Brothers working together!! 1st time in 43 years!!!!

The JD 4010 on the left was bought new in 1961 by my Grand Father. He kept the tractor until Dec. 1968. He Traded it in on the JD 4020 that is on the right. The two tractors where never on this farm at the same time. He drove the JD 4010 to town and drove the JD 4020 home.

It took me almost thirty years to find the JD 4010. I had the chance to buy it in 1979 but had just gotten out of the service and did not have the money then. It changed hands several times after that and ended up in North central Wisconsin. I found it just this last summer.

I had not used it for any thing yet until today. The silo at this farm is real hard to get a bigger tractor and wagon around to it. We often use a small tractor just to pull wagons up to the the blower. I was remembering how the narrow front JD 4010 work so well at doing this job. So I got it out and unloaded loads all day with it. Worked great. Wish Grand Dad was here to see it back.

It runs like a Swiss watch. The hour meter is only showing 5100 hours. It had 2900 when Grand Dad traded it in 1968. When I could have bought it the first time it only had 3600 hours on it. The guy I got it from had it since the early 1990s and he thinks the hour meter is the original. The hydraulics need some work on the various different valves and such but it is real tight other than that.

The reason Grand Dad traded is that he wanted a Power shift JD 4020. That JD 4020 is on its fourth hour meter. I have all of them. They add up to over 19,000 hours. The engine has been overhauled twice and the power shift once.

When he bought the JD 4010 he also got a 4-16 semi mount plow I still have that as well. Just thought you guys would like to see and read about these "Two brothers" LOL

Nice story. Its great you were able to stay on the trail.

that is great, bet your grandad is looking down on you with a big smile and proud

That s great! Not too many stories have happy endings such as that. If only tractors could talk, the things we would learn!

wisht my 4020 p-shift could be that trouble free ,, aint no way an old guy like him wouldlike totin a battery charger around ...

That's pretty cool. Knowing the hours on em too, that shot looks like something commonly seen in the 60's 70's, looks now as it did then. There is something about tractors, tools, implements and so on that have been in the family, you always want em back.

When he got the 4010, did he specify a narrow front ? Just curious as those became less common over the years.

My neighbor the farmer who has planted our ground for over 50 years,sold his chopper and chuck wagons a few years ago. Stopped chopping years back, and was only using a combine. Mostly a JD guy, but had some others over the years, darned fire I think did in his other ones later on, he had some good ones, I remember a nice round nose 300 case, TW series ford, and I thought a farmall too. Due to that loss its all JD in the barn now. Seeing similar equipment reminds me of those days. Back then, I think it was a 2 row chopper, and several of those chuck wagons, he had those concrete stave silos too. It seemed like it took forever to do all that chopping in the fall + dairy chores am/pm then working at night in the fields doing silage.

thats a great story,thanks for posting that!

Nice story....Think there's sumpin wrong with your camera though..Everything has an ugly green haze to it.......... :shock:

I have the same two models working for me. Got the 4020 powershift so my son could drive it when he was 14.

Great! I love this kind of stuff!

You small flesh wound you!

(quoted from post at 05:01:19 09/23/11) You small flesh wound you!

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what would that be??? A scrape? Don't get em in a wad, just kidding.

NICE! Beautiful shot of filling silo in the fall. There are very few sights and smells better than harvesting and storing corn silage.

That's pretty much a success story! It would be really interesting to know the steps you took to finally trace the tractor to North cental Wis. How did you go about finding it? My late father-in-law had an Int. H tractor that was sold at his sale. I've looked for years for it and it's just flat gone.

Very, very cool story. I doubt you will ever regret tracking down that tractor and bringing it back home.

Hopefully, you have a serial number or the tractor had some very distinguishing features that were not eliminated in a restoration. I would like to find my maternal grandfather's 3010 diesel but I think time is against me. I was born in 1963, the dealer that sold it new sold out in 1967 and grandpa died in 1969. I tried asking about it in the late 1970's and got no place. Grandmother had died in 1979 and was told any paperwork relative to the farm was gone a few years after grandpa died. I am down to hoping somebody hears about my inquiry at some point who would know the whereabouts of the tractor.
If anybody has an inkling that they want a family tractor they should go get the serial number plus some pictures ASAP so they have a clue when the day comes that they want to make a move. Time seems to move in a way that many years can go by before we actively think about something like that or are adequately prepared to make a move.

Great story and the photo makes me think of old advertising from back in the day. Iam fortunate to have my late father in laws John Deere M and my late fathers John Deere BR.Even though they are both passed on the iron is a great link to their existance.

The reason that I know it is my Grand Dad's is by serial number. I knew where it was after the local dealer sold it. Then it sold privately to another equipment dealer. The salesman there remembered the Town in Wisconsin it sold too. I then placed a classified add in a local paper looking for it. I ran the ad on and off for close to two years before I got an answer. Now this took lots longer than it sounds. I could not find the dealership it was sold to for over ten years. Then I had to track down the salesman as he had retired to Florida. I had a lot of luck in being able to find it.

If it was a more generic tractor like a IH model "H" or a Ford N series then it would be just about impossible. I have looked for the 1953 Ferguson 30 that my maternal Grand father owned, his only tractor he ever had. I have had zero luck finding it.

On the JD 4010 I have the original purchase order. I also have a detailed maintenance record. Starting in 1939 My Grand Father kept a record of every piece of equipment he owned. That record shows: when it was bought, The model, make, and serial number, Then the date and description of any repairs or update done. I have continued that after he passed on. I have a record of every piece of equipment I have ever owned or sold.

I'd say you got pretty lucky!

Rick

Great story. I have a unstyled G JD that I wish i could find just because my granddad drove it when he was a kid. We have the unstyled A that he drove. Its nice to hear stories like this with a good ending. Thanks for the posting and the pics.

I used to farm in far northwest Ill. and seeing those J D s really brings back great memories. You are lucky to find the 4010 as it seems about every farmer had one sometime in his life . Great pic of working tractors . Thank you , clint

hi clint how are doing? have you been getting any rain down your way?
if you have a big truck i"ll be glad to let you have some snow in a couple of months.
i"m going to dakota tomorrow for schrader"s fall auction.
for those of you who don"t know this area schrader"s sale is a social gathering as well as an auction. they have great burgers i"ll have a few don"t tell mrs 730