralique]

Another tractor from a company more famous here in the US for cars: Lamborghini. Ferruccio Lamborghini's farm equipment business made him a very wealthy man by the early '60s, wealthy enough to own Ferraris and Maseratis as road cars. He wasn't satisfied with their quality, and figured if he could make Italy's best tractors, he could also make Italy's best high-end GT cars. Many people think he succeeded with the early, front engined Lamborghinis. Once the company was forced to make exotic mid-engined sports cars to be seen as a leader in the late '60s and early '70s, Ferruccio lost interest and sold the car company. He was, after all, a tractor manufacturer at heart.

 

[tolivac]

You see older tractors out my way-mainly Fords and John Deeres-some of these are still in use but for mondane jobs such as running the bush hogs.I have a John Deere LA145 to mow the yard-just changed the oil in it-not so bad of a job.Now will need to get a grease gun and grease to grease the mower bearings and other zerk grease points.I can not picture a Lamborgini tractor pulling a bush hog!You definitly don't see Porsche or Lamborgini tractors in my area.When I used to be in South Dakota-Minneapolis Moline tractors were popular.

 

[syndets2000]

9N & a dead Deer

We have a 9N ford tractor for our place, along with a disc, a 2 row plow, boom, dump bucket, & grader blade- we get use out of all of the ..er...attachments, ( ? ), plus the bush hawg- it is a three point hitch- We have had it two years, & it is lots of fun! We had the use of an Economy Tractor from a friend, but the engine died this spring- we also have a Joan Deer, which is very tempermental, & that is why we leave it to sit in the barn ! So we resort to a 20 something Hechinger push jobber for the yard- I plan to get a few sheep next year- I hate cutting grass- watta waste a time!

 

[appliances4me]

1945 farmall

is what I learned to drive on lol. or was it a 54 either way it was ancient and I loved to mow, plow, or do whatever on it.

 

[syndets2000]

exception

Our 9N does not have a crevice attachment LOL

 

[sudsmaster]

Hydra,

Thanks for the photos of the Lamborghini and Porche tractors. They look really nice.

 

[a440]

Very cool stuff.
Although I am not "into it" I would love them to come and do some work in my yard!
Brent

 

[jasonl]

Yeah, I'm not a real tractor nerd like some of those guys are, but I like them and I can at least name the name brands (not the models).