red vs green

The other reason I can't lean green is the for the following story:

When I grew up here in Southern Wisconsin, I always remember the neighbor plowing down the 8 acre field across the road on a JD 60. That tractor pulled a 3-16 plow all day and never hicupped...but I never will forget the front end of that Deere rising away from the earth and then falling back down everytime one of those big jugs on it fired.

A few years after that the land was leased to another farmer who ran all Farmall's. A Super M on that same piece of dirt would pull 3-16 just as smooth as any tractor could. It made that JD 60 look like a ride at the county fair the way the front end use to climb into the sky and then back down again. It would have wore me out to sit on that JD all day!

Funny lookin' back on it now...

Mark

Thats just my 2cents. Just my opinion

For that reason, my father refused to own a piece of JD machinery. We owned just about everything but. I did own a JD 105 combine once. I said I made two mistakes with that combine. The first was when I bought it, the second was when it got on fire, I put the fire out.

Like they say, differences of opinion are what makes horse races.

but the price was right and it looked cool, maybe it will be worth something someday,, I was looking at my "fleet" a while back and it hit me there were IH and FORD all over the place,, the JD stays in the barn and once in a while it comes out to look at,, the IH and the Fords work everyday,,they may be older but they run and work good,my output for today,pat

The old Farmalls are mostly still working.

It has to be those old two cylinder tractors, I drove one once for half a day. I can understand a farmer putting in long hours on one being a bit short tempered, perhaps not as socialable as most folks. Then it could be, they pay quite a bit more money for tractors, not one damn bit better tractors than the pack.

Talked to an ol' boy last fall that's in the business of rebuilding Internationals and Farmalls. He told me one of my cousins that'd bought two 1066s from him over the years, had "gone green" and bought a late model JD 4x4.

After I heckled him about that a bit, he pointed out that green is the color of envy.

Nothing wrong with that, because without such wide interest, we'd all be worse off. Know lots of folks who have never done anything more useful with an old tractor, than buy it, restore it and show it off. But in my opinion, tractors are tractors, regardless of the level of involvement of the owner. Worst offenders in the puffy-chest department in my experience, are those who BOUGHT restored JDs, spend too much time braggin' on 'em and use them for nothing but a trinket.

An uncle who farmed for over 40 years with Farmalls and Internationals, was surrounded by green equipment (JD dealer right up the road). He owned JD balers, a JD combine and some other green implements...but the power was all red, except for a brief flirtation with a 2010 w/industrial loader.

He used to delight in un-sticking a green tractor too, especially with his WFE 560 gasser. Kinda miss the sound of a 2-lunger off in the distance in the summer, but not enough to actually own one. ;O)

A buddy has several self-restored JD "parade tractors": A, B, L and a couple whose model I've forgotten. He did most of his actual farm work with a 2000 series JD diesel, a little 70s-vintage Ford 3000, Oliver Super 55 and a ratty old Farmall M.

Lets the internal puffiness right out, replaces it with some external puffiness, which fortunately is always RED. ;O)

Also it miffs them that I can build a tractor bigger and better (I update them too) than theirs from a rustbucket found on a fencerow for thousands less than what they spent on their new modern green plastic and metal contraptions.

No plastic or flimsy sheetmetal on mine!