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Dad and me on Christmas morning with my new 620 Deere. I got it a year after I got my Oliver 88 pedal tractor. I got the whole set,tractor,plow,disc,mounted picker,combine,baler,manure spreader and wagon. Believe it or not,I can still see those boxes in my mind. One of my earliest memories.
He got me all this stuff at a young age,then tried to talk me out of farming when I got older. Wasn't thinking ahead was he?
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Yep. those toys are like addictive drugs to a farm kid who plans to stay on the farm. I don't have any pictures like that at least none that I am aware of. You had a post yesterday about the two Deeres which interested me. I know you had a pretty bad experience with a 3010 but I wish I could find my mother's father's 3010 diesel as it is one of the very few memories I have of him. I rode with him one late afternoon probably in 1966 while he was plowing while I was 3 and was giving cranky fits because I was tired and impatient which he was not impressed with. Unknown to me at that time his health was steadily going down hill and the farm was sold a year after that. He died a couple years after the sale of the farm. That 3010 to me is probably like the Christmas picture for you.
 
maybe he thought buying you a two cylinder tractor would discourage you from farming! On the other hand if that was his motive buying you an 88 may have backfired on him!
 
I was one of those kids that each box became their machine shed and playing farm was my favorite pastime.As I became a lot older my real tractors are still my favorite toys only much bigger.I have Harleys and a 66 NovaSS but my original 4020 that we still use for pto and hay work still brings a lot of memories of days gone by.When we get a new tractor now its not the same as my toy tractors that usually came with a new farm tractor.The new ones seem to have to see the dealer a lot more than my older ones.Computers and plastic are not always the best.
 
That piocture is a treasure. Thanks for sharing Randy.
My best memory's of my Dad was the smell of tobacco from the Bull Durham tobacco pouch He kept in his shirt pocket or the front of His bibs. with the little tag hanging out.
 
Wow...in profile like that your dad looks a lot like my dad! We hail from G.R., you one of them western Michigan Dutchman too?
 
I've managed to get them all back again plus a few more,without the boxes though. I was a little rough on the original ones. The tractor and my two older brothers 60s survived. I restored one of those as a 620.
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I know a lot of Finns who hail from the UP but no Swedes. It's a great picture. Just late I been reminiscing a lot myself. Must be da vetter.
 
Ya,Grandpa passed away a few years before I was born,so I never knew him. They say he always had a pouch of Red Man and a little stub of a pencil in his bib pocket.
 
Although we never had two cylinders the toy JDs were far superior to the IH toys which were made of plastic.It seems like Ertl was the maker back them and the detail was excellent.The front wheels turned and the combines had moving reels and a canvass that brought grain up to thrasher.My friend has a large toy collection in the Heartland Museum in Clarion,Ia that brings back a lot of memories of a days gone by.
 
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