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Mark W.

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What is the one piece of equipment, or tractor, that you would never get rid of? Or one you did and really regret. For me, it would be my Dad's IH 766 Diesel. It is still used on his farm and I hope to never see it go.
 
730 new diesel wide front dad and I farmed with- also 4030 John Deere Diesel I bought new which my son and father drove home for me.
 
Well.............I've gotten rid of two Oliver Super 55s. Don't intend to get rid of the one we have now. Got plans to retire some day and keep that around to run a brush hog,plow some snow,work the garden,haul wood. If anything,I might consider buying another one or a 550 to go with it.
 
Dad's 4010 diesel. If and when the day comes that the place has to be sold hopefully the 4010 plus the Oliver 88 and Farmall M are coming with me, too.
 
I guess it will be the Massey 202 that me and my 11 year old grandson are in the process of rebuilding. It'll be his when we get it running. He's done a lot of the work taking it apart with my direction and he'll do a lot putting it back together. I hope some day after I'm gone he'll look at it and be able to say it's the first tractor me and grandpa worked on together. Now we're not restoring it, it was locked up from water in the cylinders so we're rebuilding the engine then gonna put the loader back on it for now. Keith
 
I've had this discussion with couple friends of mine. I have a J.D. 3020 and a Case 1840. BOTH are AWESOME.. and If I had to give one up It would be a tough decision but the 3020 does more around my place than the 1840. Cant hay with the case AND i can still grade and move snow with the 3020. But hopefully wont have to make that decision for awhile.
 
Will probably keep my Oliver 550 diesel for the duration. Have a bigger Kubota now, and a JD "compact utility", but as Mrs. (WA) and I get older and wind things down, those will probably go (well, maybe not the JD- its SO handy), and the Ollie will be in my estate sale.
 
Funny you mention a IH 766D. That is the one tractor that will never leave my yard. I have bought and traded alot of different machines over the years but that 766 is the only one to never leave. My first tractor I bought was a 706 gas that I gave to my dad for a yard tractor. The 766 replaced that one as my second tractor. My wife is under strict orders. If anything ever happens to me, do what she has to do, auction, whatever, but that 766 doesn't leave. I have great neighbors so she is to leave the 766 in their care until my son is old enough to take care of it himself.

Casey in SD
 
That's the problem. I have a whole row of them that I think I just have to keep.
 
My son has forbidden me to sell my JD 2130. I bought it 25 years ago when I started farming, and it has been my main tractor up until 2 years ago. Eric learned to drive on it and even after working for a big farmer with new CaseIH tractors for 2 years he still likes the old girl. He gets it if something happens to me. My brother sold the tractor my dad really liked, a Massey 30 and the old Cockshutt 30 that my grandfather bought new, and that my dad, me and my two brothers both learned how to drive on, so that is not going to happen to my favorite.
 
Ford 960 dad bought on a sale when I was 7 years old, I got to drive it (with help) from where it was unloaded up to the yard, my first tractor drive.

For useful, the Ford 5000 is right up there, fits my operation well.

--->Paul
 
It would be a toss-up between my Ford 3910 with loader and my Ford 5610-2 with loader! My Ford 5610 without loader would be a close third!

Dave

Edit: If I [u:a5d2353d96]had[/u:a5d2353d96] to choose just one, it would prolly be the 5610-2 with loader. The 3910 is handier, but the 5610-2 is stronger, and the loader is stronger and in better shape!
 
If I ever get it, my Grandpa's 1941 Farmall H. Also a 1941 Farmall M I bought in 1998. Been looking at a JD 4240 with the soundgard cab. It needs work but runs.
 
Guys, A 100 hp tractor W/ Loader will always be on My place! Handiest thing I have ever owned.
Sufficient size and Hp to do most all work & a loader that is built to match!
Later,
John A.
 
A Farmall M with a loader. It's a fairly small loader machine by today's standards but I am able to get by with it. When I buy a new and larger loader tractor I will keep that thing just for odd jobs. The neighbor with the best Deere stuff has even asked to borrow old Molly. That must say something!

Every time I think I have to get something bigger I'm reminded that this was the biggest there was years ago. Where there's a will, there's a way.
 
It would make a difference if it where to use everyday or just piddle around with. To just piddle around with it would be a choice between my Grand Dad's JD 4010 or JD 4020. Both are real handy tractors. To use everyday then I would have to say my JD 6400 MFWD with JD 640 loader. That tractor has over 15,000 hours on it and is used everyday.
 
I"ll be keeping my 806. It was a gift after a friend died, it's my workhorse, and my baby. Someday, When I buy a bigger/ newer tractor, it'll be the planting tractor. But it'll always get used and always be in my barn. -Andy
 
45 H farmall. Belonged to Grandndad and dad. 2 years older than I am. Turned it back red 3 years ago and won't part with it. Have a M farmall , same story. Use a Kubota mostly now but the farmalls from time to time. Nothing has a nicer sound than the farmall.
 

For practicality it would be my Kubota 3010 with loader and hoe, but for sentimentality it would be my '57 Ford 960. The 960 just has more "class" than just about anything out there, except for maybe a Case 1570 Spirit of '76. I guess I'll figure it out as the time gets closer.
 
Proubly would be Dad's F 12 he bought from the neighbor in the early 40's. He cultivated beans, then attached the cutter blades,and cut beans with it two rows at a time at night so they wouldn't shell out so bad. He attached the mower and cut hay with it.Then Dad had a buck rake he attached to bring the hay shocks to the stationary baler. Don't remember it ever having a problem.
Stan
 
If there is one thing I would want from my past it would have to be my grandfathers milk delivery wagon
Dad kept it for many years till it just got in such bad condition he got rid of it
I was to young at the time to take on repairing it but it would sure have been a fun project

At least I have the memories of dad talking about how the horse knew the milk route as good as grand dad did.
 
Man, that's like choosing one of your kids. I don't know if it would be my 1940 John Deere H(first tractor I ever owned), 1948 Allis-Chalmers B(Dad bought it new, I grew up on it), 1942 Farmall H(Grandpa bought it new, I drove it as a kid). Then there's my 1937 John Deere B(I relly like the look of the unstyled tractors), 1941 John Deere A(It has lights, starter, hydraulics, loader on it), 1948 John Deere D(just love the sound of that huge, slow running old 2 cylinder engine), 1944 John Deere B(I use it for just about every thing, it's so handy). I just don't think I could decide!
 
if I still had it, my poor old worn out Super M. I'd fix it all up like new and pull it's guts out again, but not in the fields, but on the local tracks. I bet it would do all right, probably as good, if not better than my John Deere G does. The G does fine, I'd just like the old Super M too.
 
Although our "48 JD A is my favorite, the one I would NEVER get rid of is our IH Super C.

Two I wish we had never parted with: Dad"s 1st "48 JD B; we knew very little about repairing tractors back then, it took a rumble down a hill on it"s own when someone neglected to set the brake, just missed crashing into the barn, jumped a ditch and cracked the frame, dad sold it for parts. We have other Bs now but they weren"t Dad"s!
Dad"s MT, I"m not a BIG MT fan; pretty much gotta plan your day as ya don"t wanna be gettin on and off it too much, and Dad says ya needed 3 men and a tribe of pigmys to mount the equipment for it...but it was Dad"s.
Now that we restore tractors we almost never sell one...they"re like guns...gettin too hard to come by and too expensive when ya can so why part with any?
 
i think on our farm it"ll have to be the massey 285. nice little small tractor, yet big enough to back in a 500bu gravity wagon before it rains. have a 3ph forklift, bush hog dump wagon.... anything you need, its there!
 
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