Oldest tractor in use

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Harvey 2

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• Feb 19, 2013

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I wood like two know who has the oldest tractor in use today. I don't mean the ones that do a parade or two or maybe a plow day.
I'm talking aboot the ones that earn their keep, doing chores on the farm or ranch.
Did you buy it new or used?

 

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rrlund

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• Feb 19, 2013

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1951 Oliver 77 that I use 7 days a week,365 days a year feeding cattle.
That makes it what,62 years old?

 

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Larry NEIL

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• Feb 19, 2013

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A 1954 Oliver 77. Use it to rake hay and pull wagons, although I occasionaly use my 1936 HP 70 to pull wagons, but just fer fun!
Both bought used.

 

Fawteen

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Downeast Maine

• Feb 19, 2013

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I don't know that it really meets your criteria, but my 1938 F14 does all the drawbar duty around here. Mostly hauling manure and firewood.

 

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B Dean

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• Feb 19, 2013

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Mine wont be the oldest.But I have a 1948 model M john deere ,that my dad bought used in 1965 15 days before i turned 3 years old.I can remember him bringing it home.Weve used it for tobacco garden cutting wood dad even plowed and work ground with it.I mostly use it on a finish mower and garden now.

 

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John B.

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• Feb 19, 2013

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I have an early Farmall H that I use with a belly mower to mow the road ditch and water way.

 

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caseyc

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• Feb 19, 2013

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My neighbor has a 1939 M farmall with a dual loader on it. Handles round bales all year round and moves snow all winter.

Casey in SD

 

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James Howell

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• Feb 19, 2013

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We use <a href="http://youtu.be/sbWw1_yOHUA">"Uncle Earl" our 39B to pull the hay rake</a>.

Tractor also gets a lot of <a href="http://youtu.be/-D_Relz0uD8">"flag duty"</a> on holidays.

Bought "Uncle Earl" as a used "project" tractor from a young man in Arkansas.

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No parades, shows, or plow days for our tractors; just good honest work.

 

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55deere70

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• Feb 19, 2013

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All our tractors are workers, the 49 B is the oldest.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 19, 2013

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'44 2N

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 19, 2013

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My '39 Allis "B" is the oldest and used mainly for cultivating.
My '40 Farmall "H" is used even more. Snowplowing in winter and I use the loader extensively for moving dirt, cars or loading scrap on trucks.

 

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merlynr

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• Feb 19, 2013

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I bought this H from my grandpa in 73 and is used for raking, mowing hay,running the manure spreader(I can reach the handles from the H and not the other tractors. I've had it longer than him now and he bought it new in 52.

 

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Charlie M

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• Feb 19, 2013

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I've got a 37 W30 that I play around with. Brakes don't work so I don't do a lot with it yet. I'm going to try it on my feed grinder this year. Next newer one is a 38 F14. I use it in the summer to rake hay. Sometimes I put it on the corn sheller or put on the cultivator.Its mechanically in good shape - just missing paint and decals. After that its a 42 A, 43 H and M and my new tractor is a 55 300U.All are in good shape mechanically but no paint job on anything. They all work my 20 acres at some point in the season.

 

Goose

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• Feb 19, 2013

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'52 H Farmall with a bucket loader. I'd love to restore it, but it doesn't stand still long enough. It earns its keep and then some.

 

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Animal

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• Feb 19, 2013

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36B John Deere spraying, raking hay, tedding.

 

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larrystinescorner

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• Feb 19, 2013

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This Oliver of my neighbors in PA gets used a lot too

 

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fixerupper

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• Feb 19, 2013

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'48 SC Case. It sees almost daily use in the summer pulling the rock wagon, or whatever. During the winter it is excersized maybe twice a month for something or the other. Jim

 

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Richard G.

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• Feb 19, 2013

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42 JD H gets a workout all summer cultivating and pulling the sorghum mill in the fall.
Richard in NW SC

 

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flying belgian

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• Feb 19, 2013

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1930 Case Model"L" Use it every fall on the wet corn auger. It is hard to start after it is warmed up so I start it in the morning and leave it run all day until I quit for the night. 8"X62ft. auger at a steep angle to reach top of holding bin makes the old "L" work pretty hard. Run it maybe half throttle. Pulls so hard it sounds like it is on a plow. Really love to hear that old girl run on that auger though. Seams to sound better after dark. Don't know why that would be. Bought it on my bachler uncles estate auction in about 1994.

 

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Harvey 2

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• Feb 19, 2013

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When I see a tractor or anything held up by concrete blocks I get scared, as the blocks will crumble before one can expect.
Other wise looks like the tractor is going to be good, if it don't fall on you when the blocks crumble.

 

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Case Nutty 1660

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• Feb 19, 2013

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this is my 48 Case "DC" with Duncan loader with a home made manbasket, all but the basket it's self is factory Duncan it always sees building work, tree trimming ect every year I had just finished repairing loose tin on our tall barn when I snapped this pic

 

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Bob Collins

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• Feb 19, 2013

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I still do a bit of disking and hay raking with my 1938 WC Allis Chalmers. She will 'fog' the mosquitoes at the same time.

 

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C. Amick

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• Feb 19, 2013

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Most of the tractors that I use are old ones, around 1950. I use the Farmall Super C for cultivating and pushing snow. I use the Case SC for plowing, disking, and running the rotary mower. I also have a Farmall Cub for with sickle bar mowing and corn planting.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 19, 2013

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oldest in use is my 49 vac case ..runs augers, hay tedder and rake,,just a good little tractor ..; mynewest is a 1970 case 1070 ...

 

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JDB

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• Feb 19, 2013

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Temperature and humidity changes most likely make it sound different. That and wind dying down. Train horns on the tracks a couple miles from my house always sound better on a calm cold night

 

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David G

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• Feb 19, 2013

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1950 Farmall H, use it to move wagons and rake hay.

 

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Paul from MI

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• Feb 19, 2013

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'41 John Deere A is on the manure loader and wood splitter, occasionally use my '37 John Deere B hauling wood. I use my '44 John Deere B and '48 John Deere D for all the field work, plowing, disking, planting, combining. The others go to tractor shows or parades.

 

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notjustair

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• Feb 19, 2013

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I have already been beat, but maybe not by daily use (I can't recall the year of Lund's Ollie). My loader tractor is a 1949 Farmall M. It gets used everyday. The old thing has never failed to start. A heat hauser might be nice but I can't bring myself to spend the money on myself. The closest I get is the cardboard over the radiator.

 

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Ralph Bauer

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• Feb 19, 2013

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Currently 1963 JD 5010-D, O.S. Bought at auction about 2 1/2 yrs ago. Running hydraulics off it, using it for disking and plowing. Also pull the Lions' Club float. And pulling my neighbor out on his property when he gets stuck in his pickup....LOL

Have a 1953 JD 70-LP that will be pulling rakes starting this summer. Bought it about a one year ago from an old farmer. He had bought it used as well.
Ralph in OK.

 

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big jt

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• Feb 20, 2013

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1950 JD A.

Use it at the local tractor show on a front mount wheel rake, raking out the straw stack.

Then in the fall it runs a 10 x 62 auger. That one opens up the governer. Actually have to choke back the doors on the wagons a little but not much.

Been the tractor on the standby generator ever since we had one in the 70's.

It sees the show but sure isn't a trailer queen.

 

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oldtanker

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• Feb 20, 2013

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I have 2 Frod 8N's both 48 models amd a Farmall M somewhere around 39 or 40.

Rick

 

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ericlb

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• Feb 20, 2013

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1948 farmall cub, and 1953 ford jubilee here, both in daily use, they look nice from 40 feet away, no show queens on this place

 

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wilson ind

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• Feb 20, 2013

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49 DC Case loader tractor has live hyd from case combine and powersteering from combine it has 2 hyd pumps between drive and mag

 

Blackhole49

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White Lake MI

• Feb 20, 2013

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If blocks stacked like that are going to crumble, then probably 50% of the structures in this country are coming down. With the 4x4s on top there is no danger except typing. And that can happen no matter what you use.

 

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W_B

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• Feb 20, 2013

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A 1941 Ford 9N. Bought used in 1992 with a mower for $2,500. Keep it hooked to a manure spreader and it gets used about every three days.

 

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wolfman

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• Feb 20, 2013

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Won't be the oldest, but have a 1952 Super C with fast hitch that is a portable hitch jack (the FH).In its day it cultivated many hundreds of acres of corn & mowed thousands of acres - prior to the haybine. Want to move wagons or implements around, its the best. In the 60s, mount mower in AM, mow hay. After that, drop mower and rake. after supper, mount cultivators and cult til midnight.Next morn, drop cults, mount mower and repeat.

 

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Dan T in MO

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• Feb 20, 2013

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Up until recently, we used our 9N fairly regularly for everything from plowing and tilling to pulling logs out of the woods. I need to replace the drag links on the 9N, but I now have a '47 Farmall H that does everything the 9N would do and more, and Dad got a Ford 2600 diesel. So the 9N is looking at retirement.

 

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Dan T in MO

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• Feb 21, 2013

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I got a bit scared there for a second. My house is set up on concrete blocks.