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How many of us are still using "antique" tctors to farm with?? I work in town and farm about 200 acres with older tractors and equipment.Also still mulboard plow ,disk and work the ground. No till is not used on my farm. Here is a list of some of my toys'
Oliver 70 with cultivators
oliver 88 77 and 1850
case dc {2} case sc. Case 40 and 30 loader tractors Case dc4 Case 730 Case 400 Case 300 Case730 and 970
IH consists of H M 300 400 450 560
Ford 860 and 960 What do you use???? Doug from Indiana
 
Well, my renter's 1975 850 Versatile in the previous post is WAY antique by most of the neighbors' standards!

My 8N Ford and two 4020's would certainly qualify, as well!
 
We use the old AC WD to manage about an acre garden and gather firewood sometimes... But not full blown farming anymore, by any means.
 
I still use a few antique tractors around the farm. Bush hogin, doin hay work, runnin the loading and unloading augers and few odd jobs like that. Mostly have large equipment doin the majority of the work but between us and our partner farmer we farm over 6000 acres. It would sure take a lot of 4020's and M's to farm that much.lol. I do really enjoy doing farm work with my older smaller tractors tho.
 
Yes,I do.SuperC,SuperH,M,SuperM.My 'new' tractors;706D,1256,826Hydro.Used to have an F-20,but I had to sell it. :(
 
9N, 8n, Farmall H, Allis WD, MF 65, and the new machine,,,, Ford 4000.

JD 30 combine, MH 35 combine, NI #7 corn picker, NI 323 corn picker, 2 old square balers, and everything is moldboard plowed. Planting with a IH 2 row and JD 4 row planter, IH 6" drill.

160-180 tillable depending on the rotation of crops.
 
I run the wet corn auger with my 1930 Case "L" My combine is a 1980 "750" Massey. I don't know if that is considered antique or not. Otherwise everything else is newer.
 
1941 AC "B" w/6' Woods belly mower mows 3 acre runway. 1947 AC "C" is the auger tractor, although the 1963 D15II(the dedicated side mounted sickle bar mower tractor)had to take over the new 10" auger. 1957 WD45 pulls the fert. wagon. 1965 4020D PS pulls a 14' disc and cultipacker. 1969 2520 D does the drilling and row crop work, although it might get to share the spraying with the newly acquired (rescued) Dad's original 1966 2510 G.
A modern climate controlled full power shift front wheel assist 42" dualed 200 plus HP tractor pulls the disc chisel, and occasionally the cultimulcher. And a modern climate controlled front wheel assist 90HP tractor is on the way to relieve the 4020.
 
I dont know if mine qualify as antique or not. My oldest are a pair of 7600 Fords. Ones about done with 15,400 hours on it. Gets hot if I do any serious work with it, but pulls a hay rake or square baler just fine all day long. The other one is actually one of my most reliable and strongest tractors. Put a turbo on it last year but other than that and a clutch it hasnt been touched inside, 6950 hours and it pulls a 15 foot backwing like a beast. Some of my equipment dates from the 50's-70's including wagons, square baler, NH automatic bale wagon, etc. Other tractors, a 5600 and 7610 Ford from the 80's along with a JD dozer, a 7610 Ford from the 90's along with a Case skid loader, and a New Holland TB110 tractor and NH backhoe from the mid 2000's.
 
1961 JD 4010D still does a lot of work, planting, cultivating, spraying. 1975 AC 7000 does most of the disking, 1977 JD 4430 pulls no till drill and a 1979 JD 4440 pulls field cultivator. 1947 IH "BN" does some hay raking, 1951 JD "B" mows some hay with #5 sickle. Also got a 1934 JD "A" but it doesn't do much besides pulling hay rides.
 
I farm 14 acres of coastal bermuda hay and a 1 acre garden with a 1962 Farmall 140 and an International 464 Diesel (mid seventies). I use the 140 for everything from cultivating to plowing (2-14" 2nd gear) to raking to tedding. The 140 doesn't have an hour meter, but one on the 464 has been broken at 15,299 for AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. It still runs great, and pulls a John Deere 336 baler all day long with a wagon behind. I also use a 1952 Cub for a few tasks, but your post specifically said "tractors", and I don't know if the Cub qualifies.

SF
 
48 M and 8N, mid 60's 1206 and a mid 70's TLB is what gets used here. Newest equipment is a late 80's round baler.

Rick
 
Ford 2N, AC WD (with WD45 engine), AC 190 XT gas. Looking to add JD 2040 and Two Cylinder and only use the AC190 when really needed due to high fuel consumption.
 
Did about 9000 bales with a 1970 IH 826 on the discbine, a 1963 JD 3010 on the square baler, a 1977 IH 574 RC on the rake and a 1973 IH 664 on the tedder. A 1975 JD 4030 is on the round baler. These are from 34 to 48 years old, so I guess they're antiques. Seem kinda new to me.
 
Have to be honest and say that I wished I could afford newer. Also that I don't do enough to really "farm".
Did 3,200 small square bales this year with a 336 Deer baler behind an 806 IH tractor. Raked all that hay with a MM hay rake behind a 1940 Farmall A. Swather was a 1091 Hesston (not really an antique but still almost 30 years old).
Use a JD A (1940) as my loader tractor for the hogs. A 12A new idea manure spreader.
 
I only farm a few acres, but use my 48 JD D, 44 JD B, & 41 JD A for all of it. I moldboard plow and fit the ground conventionally & plant with a JD Van Brunt 11 hole drill made about 1921. Harvesting is done with a 1940 Allis 60 combine pulled with the D.
 
Not for farm use but I use the 620 with Dual loader with pallet forks around the construction site. Also I use the 720 diesel for pulling my 10 ft. box scrapper around to do the finish grading on the acreage's we do.
 
My B unloading a silage wagon. So much easier to use than a new tractor! Vision is so much better from the tractor, no pto locks, no electronic pto switch, etc. Just a pleasure to use!
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We play pulling tractors with a WC Allis, 435 JD,Custom or a Simpson with a 6 cyl Dodge. building a 770 Oliver Diesel and a Allis D17 Diesel. Farm with a WD 45, 6060 AC, plus a 4040 JD,4010JD and a 480E Case backhoe. Have a B and C Allis, plus a 88 Oliver diesel,in the wings waiting repair! Also a New 4320 Compact JD with 4 wheel drive and a Air Conditioned Cab. The 4040 and the 6060 have Cabs also, we are ruined! We are no=tillers so it doesn't take much HP the 4320 Compact will easily pull a 6 row no-till planter. And the 6060 will handle the 10ft no-till drill, leaving the 4040 to do what tillage has to be done. Vic
 
I used to use the (restored)F-20 every chance I got-but "hard times" won(needed some "fast cash"):(I still use a 1960 Jd #70 corn planter and a 1965 Jd 45 combine..Still have a 1953 IH 55W hay baler,now only use it for "grins" once in a while:)
 
Depends on what you call 'old' doesn't it? The newest tractor I ever bought for the cow farm was a '68 656 in 1989? My newest now for the cabbage patch is a '72. So I guess I went backwards. Over the years either my father or me bought about 20 tractors, mostly gassers, and as far as I know, all but one or 2 are still in use by someone, doing something. Never was impressed by the diesels, but can't help but be impressed by a WD45. BTW, the corporate cigar farms around here still use highwheel Farmall and JD trikes from the 50's all season, and one argi biz place bought an AC D15 from an old timer before I could even drive over to see it.
 
don't think any of the modern tractor would look like much after 50 yrs , pops dc i bought from him has logged and plowed and disced planted , worst battle scar it has, is when my 11yr old son turned it completely over , 4020 is45 yrs old , . my 430 case is a 67,thats the new tractor .. lol,. also in the lineup is a sc , vac , 730 ,800 ,and a 1070.. the 4020 and the 1070 have enuf expensive modern bs complications , so why wouldi want a new tractor with cofusorized sh!ft 'n , or electric solenoid sh!t ,one blown fuse and you get to walk back from the back 40..honestly , i like the simplicity and reliability of the dry clutch Case 730 gasser widefront, its like driving around a 2 story house in the barnlot , but very nice inthe field, fuel useage is same as dc, but twice the gears, with extra power ..
 
Was hauling manure with a mid 60"s MF180, and a "49 Farmall C, today. Son was loading with a "49 JD B. A nice skid steer loader or a 4wd loader tractor would have been nice, but we were gitting it done!
 
btw , dont have anythin in service newr than 1986,haybuster drill. my massey 300combine will see action for the 25th season , 75 gleaner f wandered in here lookin for shelter serveral yrs back ,it shells corn planted by a moldified no till ihc 400cyclo planter built in 1973 ..artsway feed grinder keeps makin feed as good as it didin 1964 .same goes for my massey and new holland balers. , true i pull wrenches on them occassionaly because of wear and tear .. Your gonna need the wrenches to adjust and repair the new stuff, just like the old equipment . runnin proven 50 yr old equipment reminds me of my wonderful wife and also of GeorGe Jones singin " There's Nuthin Better , ONCE , You've Hadthe BEST..
 
Almost everyday I'm driving one of the old antiques doing something around the farm. The 'real' farming involves a few too many acres to be done with the antiques. I suppose I could farm a half section with the antiques but sometimes I feel a little too much like an antique to be able to run them for many hours at a time. Well, on second thought, the R might be able to pull the twelve row planter 3-4 MPH and, no, axe that idea. Spent too many hours sitting there freezing my butt planting with an A and a six row. I like the warm cab! Jim
 
From 1999 to 2008 helped my cousin no till 500 acres with ih 656, 886, 1066, 1466. We seldom had three tractors in the field at once. 656 was sprayer, 886 on corn planter, 1466 on bean drill. 1066 was used for spot tilling.
 
Dairy farm and crop 345 acres. Newest tractor is an '89, oldest (only one old enough to be 'antique') is a '53.
 
Do all my cultivating with a 1948 Allis G, do custom field mowing and tilling with a couple of Allis 175 diesels, one a '76 and the other a '73. Use a '57 Allis D17 diesel for plowing and disking, a '62 Allis D19 to pull my 9' chisel plow, a '70 Allis 190XT to run my Northwest rotovator and 15' tandem disc, a '66 Allis D15 Series II to pull my produce trailer out to the corner every day, plant with my '59 Allis D14, mark out rows with my '42 Allis C....and have about 60 more that just sit and watch....I guess all of them could be considered antiques....
 
There was a similar post on another forum, <a href="http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=using&th=25813">"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]Your Tractors at work[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"</a>, several days ago.

We still farm with antique tractors.
 
dont know if they qualify as antique, but ive sold all my newer tractors and just use 4 "N"s now,of course i'm not really farming anymore,just have about 25 acres or so that i havent planted back to grass.intended to plant that this fall,but its been so dry it would be a waste of money i think.
 

for what I do with them the antiques I have work just fine---no reason to make a payment on a new one. only newer one I have is a case 1070--Have a total of 2000 in it.
 
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