The Tractor Thread

While the JD MT was the first tractor I operated by myself doing field work for hours, the tractor I first operated was on my grandpas farm. It was a JD just like this one with the hand clutch. A small girl couldn't reach the foot clutch on most tractors, but pulling that big clutch lever was easy. I had to stand up as this girl demonstrates here.

 
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Faye Fox said:
I was posting another video that you might enjoy @Marie Mallory, and then discovered I had edited the one with the 10 old tractors and replaced it with one about a little girl driving a JD with a hand clutch. It reminded me of myself at that age. You might enjoy watching it. It is short.
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Ok , if my replies are short, it because I lean forward to type, nothing personal.
Yes I'd like to see the other video.
 
Faye Fox said:
While the JD MT was the first tractor I operated by myself doing field work for hours, the tractor I first operated was on my grandpas farm. It was a JD just like this one with the hand clutch. A small girl couldn't reach the foot clutch on most tractors, but pulling that big clutch lever was easy. I had to stand up as this girl demonstrates here.

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Definitely interesting video to me, made me think a lot, thought about why daddy never owned a tractor, plowed 100's acres with mules for grand daddy, then when doing it for his self at home, he did it with horses, maybe because of all us kids couldn't afford one is why. I'm sure like me he would have loved it. I noticed some of those had snow chains on them, and wondered why not put power steering on all of them? Mine is manual steering which is fine since I have power to turn it. One of my brothers Bobby just bought a bigger Massey Ferguson with power steering last year. Love the video and saw some that I haven't heard of before. "Thanks" Faye.
 
I don't know a thing about tractors but I 'm going to show y'all pictures of my son's tractor.

We replaced some gravel in the driveway, and the first picture is with the spreader thingy.


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The second one is him spreading something in the garden.

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He loves his tractor. :) It has a tiller, some kind of plow, and some kind of rake attachment.
 
Shirley Martin said:
I don't know a thing about tractors but I 'm going to show y'all pictures of my son's tractor.

We replaced some gravel in the driveway, and the first picture is with the spreader thingy.


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The second one is him spreading something in the garden.

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He loves his tractor. :) It has a tiller, some kind of plow, and some kind of rake attachment.
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Well, he is lucky I am not his mother or he would be watching me operate it. Have him show you the basic operations. Then, I bet you get the bug and may end up getting your own. You are a good mom to sacrifice your own personal enjoyment for your son. :ROFLMAO: Your place looks prime for some tractor action. ;)
 
My brother still has the 1947 2N Ford our dad bought used in 1951 after the work mare died and he sold the gelding. He still has the farm our paternal grandparents bought when they came thru Ellis Island. His son lives there, making him fourth generation on that farm.

I have a 1969 Ford 3000 that was doing the Bushogging here until it developed some injector issues after my husband passed. The neighbor has been bush hogging with his JD 3140 and bat wings. He can cut in less than an half the time it takes me. I am hoping I can pay him again this year. There’s about 21 acres of hills to Bushhog.

I also have a JD 4110 with a FEL that I love to pieces. I was doing all the yard mowing with that, but I found a yard service who will cut the four acres of yard at a reasonable cost and be done in an hour that takes me most of the day. Some of the yard has such an incIine I have to use 4-wheel drive if I don’t want to find myself in the cow pasture across the road.

I’m afraid the high heat/humidity of summer has caught up to me when it comes to sitting on the tractors for hours at a time.

I tried to post photos of the tractors but it tells me the images are too large even though I cropped them.
 
Connie Bennett said:
My brother still has the 1947 2N Ford our dad bought used in 1951 after the work mare died and he sold the gelding. He still has the farm our paternal grandparents bought when they came thru Ellis Island. His son lives there, making him fourth generation on that farm.

I have a 1969 Ford 3000 that was doing the Bushogging here until it developed some injector issues after my husband passed. The neighbor has been bush hogging with his JD 3140 and bat wings. He can cut in less than an half the time it takes me. I am hoping I can pay him again this year. There’s about 21 acres of hills to Bushhog.

I also have a JD 4110 with a FEL that I love to pieces. I was doing all the yard mowing with that, but I found a yard service who will cut the four acres of yard at a reasonable cost and be done in an hour that takes me most of the day. Some of the yard has such an incIine I have to use 4-wheel drive if I don’t want to find myself in the cow pasture across the road.

I’m afraid the high heat/humidity of summer has caught up to me when it comes to sitting on the tractors for hours at a time.

I tried to post photos of the tractors but it tells me the images are too large even though I cropped them.
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Hope the neighbor will be able to cut for you Connie, on the photos thing I have to resize mine to load here I just go to my library where photos are and change the size to 640 and then they load easy, I've saw where @John Brunner; told others to join imgur and it's free, and you can resize there. Marie and I are members there; but my laptop gives the option to resize in my library. Would love to see your Tractor photos. The heat is harder on us as we age, you have to definitely work, way slower and take more breaks.
 
@Jake Smith , I can’t find the foto of the 3000 that I want. This was in 2004, when we were cross-fencing this property. We bought the tractor at an estate auction in 2003. We are second owners on it. The original owner kept it in a machine shed.

My husband kept it in his workshop, where it still lives. It looks the same today, just needs the injectors cleaned, which my brother will do whenever he can get away. He’s a plumber in NE Ohio, so just popping in to my small farm in Middle Tennessee doesn’t happen. Which is why I hope my neighbor with the bat wings can cut again.

https://imgur.com/a/f6xM7LR
 
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And this is why I buy Land-O-Lakes butter.

“Buying Land O’Lakes butter directly supports over 1,000 dairy farmer-owners
, as the company is a farmer-owned cooperative, not a traditional corporation. Purchases help sustain American family farms, provide resources to rural communities, and fund initiatives for sustainable agriculture practices, ensuring income goes back to the farmers.
www.landolakes.com +5”
 
Connie Bennett said:
And this is why I buy Land-O-Lakes butter.

“Buying Land O’Lakes butter directly supports over 1,000 dairy farmer-owners
, as the company is a farmer-owned cooperative, not a traditional corporation. Purchases help sustain American family farms, provide resources to rural communities, and fund initiatives for sustainable agriculture practices, ensuring income goes back to the farmers.
www.landolakes.com +5”
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I got mad at them when they took the Indian girl off the package. So stupid when social warriors beat political correctness into the ground for nothing.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
I got mad at them when they took the Indian girl off the package. So stupid when social warriors beat political correctness into the ground for nothing.
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I forgot about them doing that🙁

Still - I was raised on a very small dairy farm. We struggled to where dad stopped dairying, leased our land to the Big Guns and fell back on his military machinist experience. He was a Master Machinist until his retirement.

Even though maternal lore has it that I carry Tuscarawas DNA, I will overlook the politics behind removing the Indian girl off the package, in lieu of doing my small part keeping a 100+ year old butter producer in business.

My brother still has our paternal grandparents farm and it is still leased to the same family, except a newer generation.
 
I got mad when they took Aunt Jemima off the molasses jar. Removing an American icon and a real person, that made her family proud, was removed because some pale skinned idiot was offended. :mad:

Being a tractor thread, I am concerned that if those idiots ever get back in power, they will find some offense with John Deere having a deer as an emblem. Wildlife racism! :sneaky:
 
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Connie Bennett said:
I forgot about them doing that🙁

Still - I was raised on a very small dairy farm. We struggled to where dad stopped dairying, leased our land to the Big Guns and fell back on his military machinist experience. He was a Master Machinist until his retirement.

Even though maternal lore has it that I carry Tuscarawas DNA, I will overlook the politics behind removing the Indian girl off the package, in lieu of doing my small part keeping a 100+ year old butter producer in business.

My brother still has our paternal grandparents farm and it is still leased to the same family, except a newer generation.
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There are lots of us "farm girls" on SOC. I was raised on a tobacco farm in south Georgia. We never had more than 4 or 5 cows that I recall, but we did have a mule, some pigs, goats, and horses. My dad was a "horse guy" and we had a lot of them over the years including a pinto pony and a Tennessee Walker.

We also had an old red Farmall tractor and a newer John Deere.
 
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