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Ford 850 | I used to borrow my father-in-law's tractor to mow our field. We had someone plow the driveway winters. When our regular plow guy started sending teenagers to do it, they'd get stuck or not show up. When they hit our favorite young birch tree, I had enough. I bought my own loader tractor, a '55 Ford 850. It had more power than the 1900 I'd used and I soon offered to mow a couple neighbor's fields. Its so satisying when a great old machine can still pays for itself. I got pretty good using the bucket to clear the driveway, too: could do it in under and hour. I recently fitted out my tractor with a plow-blower. It mounts on the loader and has a hydraulic squirrel cage type blower on the end of the plow. Its cut my snow removal time in half. Stephen Bushway, MA, entered 2006-01-07 My Email Address: Not Displayed |
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Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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