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JohnDeereJimOhio

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I think it is interesting when dealing with tractor buffs. Most people are always helpful and very sincere and come from all walks of life... I was just wondering what some of your guys occupations are and how you got started into tractors?

Ill start I'm 25 started collecting when I was about 11. My grandfather was a dairy farmer, as well as my father until my parents got divorced and sold our farm.... Dad bought a John Deere 70 Diesel when I was born and I guess thats when I caught the bug..... Far as my occupation I teach elementary school... Lucky I have a woman that is a nurse and pays the tractor bills lol...Look forward to hearing your stories...
 
Grew up on a small farm in Michigan in the 50's and 60's. Always loved machinery of most any kind.

Retired now after 40+ years in various phases of electrical, electronic and electromechanical maintenance and repair.
 
I'm 41, a firefighter/paramedic, live right in the middle of the city, and own a 49 Farmall M.

My dad grew up on a farm, so I was around them some when I was a kid. I always like tractors. There is something about the 40s and 50s vintage that I love- the look and the sound, both when they're idling and when they're working. I am not loyal to just one brand. My kids like it...we don't use it for much. It's stored indoors and we use it to pull logs out of treelines and just putt around on it. I wish I was more mechanically inclined, but it was cheap and in good shape and is a conversation piece. You wouldn't believe how many people have stopped to look at it and talk about it when it's out. I am always looking for something to do with it...

Chuck
 


Always had a thing for tractors, when my parents bought our property I was 18 months old. They were combining the corn off the field, (the last time it would ever be planted). I think that's when it started. Then the next year my grandpa bought a Cockshutt 40 (he lived next door), then the following year the JD 3010. In 1996, when I was 13, my neighbor gave me a 1937 JD B. (My dad got the 3010 and Cockshutt in 1989 when my grandpa passed away). My Dad and I restored the B that year...then it snow balled.

Restored the Cockshutt later on, pretty much stuck with Cockshutt ever since. But I have Deeres, Cockshutts, an Oliver 77 and a Case DC...but no money to do anything with them for I work for the county as the Park Manager... My wife puts up with them at least...
 
I grew up on a dairy farm, but nobody could have been less interested in tractors than my dad. He hated mechanical things, and the only tractor we ever had was an 8N Ford, which I was never particularly attached to.

But I liked mechanical things, and for reasons unknown, I gravitated toward tractors, both collectable and for resale. Wife and I bought a farm in 1972 (when we were 24), and within a year, we had an 8N (for the mower), a McCormick W4 (for the rake) and a JD 420 with live PTO (for the baler). Started upgrading, then enjoyed auctions so much I started going to them and buying for resale if I could get a bargain. Guess I have owned about 50 over the years, and still have 7 or so.

As far as vocation, I used to be a loan officer for Production Credit Association (precursor of the Farm Credit System), and am now a lawyer.
 
My wife and I both grew up farming and we're still part time farmin. Im also a heavey equipment operator foreman. we do all kinds of dirtwork. I have the first tractor i ever drove its a 46 John Deere A and I have my dads 54 JD 70D along with his #30 JD combine. We use all of it every year farmin. Jim
 
I am a dentist. During collage and dental school, repair of old vehicles was a necessity. In the past I've wrenched old cars and trucks to keep em going. 15 years ago I moved to some rural acreage and a tractor was a necessity. Didn't know boo about em but I used the experience of keeping cars and trucks going in the 60's and 70's to keep the old tractors going. In the past 12 years I've acquired 11 vintage tractors, most of them workers. It's a challenge and a pleasure to bring old iron back to a useful life. All I know about old tractors and implements I've learned from this and a couple of other sites.
 
Grandparents sold there farm even before my dad was born, but they had a plot of land with a big garden, grapes fruit trees ect. When I was about 14 I got my first garden tractor, a 1976 sears, than a 1968 JD 112, which I still have both. Than at 14 started working on a horse farm, over time I bought a ford 4610,ford 1720, and a farmall H. My main source of income is landscaping. And after 24 years I'm still at/ work the farm with 3 horses left from 1989! It's been a great ride. Lol
 
Grew up on this small farm, no tractor. Everything done by hand. Push plow, push cultivator, hoe, hand cut corn and stacked it, etc. First job was to run a 641;pulled gang mowers, cycle-blade, pulled trailors, dragged logs. Finally got my own 641, scraped drive, mowed, etc. Now have Super 55, scrape blade, bush-hog, drag logs, etc.
Spent most of my life in sales. On the road, never time to really work with the machines. Beginning to try to find more time now that my son is interested in learning about tractors too.
Most of what I"ve learned came from the School of Hard Knocks and sites like this one. Thanks, ALL!
 
Born and raised on the farm and still farm the home place as well as some rented land. I'm a full time farmer and own tractors as a nessesity. I do have a 1930 "L" Case I bought on my uncles auction and a 1936 "D" John Deere I inherited from Pa. These two are for play however I do run the wet corn auger every fall with the "L".
 
I've been an automotive mechanic since I was 18. I worked in various capacities in automotive for 30 years (mechanic, supervisor and shop manager with over 30 mechanics and supporting staff) finally ended up in a Dodge dealership as a dealer mechanic for ten years. Then the position opened up at the college where I have taught for the last ten years and have been given the title of associate professor. I love teaching. Our program is nationally certified and I have my dream job. I got into tractors by helping an older farmer fix his tractors. I find it relaxing. I have three and restored two with the help on this board and other boards. It's developed into more than a hobby and I can't imagine why it took me so long to get my first one.
 
Found this sight about 10 to 12 years ago and decided - I like like these people!

Actually, grew up in a small farm town in central Illinois where Dad was about the only of my "kin" that didn't farm (Industrial Arts teacher). Have been a "civil" engineer in PeoRia, for the past 36 years and bought my uncle's Oliver 77 on his closing out sale, since I had used it several times on his farm. We bought some property in the 90's - SO I needed a Super 55 for maintenance back then.
eBay came along and bought an 88 for tractor pulling, a 77 Standard for ? and a Super 88 for tractor pulling again. Heck, even bought our daughter a John Deere A on my cousin's sale so she could have some fun!

Is there a cure for this - Or should I just pull the plug?
 
my father was a mechanic with his own shop. I started pumping gas at 5, lube jobs at 8 and basic mechanics at 10. when he died when i was 13, i worked summers for my uncle in asphalt paving and loved the construction equipment. bought my first cat bulldozer at 16. now have 3 cat machines. I am a retired licensed structural engineer.
 
My life story in 500 words or less! LOL
I grew up on a small farm in Michigan, so I guess that's where my love of old
tractors and trucks came from, they were part of my childhood.
After a 12 year stint in the service, I joined corporate America.
Climbing the ladder and chasing that almighty dollar.
At the risk of sounding cliche, somewhere along the line I grew up.
I hated the politics and backstabbing enough that I decided the money wasn't worth it.
I went in search of something more wholesome and honest. Back to the tractors.
Not only are the tractors reminiscent of my childhood days, but I find that most
people who are fans of the old iron tend to be far more honest, straight forward
and down to earth than the people I met in my other travels.
For the last 15 years or so I've work as a Network Administrator/Systems
Analyst in the finance industry and run my own computer repair business on the side.
Generally put in about 80 hours a week and get to drive tractors.
Almost sounds like my days on the farm! :lol:
 
I got 'into' tractors at the age of 2!I was 'driveing' Dad's 8n.(Mom has the pic to prove it!)I've had a serious tractor addiction ever since!
 
I grew up on a small farm in NE Iowa. Dad had junk equipment that we kept working. Ford 8n, John Deere's MT,B,A, Farmall M. I absolutely hated it and couldn't wait to leave and not have to mess with it ever again.

I went to Plumbing HVAC school. Worked my way through the apprenticeship & journeyman's programs and finally got my Master Plumbers license.

I never liked living in town so ended up on an acreage that of course needed a tractor, or 2 or 8 :)

The mechanical skills I learned working on old equipment now serve me well.

I currently have a Farmall Super H, 300, and Super C that have been restored and a Farmall SC,200, SH and John Deere 60 all in line to be restored.
 
Electrical engineer and co owner of company. I grew up with my father as a mechanic, we rented farms. I paid for college working as a mechanic. I work part time on farming about 200 acres. I do all the repairs myself and am restoring my dads tractors, a MH44 and Farmall H.
 
Occupation: carpenter.Always had a love affair with tractors from a young age when my father worked on a dairy farm for a few years.I loved it,he hated it.When the wife and I bought our 2 acres and built the house in the country the tractors showed up.It has become my hobby.I do buy ,sell and part to support the habit.She doesn't mind me having a few,sometimes to many,around.My two sons enjoy them as they don't know the place with them.

Vito
 
Grandpa was a dairy farmer-first with horses, then a Fordson, and finally a Ford 860. Not a big farm. My dad had the farming bug and after a stint in the Air Force as a plane mechanic, married and bought a hobby farm (all he could afford). Mechanics was what it was all about, and there's nothing we can't fix. We started with a 9N and recently graduated to a Ford 860. Dad's 89 now, and can't keep him off the tractor. I'm a maintenance tech for a management company that owns and operates office buildings and rental properties. Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing - I do it all...
 
Food service assistant director at a large hospital in GA. Been in the foodservice and culinary business almost 40 years. Grew up in Washtenaw County, MI not too far from Grandpa's farm where he did threshing and sawmill for a living with a Port Huron steam tractor, and later an Oil Pull, and then an Allis Chalmers model E. He was a mechanic too, and had to be. Well, I got his genes and have had the tractor bug for a long time and enjoy the greasy mechanical work. Currently own 6 of them, all hand crankers from the 1930s. All but one run and operate, and one's restored. I've got a 5-acre farm now, mostly hayfield.
 
I,m a month shy of 62 , grew up on and around farms , as a teen in mid-early '60,s I could recite models and hp of most all the new muscle tractors back then. Then graduated HS and got into auto mech and was a professional auto body/paint tech all my life. Now I,ve come complete circle. Sick of restoring cars and back to tractors. Mostly antique 2 cyl JD,s but the 4020,s , 1850,s , 1206,s , 6000 Fords , D21,s , MM G1000,s etc all still turn me on.A 6030 or 2255 would be on my Christmas list.
 
Got to working on tractors when got job at American Motors dealership. They also sold Ford tractors. They did more tractor work than car. This was in 1972. Did several different dealerships over next 20 years then did a stint with custom hay baler now have been working for oilwell drilling instrement company for last 10-12 years. Now collecting them and try to sell a few parts or whole units.
 
I started living here on the farm I live on when my parents brought me home from the hospital in 1951. I've only bought two tractors just to collect them. The rest are tractors I grew up with. This place has, lessee, 8 old tractors and seven of them run. The rest are newer ones used in the farming operation. My son and his wife now have a 9N that her uncle gave to her so they're just getting hooked. Jim
 
Raised on a mixed farm , cows to milk for cream, pigs to feed skim to,and laying hens. Started my own farm,when I truned 20, in 1981(on a rented place) and shipped milk ever since. My first tractor was a 430 CASE, wish I still had it. Right now I have around 12 tractors, some are just shed space eaters, others work the dairy farm. Spent today on a open 930CASE chisel ploughing some corn ground. Bruce
 
I didnt grow up on a farm just an acreage 6 acres to be exact. My dad worked a full time job plus him and a partner had a small salvage yard
thats were my brother and I learned most of our mechanic skills. At 19 I went to work for a machine shop and ended up working 20 years as a machinest and fabricator mostly for the railroad industry. My brother got into the cars and motorcycles me I liked the tractors. My Dad liked the tractors also so it was always our common grounds.Old tractors and machinery have a calming soothing affect on me, To me they are total relaxation.
Tony
 
former, repeat; former city boy here. retired from
TVA as manager of the high voltage transmission system control center, went back to work, retired as superintendent of operations for a local electric utility. bought small acreage 18 years ago, purchased a mf 240 for all around use. since then have owned or better put, they owned me, several older fords. currently down to one 2010 kubota. still raising hay and heck at age 65.
 
grew up on a small farm .
dad and gramps had some dump trucks back hoe and dozer .
was helping them when i could .
had gears in my head young .
i got dads first hoe small fergson ,
then a old dozer [ needs lots of tlc ] .
and a old chev dump truck same as the dozer .
i went to driving and running machines but was seasonal .
went to work in IH truck shop .
now lead hand in the shop for a large transport company .
i hate the new stuff , its all junk .
 
Grew up in my dad's tool & die shop. Became a tool & die guy (big surprise?). I had a buddy that was into old tractor's went to a MMOGTA show in Oakley Michigan, then bought my Farmall H, and later a 300U. Still have the H, but added a Kubota L3400 4x4 with all the goodies. Playing with this stuff is good theraphy....
 
Dad left me a 2N Ford when he died.
I switched the engine into an 8N cause it ran so good and I thought the 8n would be a lot better than the 2N. Not really.
So I sold them both off and bought my first Blue Ford. Though I do still have his 2N fenders on my tractor.
I never liked the sonovabitch and he never liked me either.
But he was pragmatic and would admit he likes my tractor a lot better than the one he gave me.
I grew up on Allis and Case but they were long gone when he died. And a 3 point tractor was better anyway.
I'm a carpenter. Like he was. But better as I have a better education and don't have 8 kids to feed so I can do better work.
Life is hard. It's just a little harder if you don't have a Blue Ford Tractor.

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Grew up on our 15 acre "stump ranch". Dad bought his Dad's 2N from his brother. I was nine. Shortly after we "borrowed" my other uncles OC-3. Used those two for stump pulling and some field work. Fast forward 35 years. After getting priced out of the local stock car racing circuit, I had summers free. Started helping neighbor with his hay baler. Enjoyed the mechanical challenge (kinda like the mad thrash between races on Saturday night). Now have six tractors of my own. All Farmall/IH. Also still use the 2N and the "borrowed" OC-3. I am the maintenance man at the local school, which gives me most of the summer for hay and tractors.
 
Well a lot comes into play on that one. Never lived on a farm as I grew up but lived in many areas where we where close to farms and hung out with farm kids often. When I was in grade school a teacher asked us what we wanted to do when we grew up and I said be a farmer and he said you will never have enough money to do that. My dad was a preacher so made very little $$. Well my dad bought 40 acres of land before he retired and I inherited it and I now farm it sort of as a hobby farm so yep needed tractors and have my grand fathers tractor and now that I had to retire and looked at the economy I figured tractors where the best thing to invest in
 
primarily at Wilson Hydro Plant in n. alabama, however the furthest east i worked was Chickamuga Hydro Plant in chattanogga, tn. also spent some time working in jackson, tn. at a high voltage electrical substation. younger man, younger days.
 
Grew up on a grain farm. Grandma sold eggs at the house and when she got a couple of crates of eggs she would take them to the store and trade them for things she needed. We had a Massy Harris 30, an Allis chalmers WC, and a Farmall Cub for light work. Became a Journeyman machine repairman machinist. Retired from General Motors and now have a small shop where I restore John Deere two cylinders.
 
me, i grew up around my grandfathers farm, helping out as soon as i could, started collecting the eggs with grandma as soon is i could be trusted not to break the eggs, [ i let grandma handle the mean hens lol,] rode the drawbar on a farmall C and M when i could [ soccer mommys gasp} when i got old enough, this means about age 9! i was shown by my grandpa how to run the "Little C" so i could drive it pulling a bale trailer in the field, had to have them help me turn the tractor around at the end of the field, and get it all lined back up right , just couldnt quite get it all right for awhile , this helped by freeing up my older cousine so he could help on that trailer [ the place never had a bale kicker] all hand done, both the farmalls were bought new by my grandpa, the M in '49 and the C in "52 i was allowed to run the M at around age 14 or 15,ive been around tractors all my life, kind of went a little left as an adult and started driving big trucks, [ well its still a 'tractor'] now i still drive and operate heavy equipment too, those are tractors of a different sort, still got a small hobby farm these days, and got a few old tractors too, and all of them work hard no trailer queens here
 
Grew up in the country, great-grandpas farm. Cousins had a farm the next mile over. General Motors was close by (Flint MI). Dad/uncle/grandpa all machinists in the shop too.

Started out designed and fabbing robotic assembly tooling for all OEMs (Big 3 and transplants). Still work in automotive as an engineer.

Always loved drag racing, and really anything fast, or that could made to be faster. Soon learned that drag cars got very expensive for only a little more speed increase.

Bought 30 acres and planted landscape trees (whips and seedlings) to sell as a little income, but to play around in the dirt too. I have as much fun working the trees with tractors and they are not tempermental like a drag car is. In the process of dealing on 47 more acres to expand on, if we can agree on the price.

Still have my great-grandpas 1946 AC WC and all his original equipment. Not in perfect shape as it was all he had.

Thats my story to date
Rick
 
Easy, retired Army. First got a tractor (always loved em) to keep the drive clear in the winter......started baling hay to feed a cow or two. Now have decided to restart the farm. Still love tractors......when they run....LOL

Rick
 
54 years old, started out on a tractor at the age of 3, steering it while my dad pitched bales off the trailer back in the early 60's on a dairy farm in South Dakota. Years later after a career as a mechanical engineer, I moved around the country a bit with my wife and wound up here in WA and grew some roots. Paid off the mortgage and now have 80+ tractors, we make a living selling veggies and I do custom tractor work. It is a good life.....
 
Grew up on a 7 acre place 20 miles west of Chicago. Dad had 2 cows, abot 10-20 hogs and chickens, rented some ground and worked for the Milwaukee railroad. Had a few old tractors, but I drove the F-20 and the JD unstyled A.
All the neighbors, large dairy farmers used Oliver 70"s. Those things looked like race cars to me and I loved how the tip-toe wheels would sparkle in the sun. Wish I had a quarte for all the times Mr. Franzen would grab me by the nape of my neck and say "I told you to stay off the traactor". Grew up and bought my own Olivers so I can sit on "em ANY time I want now!
Larry NEIL
 
I am 38 and a telephone repairman, I didn't grow up on a farm but my uncles lived close by and both had farms I helped out on through my early years at 15 started working on a beef/hog/crop farm about a mile down the road until I graduated from high school. I started working in a factory & milking on another farm part time as well as raising a few hogs and some corn with my brother we borrowed tractors and equipment from an uncle who's farm we worked until we could bye our own. We now have in order of purchase a case 930, international 460 w/ loader and case 1370,we each also inherited a farmall H when our uncle passed away. We still crop farm and have a small herd of cattle.
 
Retired Cable Maintenance Splicer for Ma Bell. Grew up on G-dad's farm, he was a vet. Worked on neighboring farms as a kid, went to work for the phone company, got an education on nuke subs in the Navy durung 'Nam, went back to work for Ma Bell, bought a farm, started building, and it got out of hand. Now I farm some 300 acres, an Angus herd, and have five tractors to play with.
 
Occupation----retired college provost with degrees in biology

Age---63

I grew up on a farm in middle TN. My dad and uncle were in partnership and raised beef cattle, hogs, tobacco, corn and small grain. They farmed approx. 500 acres and did custom hay baling, combining and corn picking.My cousins were in the farm equipment business one sold Oliver equipment and the other sold Allis Chalmers, New Holland and later David Brown.

I now hobby farm and collect tractors and toy equipment.
 
Jim........I'm a retired Boeing Flight Test Engineer (74-yo) and live on 5-acres of starvation grass where I raise sheep to train my Australian Shepherd dog for sheep trials against Border Collies. I have an eazy starting 6-volt 52-8N that I went 200-mi to buy for $2000 (cash) in 1990. I found Yesterdays Tractors board when I went searching for information about weird 1/2-leather/rubber rear axle seal. My profession is Electronics Engineer but I've always been mechanical minded. I find it amazing at the LACK of mechanical and electrical skills taught in the schools. .......the amazed Dell
 
Grew up on a tobacco farm in Middle Tn. Hated it. Plowed with mules, used a mule mower, chopped out a lot of corn and tobacco with a hoe. Our first tractor was a Ford Ferguson. Next was an 8N Ford. Got away from the farm. Started fooling with tractors when my son was young and developed an interest in them. He has since lost interest. I now have 6 tractors and 10 antique engines. Like the engines better. No tires, no batteries, easier to load and less storage space required. I do like to operate the tractors. 64 years old. Spent my working life in manufacturing as a member of the facilities department and running an electrical contracting business on the side wiring mostly new homes. Hundreds of them over 30 plus years with as many as 7 people working for me. Retired, love it, play in my shop, travel to a few shows, president of local tractor club, and like to fish at least once per week.
 
Age 69-retired (sort of) teacher-high school and college and also 15 years as atechnical writer for the country's largest manufacturer of air tools.

Tractors--fascinated by them from the moment I knew what they were. Spent lots of time on my grandparents' farm and there Ford 2N and even more time on my uncle's farm driving his Farmall M and Massey Harris 44. Lots of seat time and some days I think I still have a Farmall M attached to my butt.

So-always tractors and then when I got a job and was financially able, got some of my own. Still involved in our club and my son is getting our '48 JD A back together. Others waiting for their turn.
 
We had Aussies since 1978. Had to put down our last one in 2006. How do your Aussies do against the Border Collies?
 
I have a Super C and Super H too (among others.)
Of all of my tractors, if I could have only one, it would be my Super C.
 
PC Software consultant, MS Dynamics - SL (Formerly Solomon software).
Grew up in Franklin Square on Long Island in NY.
One of the many post WWII suburban developments.
In the olden days was all farm land that supplied NYC with fresh produce, milk and cheese. But that was way before my parents time. There were still farms around when I was young but they were small and I never lived close enough to get on work on them.
Grandparents came from Germany after WWI. My grandmother Louise won awards for fastest potato picker on LI I was told. She grew up on a small farm in Germany. Spent many hours working with her garden. She grew Zinnias along the front walk that were over 4-5 feet tall and tomatoes that were delicious. That is the closet I ever got to farming.

Me, I've always been mechanically inclined and should have been a engineer. While other kids
were busy playing sports I was in my parents garage taking apart appliances I picked out of the garbage, fixing bikes, building motorized bikes and graduated to cars.
Had boss at the station where I pumped gas who taught me about what he called the relationship btw "Form and Function". They designed things to work based on what their function was he said. They don't always get it right or think it thru to how we are going to fix it when it fails.
Basically I fix anything mechanical, appliances, some electronics. Not very good at carpentry.
We relocated post 911. Left NY, tried SC. Did not work out. Could not afford to move back to LI and really did not want to as it is overpopulated.
Wound up in the very southern part of Maine.
That is when I learned I needed a big machine.
My handle PeteTheRookie is derived from the fact that I never even had a ride on mower before I got my 4500TLB. 60, 70 and taller foot White pines started to fall in storms and "tree guys" wanted thousands of $$$ to drop and clear them.
Then a excavator wanted $6K to excavate for a garage. I scratched my head and said I can do this. Found "Hercules" and fell in love with the pure mechanics of it. Always hated points, condenser, coil, cap and rotor so the diesel is great. Cost less then what just the excavator was quoting and has done several thousand $$$ of work already and once the garage excavation is done will by over 10K.
Pete
 
I have been on the farm and farming all my life. I am 43 years old. I have many tractors for the farm and between my Dad and I we have 14 restored tractors.
The farm equip is JD, but the collector tractors are JD, IH, Farmall, Fordson, Ferguson, MM, Cockshut and Oliver.
 
I learned farming with both horses and tractors but really preferred tractors. Soloed on a WC Allis when I was 6 and could do everything, including plowing, at age 8. Fleet expanded to include a WD and later a D17. So, at times, we would have three tractors out working, sometimes in the same field. A '36 WC, a '49 WD and a '59 D17. Retired the horses in 1947. Gas was easy to get again. I remember during WWII (The Big One) when my grandfather would start cutting a big field of hay with the horses and several days later still be out there going around and around and we would be trying to keep up with a wagon and hayloader pulled by a tractor (me driving) as the hay was drying. Years later, Uncle Sam spent about a million dollars teaching me to fly airplanes and helicopters and after 52 years of doing that (still am) I find myself on the same farms I grew up on raising corn and soybeans. No more holsteins, thank you.
 
I'm 51 and have been an aircraft mechanic for 26 years. I grew up in a small town, moved to a big city and then out to the country years later. I was never around tractors or farming growing up nor was any of the family.

I made the mistake of going to a local antique tractor show in 1995 and it flung a cravin' on me. I bought my first tractor, a 1973 IH 574 in 1997 to use on the place, then bought my first antique tractor, a 1934 Case in 1999. I have a total of 8 now, mostly 20's and 30's wheatlands, and am always watching for the next one.
 
I'm a veterinarian. First started driving a John Deere 730 at age 12-13. Didn't really take a real interest in tractors until 3 years ago.
 
Heavy and light power and control systems on Candu nuclear reactors. Captain on the Emergency Reponse Team for three of ten years service. Top level Green Badge radiation protection qualified for 20 years. IBEW Interprovincial trade ticket.
Grew up on Two Cylinder Deeres. Dad still putters around farming with his collection and I have some here on my hobby farm.
 
I am a union millwright working for a company that designs, builds, and installs machinery for car (and tractor) plants, powerhouses, and any other manufacturing facilities.

I got interested in tractors growing up spending summers on my grandparents farm/orchard. It was never fun, and lots of hard work then, but now my tractor helps me relive those times. Kinda funny how that works!
 
Tractors are like people that are not alive, but still talk, act and function. 69 now and always favored mechanical things. Never made money at it. It was too much fun. Became electrician to make a living. Got 5 licenses by 40 years, had own business, had rental property, but tractors take the cake. Also motorcycles, cars, sno mobiles. Lawn equipment. Too old now fighting prostate cancer and other stuff, gotta rest. Then I can play with tractors(3)Farmall cubs. Dave who owes a lot to a lotta people. Thanks
 
Grandparents had a farm. Bought grandpa's WD after he passed away in the 90s. Work with computers for a living. In my mid-20s.
 
I grew up on our farm here in the foothills of NC. I work full time as a diesel tech and farm with my parents. I am the 4th generation on this farm. I still have my grandfathers tractors and equipment it seems away of keeping a piece of him alive as long as the old equipment is stiil running.
 
I am a 49 year old plumber. I grww up on a small 67 irrigated farm and my paternal grandparents farmed on rented farms. My grandad passed away when I was 10 with COPD and my dad 4 months later with cancer and brain tumor. I was lucky when my mom had the farm sale, alot of the stuff stayed within a mile from our farm which mom still owns and cash rents to this day. I now have been able to get some itmes back and curremtly own my dad and his dads 41 Farmall M, my dads 48 JD D, and my dads 65 Ford pickup. I also have my maternal grandads 49 Case D and have added several other tractors to this collection.
 
I grew up in town and was never around farming or tractors when i was a kid. I always was very interested in mechanical things and learning the skills to work on stuff (though my dad wasn't into it and didn't do it). I was also always interested in big machinery - be it tractors or heavy equipment.

First got to know tractors well when I worked for a friend's father on their grain farm at age 20 and I've been hooked ever since. I'm now 27 and make a living as a diesel mechanic wrenching on semis. I have a Ford 2N that I'm slowly but surely restoring and I bought the wife a Farmall Cub LoBoy for our last anniversary.
 
I've been on tractors since before I had teeth. My interest has always been out of necessity, I can't afford to have a tractor that don't do it's part. I was a part time cattle farmer until 12 years ago and now am full time.
 
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