Farm art.

[Oliver-Tom]

I have 2 working tractors, and 2 farm art tractors that no longer run. Does anyone out there set up old machinery as yard art? The 2 tractors I have...a 1944 Oliver 70, and a 1938 McCormick Deering F-14. The Oliver looks like it just came in from the field. It is one I used to hay with in the '90's. The F-14 was my wife's great uncle's, and has been sitting in a field for 60 years before I hauled it home last week. Neat old pieces of history on our back lot now, with a McCormick No.6 hay mower and a P&O 2 way plow.

 

[Fawteen]

At 75, I'm over collecting money pits old tractors, but if I were to run across an Oliver 70 at the right price...

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Yeah.... everything I ain't got barn space for is "yard art".

Mike

 

[rrlund]

I guess you just reach a point in life when you don't have something to prove and want some dignity, or whatever the proper word is here, but no, I try to keep everything in the barns and not out in the yard. I don't like even leaving anything sitting out over night if I can help it. Everybody knows this is a farm, I don't need to remind anybody.

 

[showcrop]

At 75, I'm over collecting money pits old tractors, but if I were to run across an Oliver 70 at the right price...

That could describe my '46 70 with fresh motor and full sheet metal.

 

[SweetFeet]

I have 2 working tractors, and 2 farm art tractors that no longer run. Does anyone out there set up old machinery as yard art? The 2 tractors I have...a 1944 Oliver 70, and a 1938 McCormick Deering F-14. The Oliver looks like it just came in from the field. It is one I used to hay with in the '90's. The F-14 was my wife's great uncle's, and has been sitting in a field for 60 years before I hauled it home last week. Neat old pieces of history on our back lot now, with a McCormick No.6 hay mower and a P&O 2 way plow.

Yes. We placed a rusty hayloader in the yard to block seeing the LP tank when looking out the windows of the house.
And I put a small garden in the front part of the hay loader.

We have a rusty 1931 Farmall Regular that is yard art... but it runs great.
I wanted the rusty tractor... husband said, "Okay, as long as you don't mind that I get it running." It was a fun project!

 

[grandpa Love]

We have a couple yard art tractors. Nothing good left on them, hate to haul them off for scrap. They look good in the yard

 

[shaun wallace]

My yard art consists JD "D" , 2 JD "60"s , JD "B", Slant dash JD"A" and 580 CK Case TLB.

 

[Jim Hanson]

So ...let me get this straight...if i were to drag my fence row junk out front it becomes art??

 

[stoughtonfarmboy]

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

 

[RedMF40]

They can look good in the right place. Before I got rid of my McCormick-Deering project tractor all on steel, I’d considered parking it near the end of my driveway as a display piece. It was too big, would have looked out of place. Needed a few more open acres to relax in. Someone bought it for yard art. Oddly enough, they’re in a very secluded location where almost no one will see it so it’s more of a conversation piece.

 

[RobCons]

No tractor but we do have a horse drawn hay rake.

 

[Keith True]

There is a farm here that has a Fordson tractor on one side of the driveway,and a John Deere G on the other.The womans father had bought the Fordson in 1936,fixed it,and as he put it,used it until he got a real tractor.That is the G sitting 25 feet across the driveway.Another guy has a Fordson on his lawn,he found it in the woods when he bought his property in the 80's.Every few years it gets a fresh coat of gray and red paint.Something VERY popular around here are horse drawn mowing machines with mailboxes mounted on them.I had an AC crawler with a big hole in the block out front for my mailbox holder.It was the smallest AC crawler I'd ever seen,and I didn't even know what model it was.Somebody knocked on the door one day,and offered a huge amount of money for it.He wanted the undercarriage from it.There are old single row potato diggers on lawns around town,some drop spreaders being used as raised beds to grow things.One family uses an old hay loader to block headlights from glaring in their windows as the cars come around the corner.

 

[flying belgian]

There is a farm here that has a Fordson tractor on one side of the driveway,and a John Deere G on the other.The womans father had bought the Fordson in 1936,fixed it,and as he put it,used it until he got a real tractor.That is the G sitting 25 feet across the driveway.Another guy has a Fordson on his lawn,he found it in the woods when he bought his property in the 80's.Every few years it gets a fresh coat of gray and red paint.Something VERY popular around here are horse drawn mowing machines with mailboxes mounted on them.I had an AC crawler with a big hole in the block out front for my mailbox holder.It was the smallest AC crawler I'd ever seen,and I didn't even know what model it was.Somebody knocked on the door one day,and offered a huge amount of money for it.He wanted the undercarriage from it.There are old single row potato diggers on lawns around town,some drop spreaders being used as raised beds to grow things.One family uses an old hay loader to block headlights from glaring in their windows as the cars come around the corner.

We have to use approved posts for our mailbox posts. This spring a drunk kid hit my 3" decorative steel post. went off road and flipped car end over end. He didn't get hurt and neither did my post. just pushed it over a little bit. But the county said hu ah, can't use it. I put in a cedar post approved by county.

 

[Keith True]

We just have to use posts that can break off,or use something that cantilevers out to suspend the box.My box was a couple of feet off the road,but mounted on a pole bolted to the crawler.Machine was a couple more feet behind the box.Big tree there too,you would have to go through that to hit the tractor.The mowing machines are all facing inwards,with the wheels closest to the road.They extend the seat spring,or bracket,and hang the mailbox from it.The actual machine is quite a ways off the road.The snowplow wings rarely damage those boxes.My neighbor has a box mounted in a big clamshell bucket.On the approach all you can see is the box,because there is a huge boulder next to it.The box swings away if it gets hit.The post office sets the specs for placement,but if it isn't a problem for anybody nothing gets said.The big thing in the last 20 years here are granite posts.They mill your number and street name on them too.They snap off pretty easy though.My wife backed into one and snapped it with her PT Cruiser,and it cracked a reflector on the back of her car.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

We have to use approved posts for our mailbox posts. This spring a drunk kid hit my 3" decorative steel post. went off road and flipped car end over end. He didn't get hurt and neither did my post. just pushed it over a little bit. But the county said hu ah, can't use it. I put in a cedar post approved by county.

Don't you love it when they collect taxes from you and tell you everything you can and cant do. Years ago my father had an old Corvair van up back that couldn't be seen from the road. He used it to keep his garden tools and chemicals in. The city made him get rid of it or they were going to fine him for every day it stayed. Mind you this is out in the outskirts where there is a lot of trees and small farms. A-holes is what they are.

 

[rrlund]

Don't you love it when they collect taxes from you and tell you everything you can and cant do. Years ago my father had an old Corvair van up back that couldn't be seen from the road. He used it to keep his garden tools and chemicals in. The city made him get rid of it or they were going to fine him for every day it stayed. Mind you this is out in the outskirts where there is a lot of trees and small farms. A-holes is what they are.

You mean like how local lynch mobs tell you that you can't lease for wind mills or solar panels?

 

[flying belgian]

We just have to use posts that can break off,or use something that cantilevers out to suspend the box.My box was a couple of feet off the road,but mounted on a pole bolted to the crawler.Machine was a couple more feet behind the box.Big tree there too,you would have to go through that to hit the tractor.The mowing machines are all facing inwards,with the wheels closest to the road.They extend the seat spring,or bracket,and hang the mailbox from it.The actual machine is quite a ways off the road.The snowplow wings rarely damage those boxes.My neighbor has a box mounted in a big clamshell bucket.On the approach all you can see is the box,because there is a huge boulder next to it.The box swings away if it gets hit.The post office sets the specs for placement,but if it isn't a problem for anybody nothing gets said.The big thing in the last 20 years here are granite posts.They mill your number and street name on them too.They snap off pretty easy though.My wife backed into one and snapped it with her PT Cruiser,and it cracked a reflector on the back of her car.

That’s fine. We just can’t do that here in Nicollet county mn.

 

[ufdaland]

Can't say I have yard art but maybe you could call it wall art . I cut off one side of a motor home, a 1 1/2 ton Nissan tow truck, a1988 Alfa Spider and a Subaru Baha and hung them on walls inside my 90 foot shop.