My future tractor collection

[morgan in ar]

I think it would be cool to have real life versions of all the tractors that I farmed the living room carpet with. Everything from about 1981.
A Deere 4440
An IH 1086
An Allis 7040
A Massey 1130
A Ford TW-20
A Case 1070
I've never ran any of these in real life. Tractors have always been smaller in my part of the country. What do you think?

 

[Steve Metcalfe]

I farmed my carpet with a Case 1070 myself

 

[Hoofer B]

My big tractor when I was a kid was a ford 8000 but never ran a real one. My fields were all real flat but ranged from hardwood to shag. I was a B T O and ran a lot of square feet

 

[Hoofer B]

My big tractor when I was a kid was a ford 8000 but never ran a real one. My fields were all real flat but ranged from hardwood to shag. I was a B T O and ran a lot of square feet

Sometimes I had to call Marty the neighbor kid/ custom guy to come in and help with his equipment when I was falling behind, or it was bedtime. Lol

 

[Janicholson]

Pot metal Hubley, and plastic 3.5 inch were the staples in our sand box. Jim

 

[Tgrasher]

I think all of us here try to relive the excitement we had as a kid driving our first tractor or if we were lucky enough, driving the new tractor dad bought. You've got a good list of tractors that anyone would like to give a "plow." Personally, I would like to drive some older ones like a 34 John Deere A or a Case Crossmotor, things that "real" men drove.

 

[Tony in SD]

Don’t think they make life size Tru-Scale equipment that I farmed the linoleum (too poor to have carpet).

 

[NY 986]

My big tractor when I was a kid was a ford 8000 but never ran a real one. My fields were all real flat but ranged from hardwood to shag. I was a B T O and ran a lot of square feet

Ford had the 1/12 scale tractors which were creative marketing by them. Biggest carpet farm tractor I had was an IH 1456 with ICC. The 7500 Ford TLB I had was just a little bigger than the 1456.

 

[flying belgian]

I started farming the floor with a M Farmall. Then when I was big enough to do some woodworking I made a 1030 Case, 4020 JD and a 4-wheel drive Versatile. I put duals on the 1030 and made a 12" field cultivator for it to pull. I farmed a quite a bit of floor. All hardwood so it was real easy to keep the rows straight.

 

[Not db4600]

Sometimes I had to call Marty the neighbor kid/ custom guy to come in and help with his equipment when I was falling behind, or it was bedtime. Lol

The 8000 I had experienced front end problems. The front left spindle wore through and the wheel falled off. Pa then got an 8600 which faired little better.

 

[moresmoke]

Most of the tractors I ended up with had 15000+ hours on them and had been in multiple accidents. A couple were passed down from my parents. The previous owners were mighty hard on equipment. I don’t think I could take running equipment like that today.

 

[randyrenfro7]

Dad had a SC Case parked close to the road. every pretty day when I got off the bus I started doing my farming chores. Must have work several thousand acres before I was allowed to start it. I have one now, just not the original that I truly love to hear run.

 

[centash]

Don’t think they make life size Tru-Scale equipment that I farmed the linoleum (too poor to have carpet).

That's called dryland farming.....lol!

 

[randyrenfro7]

Dad had a SC Case parked close to the road. every pretty day when I got off the bus I started doing my farming chores. Must have work several thousand acres before I was allowed to start it. I have one now, just not the original that I truly love to hear run.

The SC I have came from Ar. in the north west corner. I found it on CL and hauled it back to Al. John helped me with parts to get it running.

 

[DoubleR]

I think it would be cool to have real life versions of all the tractors that I farmed the living room carpet with. Everything from about 1981.
A Deere 4440
An IH 1086
An Allis 7040
A Massey 1130
A Ford TW-20
A Case 1070
I've never ran any of these in real life. Tractors have always been smaller in my part of the country. What do you think?

I had all 20 series Yellow stripe row crop Deere tractors and all the Deere equipment they sold back then and a few I-H pieces. They sure built that stuff allot better in the 50's than they do now. That stuff lasted through 6 kids. When dad had his auction in the early 70's the auctioneer went crazy when he saw the boxes full laying around, I think dad was just going to give it all away'. We about fell over when they sold that stuff and the prices it all brought.

 

[Ray,IN]

Apparently my mom saved everything. After she passed away at 99, one of my daughters found this in an old cardboard box under her bed. It's an old Fordson made of cast iron. If I remember, it was too heavy to play with anyway.

 

[NDIHC]

Apparently my mom saved everything. After she passed away at 99, one of my daughters found this in an old cardboard box under her bed. It's an old Fordson made of cast iron. If I remember, it was too heavy to play with anyway.
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Dad dug this one up with the grader blade when he was maintaining some gravel streets in town, probably on the 70s.

 

[jwal10]

Only toy tractor I had was a 656 Farmall with it's little grain wagon. Got them with a silver dollar my Grandpa gave me for my 7th birthday but I had polio so got it 6 mos later or so. I had a little brown steam shovel on rubber tracks with string cables and a tin dump truck, cab looked like a '58-59 Ford pickup that matched the steam shovel in size. Several kids in my class came up with them, they were used. I got polio at 7 so couldn't be very active and had to take 2-3 naps every day. Polio made me very tired so didn't do much carpet farming. Mom got me a small barn with farm animals and the farmer family, I could play with them in bed or propped up on the couch....James

 

[flying belgian]

Only share what you want but how does that work with polio? Do you have lifelong effects? I found out when we were in our 30s that my cousin same age had it as a child.. In our 30s I couldn't see any effects on him. He was a block layer all his life.

 

[jwal10]

Slowed growth, was always sickly. Always had a limp. Affected my left side more than right, had to wear leg brace longer on left. Left leg was shorter. I was in an iron lung for 14 days, nearly didn't make it to the hospital 60 miles away in Sheriffs car with lights and siren. I was blue and labored breathing. First polio relapse was as bad as polio. I was in hospital for months, couldn't lift head off pillow or roll over on my own. Lots of rehab to learn to walk again. 2 years before I could work, very light job running waterplant for the city. Never was able to work more than 4 hrs/day, always tired. Needed afternoon nap, still do. I had a second relapse at 53 1/2, not near as bad but work was just too much, made it to 55 and PERS retirement but it was very hard. By then I was supervisor, mostly paperwork and water ons and offs/meter rereads. I was in charge of waterplant but had an operator for 2 hours a day. I was on call for alarms and carried the pager so operator could come back into town to work with crew. I had a foreman in town to run the crew. I broke my leg and ankle real bad at 50 because polio had messed up the calcium in my bones. Screws and plates, never held so ended up having ankle joint removed and fused. Calcium deposits in inner ear, has caused problems with balance. I have lost all my upper teeth and lower molars because of calcium depletion, teeth didn't come in right, very porous and lots of breakdown in enamel at gumline....James