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anyone have any tractors or interest in tractors? my dad has a 1952 massey harris and i saw one for sale at a used implement dealer that i am kinda interested in;it is a quite small late '70s/early'80s era 4x4 ford "1100"this little tractor has a 0.7L 2 cyl diesel engine rated at 13hp and it weighs around 1250lb.Like other very small ford tractors of the era,it is made in japan.It's 4wd,small size and accesory loader bucket would be handy for clearing snow and other duties.besides i like all kinds of motor vehicles anyway :) Once to test a PTO generator,the generator owner left a '70s british David Brown tractor-it was weathered and beat up but ran good and was kinda cool.
 
I have an interest in tractors! I grew up on a farm and both my father and maternal grandfather had an interest in vintage John Deere, Oliver and IH. I have been to dozens of antique power shows and tractor pulls starting when I was about 8 years old. Much like my interest in vintage appliances, my interest in tractors is more related to the memories of the machines I experienced and used as a child than anything else. Some day when I have the time and money I would love to own a few John Deere 2-cylinder tractors (specifically a 60 and a 530 and MAYBE an R) and an Oliver Super 88.
 
2cy lJD

my dad also has a ~1956 JD"80"-it is not in running order though-it sat for a few years with no can on the pipe and it is locked up-it's at the shop of a tractor whiz for repair.I go to the local thresing bee every year since 1990-love looking at all the vintage and antique tractors, machinery, cars and trucks and sometimes wringer washers are on display(usually gas driven maytags)Lately vintage lawn tractors have started to be displayed at the threshing bee along with the farm tractors.
 
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I have an interest in old tractors, but don't really know that much about them except they are fun to drive. My family owned a construction business and our trucks were IH. There is still one in town that I see sometimes. It is driven by the grandson of the man that bought a lot of our equipment when we closed up shop. It has been completely restored and looks great!! I enjoyed a vintage ad for IH in one of Ultramatic's posts. [this post was last edited: 1/8/2013-04:02]
 
Just got a new tractor. Its a John Deere model 1023E. Three cylinder diesel. I got the 48" snowblower with a Curtis cab and engine heater for the cab. Love it for snowblowing which is its prime purpose. Can clear quite a bit of snow in no time. It is a little loud inside the cab so I wear headphones that I used when using the chainsaw. The heater is great. Can just wear pants sweatshirt and sneakers and still have to open one of the windows. Great machine.
Jon
 
Donalds Dad...

Has a 1955 Model 40 John Deere that he bought new,it runs great, but you really get a workout driving it..NO POWER STEERING!!!Here I am hauling wood to the shed.

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Seems like everyone likes tractors-machines that move the Earth.Most of what I see are the Roadside mower tractors-The State used to use John Deere tractors with Alamo "Interstater" flail mowers.Now its a contractor with New Hollands(pretty blue color)with a Woods Batwing mower.Just like watching these work.And not forget the bulldozers moving the earth.Another thing unusual-are the tobacco harvestor tractor attachments.Strange looking devices!Don't have enough property to have a real tractor-would be fun if I did!
 
I used to take my vintage motorcycles to the classic vehicle shows and was always fascinated by the field Marshall tractors that were started using a shotgun cartridge:

 
Little ones

I like the smaller garden tractors. I've got about a dozen or so Allis Chalmers/Simplicity tractors, from a couple of 1961 Allis Chalmers B1's, a Simplicity 2110 from 1968, an Allis Chalmers 712H from 1978, and a few more.

 

My moms family has been farmers their entire lives. They always used Oliver tractors, until they were navailable any more. Now they use White, and Ford.
 
Those Interested in Tractors:

Might like to know that Waterloo, Iowa - home of several members here, including Yours Truly - is home to John Deere.

My first contact with Waterloo, some years before I moved here, was with Deere's archivist, who was very helpful with a story I was doing on Henry Dreyfuss for Modernism Magazine.

There are a lot of tractor enthusiasts here, as well as enough Deere-themed merchandise to furnish an entire house. I'm serious - if you ever wanted John Deere sheets or placemats, this is The Place.
 
In our family tractors came in only one color...

Red! Mom came from a VT dairy farm and they had a big IH dealer in town, so big red Farmall tractors were always about the place. That is until cousins Clyde & Arthur retired and sold out to a NY lawyer/yuppie/flatlander. I have a pic somewhere of me at about age 5 "helping" Arthur pitch loose hay from a flat wagon onto the haymow conveyor. When we got a 9N Ford for our own small farm we painted some of the gray parts red, just to feel more home. 8N and 9N Fords are the VW of tractors: one of the first to come with 3 point hitch, wide front, run forever, and cheap n' easy to fix.

Have to admit that little Model 40 Deere sure is cute, norgeway! that's about the size of a 9N.
 
Porsche Tractors

The first front-engined vehicles to be marketed under the Porsche name were tractors made from 1950 to 1963 with 1,2,3 and 4 cylinder air cooled diesel engines. They were produced in Germany by independent companies who licensed the design from Porsche. I don't know if any were sold new in the US although a few have been brought over by enthusiasts.

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Lamborghini Tractors

Long before he became known for high-end GT cars, Ferruccio Lamborghini was one of Italy's largest manufacturers of farm implements, tractors in particular. It was through this that he could afford to buy himself Ferrari and Maserati cars that he felt weren't as refined as they should be. As a result, he invested a vast sum of money to build a new factory for his own cars, introduced in 1963. Ultimately he sold off all the businesses by the early '70s and retired to a vineyard.

 

Lamborghini tractors are still produced today, link is to their current website.

http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-EN/defaulten.html
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Takes me back...

I learnt to drive when I was 13 on old Fordson tractor after a while I graduated to the International Harvester now that was fun it had more gears and lights etc it was also roadworthy where the Fordson was not something to do with the brakes being shot ! I found the drainage ditch was quite good for a quick stop lol

Austin
 
Tractor Chic:

Here's Judy Garland driving an "Earthbuster" tractor in Summer Stock.

The tractor was actually a Ford 8N; my next-door neighbor owns one. He says it was a beast to drive, and he's a burly guy - that Judy may have been tougher than we all thought! She definitely wasn't faking it with the tractor being towed behind a camera truck - she's really driving the thing, and very nonchalantly, too.

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Garden tractors

I have a 1970 John Deere 112 garden tractor that my uncle bought new in 1970. I hope to treat it to a restoration soon. It has a snowblower and a plow attachment.

I also have a 1968 Cub Cadet model "60" rear engine riding mower that looks a bit like a yellow golf cart. I hope to resurrect that one as well.

My dad has a Cub Cadet 129 from about 1974. About the only thing on that tractor that isn't cast iron or steel is the seat upholstery, the steering wheel and the dash cowl. That one still cuts grass every week in the spring and summer.

We also had a 1976 Sears SS/18 with an Onan 18HP twin cylinder engine. I sold that one a couple of years back - what a beast that was!
 
18 hp onan twin

those older pre-Ca.1981 onan twins were all iron except the heads-quite heavy,though some have been used to power tiny homebuilt airplanes!apparently they are very adaptible to that purpose.The little ford 1100 i saw is gone from the lineup at the used implement store,but if it doesn't reappear equivilent japanese micro tractors are quite common-many as used units imported by the containerload from japan and sold by used tractor dealers.My lawn tractor is a 1995 MTD "general" with 11hp briggs single-kind of a cheapie,but has done ok so far-engine has sprung a minor oil leak i need to fix...
 
Onam gas motors were also used to power older military target drone planes--so sad that poor little motor gets shot up-then the wrecked drone plane abandoned in a desert!Find one in the New Mexico desert with a freind when I was a kid-was such a neat find!The poor thing was shot up and a twisted mangled peice of metal.But to us kids at that time--was a treasure find!along with radiosonde weather balloon instrument packages!You would call the phone# on the unit-but was so old they didn't want it back.My Dad found the remains of a very large plastic balloon in the desert--plastic raincoats,and such for a long time!
 
I had a chance to walk the line up of Rose Parade floats in the wee hours of the morning on New Years Day as they sat lined up waiting for the parade to begin. I was surprised to see a number vintage tractors there, so as a lover of all things vintage(especially things that move) I took a few photos. I don't know much about tractors, but these looked so nice I couldn't pass them up. I apologize for the poor lighting. My camera doesn't have a very strong flash.

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