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RusselAZ · Mar 26, 2016

Next in the line.

vscummins · Mar 26, 2016

Does it run

RusselAZ · Mar 26, 2016

Yes it did. Loud to.

Dick2 · Mar 27, 2016

Dad had three of those old beasts that we had to run through WWII. Actually, one broke a crankshaft and broke out both sides of the crankcase - it went for scrap. Hated when those tractors would fire on an open cylinder and blow your hearing out for half a day.

The first tractor that became available after the war was a W4; Dad traded off the old GP on that. He sold one old D to a guy in northern MN. Don't remember where the other old D went, was just glad to get rid of it.

massey333 · Mar 27, 2016

Maybe I don't understand your remark Dave2 and others about no tractors being available during the war.There WERE NO tractors unavailable during World War 2.

LarrySTN · Mar 27, 2016

I remember all the "old" farmers wearing hearing aids when I was a kid. Then as a teen I put a straight stack on my first tractor. That lasted for a year or two. I got to be driving age and bought a 3 cylinder 2 stroke motorcycle and thought it needed "stingers". I didn't leave the stingers on very long. Now I see many at plow days or other tractor shows with chrome stacks (no mufflers) and think all too soon they will experience the constant ringing in their ears. I love the pictures of the old tractors, especially the D, and would love to drive one but my ears would be noise protected. My late father was a kid in the twenties and grandpa's first tractor was an international 8-16, no muffler. Dad said a long day would leave you with ringing ears and a headache. He thought his kids were nuts when we discarded the mufflers. Aah, the good ole days.

Mark-Ia · Mar 27, 2016

You don't see those Lister Guide bands on a D . Very rare.

CGID · Mar 27, 2016

What were those bands used for?

RusselAZ · Mar 27, 2016

While your post is true you couldn't just go down to the local dealer and buy one. They were rationed, partly by materials, partly by the government. Lots of paperwork to get on a waiting list. Tractors were few and far between even for a couple years after the war.

As my Dad told me.

Goose · Mar 27, 2016

I recall my dad was on a waiting list for a Ford N series all through WWII. He never did get one. A couple of years after the war, a VAC Case became available so he bought that and forgot about a Ford.

massey333 · Mar 27, 2016

I will still say the same thing,no one I knew of had to wait to buy a new tractor then,between my dad and grand fathers,they bought 8 or 9 new tractors,a new combine(A-C and MH)every year or 2 at the most.A-C,MH,JDs,Cases and Farmalls were being bought all the time.The only trouble dad had was getting wire for his Case Pickup baler(had the first or second in state plus a couple more during war and baled all 12 months in a yr)

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