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The Ford 8N 1949 model was the first tractor I learned to drive and work on at 6 years old.  It had the 8 foot spring harrow with 3 point hook up that dad had me use following the bigger tractor that was plowing the wheat stubble in the summer.  Then graduated to the bigger John Deeres later on to plow.  The Ford was the one tractor that wouls start in cold weather so it was used to pull off start the other equipment. 
 
yanmar

was nice today so poked around the used tractor dealers and found a little yanmar "1500"4X4 i'll check out and get if i like it;This model was made 1975-79 and has a 2cyl,15hp diesel engine with thermosyphon coolant flow-vertical twin cylinders perfect for this circulation method and no waterpump seal to leak.Tractor similar in size to the '61 farmall cub above in reply 34.
 
bought it

got the little yanmar-hasn't been delivered yet,but was fun to drive around the lot and it started pretty well for not having ran in weeks-the 2cyl diesel hammers into life like an old 2cyl lister brand engine.For a ~35yr old tractor,very little seems to be wrong though the plastic fan is crumbly from sunlite exposure-i wll have to adapt a fan or get a new original one.The charging system is motorcycle type PM magneto/regulator rectifier,about 15a i recon-may add a standard alty if this isn't enough for any added lights etc.
 
Here's my daughter on a Mont. Ward tractor on a farm we went to:

(Obviously too civilized to do most farm work, compared to the more heavier machinery I also got her to pose on, though "Industrial/Commrecial" it should live up to...!)

-- Dave

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Looks like the Montgomery Wards tractor the little girl is "riding"--the Earth is getting its revenge by slowly swallowing it!
New Wal-Mart-watched some of the construction going on-A John Deere 9502 tractor-beleive that was the model# was pulling a John Deere 1812 earthmover attachement-the tires on the tractor taller than a person.Ground shakes as it drives by.An excavator operator fills the earthmover attachment-they were simply using it as a giant wheelbarrow.One time the shovel operator fills the earthmover bowel too full-the hydraulics struggling to lift the bowel-so the shovel man has to take a few buckets out of the mover-now OK.Was neat to watch-will watch some more in the morning.Those machines sure would be fun to operate!The grass is getting tall by the roadside-suppose the New Holland and Woods will take care of it.
 
I don't have any, but enjoy looking at them.

One of my friends, however, is really into John Deere. He and his brother currently farm over 700 acres, and most of their equipment (including combine) is JD.

My sister's husband (farmer) has a Case-IH, JD, and Deutz-Allis. He doesn't have a combine though.
 
I missed that.....

Missed the Montgomery Ward badge on the riding lawnmower the first time through. Montgomery Ward must have been like a Sears. Wonder if MW had an automotive department like Sears did. Montgomery Ward came to the Greenville Mall here in South Carolina. I shopped there a few times, but I don't remember seeing appliances, lawnmowers, etc. Anyway....
 
after using the 1975 "ym1500d"tractor i bought a little,i noticed the main bearings in the engine were a little loose,so is currently apart for a repair-since the engine is apart,just about everything else has been checked/cleaned and repaired as needed(some rusty bearings were found in the front axle)a repaint will be done too-engine and chassis is a silvery green color that i haven;t beed able to find in a spray can so far,so may have to have a match mixed up and use an air sprayer.Unlike most gas 4-stroke vertical twins where the two pistons go up and down together,the diesel in the yanmar has the pistons moving in opposition-one cylinder firing right after the other then a pause as the engine rotates through to fire #1 cylinder again;sounds a lot like a 2cyl john deere but not as deep of sound.Engine is very overbuilt for 17hp at flywheel-built more like a stationary engine than an automotive type as found in newer small diesel tractors.Yanmar has also built a lot of "putt-putt"small marine diesels too.
 
Yanmar also built small diesel engines for those mobile electronic signs highway depts use to warn motorists with-the Yanmar motor runs a small generator in the base of the sign keeping batteries charged that make the sign work.Get close to one and you hear the Yanmar engine putt-putting away.The engine is very quiet-it runs at slow speeds.And the tiny Yanmar engines sips fuel-the sign can run for hours on end with just a couple gallons of fuel.
 
electric sign generator

lombardini is another brand of small diesel used in those moble signs-looked at one once and looked like there was a motorola automotive alternator belt driven from the lombardini.Besides the small "putt-putt"diesels for small boats,found out yanmar also makes much larger marine diesels as well.One diesel brand that has been out of buisiness for a while is Buda-these engines were found in a lot of applications from around 1935-1950 years including tractors,trucks/buses,and army generators and vehicles-a 1942 army generator i fixed once had a Buda engine
 
Buda Diesel engine-A man I knew that was in Viet Nam who serviced genrators for the military camps had one large Buda generator.The Viet Cong targeted the generators.He told me the poor Buda got a direct hit from a mortar shell and that was it.Buda engines were also common on construction equipment-the large air compressors used them a lot.Then Buda just disappeared.My friend from Viet Nam told me how they had to make head gaskets from cardboard or even paper plates becuase the real parts were impossible to get there.
 
Montgomery Ward

The photo of the child sitting on the MW riding mover. It says indistrial commercial. Is that valid claim for that product? It looks like a regular ole riding mower to me!
 

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