New tractors for Christmas

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rrlund

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• Dec 22, 2014

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Here's a few shots of new tractors for Christmas back in the day. Me with my new Oliver 88,then me and Dad with my new John Deere 620 a year later.

 

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ray hofstetter

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• Dec 22, 2014

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Randy, I had an Oliver 88 like that...I wore the thing out in a year or two. That's how I learned to back wagons up....

 

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Animal

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• Dec 22, 2014

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were those the days or what? I wish that I could still get a charge out of Christmas like that..I probably could if I thought My grandchildren were as appreciative as I was at that age.

 

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rrlund

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• Dec 22, 2014

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I had this one restored 20-25 years ago. It had a few holes in it where I had customized it with a few options that weren't exactly factory. Back then we did with them what they were intended for. We played with them to no end.

 

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada

• Dec 22, 2014

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Looks like your Dad started to feed your tractor addiction early.

 

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rrlund

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• Dec 22, 2014

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I've been told I fell off his Oliver 66 and landed on my head. I guess he thought he'd better get me something that was closer to the ground. lol

 

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Richard G.

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• Dec 22, 2014

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Those photos are priceless.
Richard in NW SC

 

super99

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• Dec 22, 2014

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Your post brought back a memory for me. I was born early Christmas morning and my older brother was 3 years old. Mom and Dad left him with Mom's parents when they left for the hospital. They called Grandma and Granddad and said you have another grandson. They woke my brother up to tell him he had a new baby brother and all he said was( Did I get my John Deere tractor?) Chris

 

Dan in Ohio

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Mid-Ohio

• Dec 22, 2014

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I have some of the same memories, mine were the other green though. Great pics and memories. Thanks

 

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Fergienewbee

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• Dec 22, 2014

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I remember getting JD tractors and implements, but don't know if it was for Christmas. I had a manure spreader, a plow, disc, drag and I think a combine. All made out of metal.

Larry

 

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gab

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• Dec 22, 2014

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I liked going to the farmall dealer with dad, seemed like it took years to convince him I needed a pedal tractor, finally got an h or an m for Christmas, don't remember which model it was but it had the open space grill and smooth rear tires, always hated the rear tires cause they didn't have the tractor bar tread and my older brother wired a big old car horn to the grill and I beat it off with a hammer along with a couple bars out of the grill.

 

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John_PA

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• Dec 22, 2014

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I get the same look on my face every time I look at a John Deere.

 

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Den N Ms

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• Dec 22, 2014

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Rrlund ,Do you still have that 88 pedal? It's worth quite a bit today.I have a old H IH and a 400 Case I restored

 

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GregCO

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• Dec 22, 2014

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Really nice old pictures. I remember Christmas being like that. Got a toy you had to make work without batteries or power cords. Push and pull toys. Then I got my first bicycle. Then I was the stuff. Best Christmas's ever.
Thanks for sharing.

Greg

 

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vscummins

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• Dec 23, 2014

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Sure are some neat tractors you got there . Wish they still made anything that quality today

 

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rrlund

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• Dec 23, 2014

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Yup,still got it. This picture was taken in the same room of the same house in fact.

 

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Mike M

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• Dec 23, 2014

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Must be a ghost in there ? I doubt it was taken with the same camera ? but it is also blurry just like the original ?

 

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Traditional Farmer

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Virginia

• Dec 23, 2014

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My Aunt worked at an IH dealership back in the 50's so for Christmas in 1955 she gave me a Farmall 400 pedal tractor I rode it to death and then I gave it to my cousin (aunt's daughter) when she came along.It was unintentionally sold at my Aunt's auction back in 1989 when she moved to a new house.The buyer restored the 400 and my aunt bought it back at his sale.Aunt died this past March and my
cousin gave me the 400 back.So I told her daughter she'd better get busy so I could give it to her kids(LOL)

 

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Donald Lehman

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• Dec 23, 2014

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I had an AC pedal tractor. I also had a 620 JD toy tractor. Mlne had a 3 pt hitch and matching 4 bottom plow. Literally plowed up a lot of "farm land" in moms garden with that 620 and plow. Had A 400 Farmall with a 3 bottom pull type also. Used to push the tractors ahead with my left hand while I used my right hand on the plows to get enough weight on them to actually cut into the ground and turn furrows.

Frame warpage seemed to be a problem with both plows. (chuckle!) Used to pick up finger nail sized stones around the garden to get enough weight piled onto the disc harrow to work the plowed ground. Pop always joked that if he could work up as nice a seed bed with his tractors as I did with my tractors he'd be a happy man.

 

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rrlund

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• Dec 23, 2014

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This one had a 3 point. A few years later Dad got me a 3010 with a 3 point and gave me a 4 bottom mounted plow for that. He told me he bought the plow for the 620 but he didn't think it would pull it. LOL

 

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Donald Lehman

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• Dec 23, 2014

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Well by golly, I'm here to tell ya, a 620 WILL handle the 4 bottom. At least in mom's garden. Lol!

 

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Carlyle hoffman

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• Dec 23, 2014

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Today xmas only lasts about 30 mins, till MR and MRS Santa get tired of the noise and then put away for a day or so or the early teens go back to TEXTING or the SCREEN box. Hell our Xmases lasted till spring, will never forget. Its to bad as CHILDREN today will never know what we had.

 

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Mike Henry

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• Dec 23, 2014

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I got a 20 series for my 3d Christmas from my gr.pa. Like all other farm boys I put it to use in the garden area. Had an uncle who was creative and made me a disk,field digger of sorts,wagon and s. spreader. One day that spring gr.pa came in from the field for lunch and fuel. I parked my tractor behind his, which he didn't know. 90 minutes later farming stopped and we went to town to buy me a new tractor. Uncle took parts from the smashed tractor and made me duals and a T trailer to pull my brother around on. Had that tractor till I was a jr in high school and our house burned. Someone came into the place between getting the fire out at 2am and sun rise and took it with many other things that barely survived the fire.