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Re: Do you remember the terms of your first tractor purchase

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Cash 1900.00 for a 52 8n- 41 9n mutt, with back blade, rear scoop bucket, tire chains and a box of Misc, and Manuals with all receipts of work done to tractor and maintenance.

FIL passed and we inherited his house and 75 acres, at 57 yrs old has been first time I had room and need for a tractor mainly snow removal from 900 yrd driveway, food plot planting and trail up keep with the occasional fire wood gathering of blowdowns, do have 2 3pt harrows, a cultipacker, and yorkrake looking at adding another 52 8n for 1200.00 as a project over next winter and so wife can help and have her own tractor.
 
$100 for a R Minneapolis Moline about a
48. Had been hot and would barely run.
Smoked a lot and fouled plugs and had a
stuck valve or two and knocked bad. This
was 1966 I had just bought a house and 80
acres for 16500. Good house with a
basement. House wasn't completely finished
on inside. Still live in it. I worked at a
MM dealership. He had just bought out
another dealer and I was helping move
their parts to our store. I found
everything to overhaul engine. Including
new pistons. There was a new crank maybe
2. Parts were free. But decided didn't need it. Just needed
a new front main bearing. It was a ball
bearing. R's just had 2 main bearings. My
new wife plowed with it while I was at
work, with a 2 bottom AC trip rope plow.
Wish I could find the picture. Dad felt
sorry for her and loaned us a 801 Ford and
3 bottom mounted plow. It would plow more
than twice as much as the R would.
 
Yes I do--a H John Deere when I was a sophomore in HS--paid $30 for it overhauled in Voc-ag class and painted it--Many-Many moons ago---Tee
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My Dad pulling me--first start
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Smiling like a skunk eating manure--It started!!!
 
Yes , 1953 Super H with Farmhand loader ,paid $500 cash. I heard about it from a guy at church,he said it had one rear flat and a burned valve. I asked my Dad to go and pay him because I wasn't able to get there for some time and didn't want him to change his mind or sell it elsewhere. Turned out to be just a leaky tire valve stem insert and a fouled spark plug. I still have it and its my go to for all misc jobs, best money I ever spent. Been unbelievably reliable and handy. Bought it in 93 and was the first tractor I bought on my own apart from Dad.
 
Sure I remember it, I purchased a Farmall H in '83. Looked nice, recent paint, deep tread tires with normal dry cracking. It was all stock ,probably rebuilt at one time or another. Not messed with and still 6 volt. The seller was a "collector of green" and had recently purchased it at a farm auction. I paid the guy $600 for it and he said he would deliver it Saturday, Then his truck broke down and he said it would be a week so I had my wife take me to his place and I had to drive the 11 miles to the farm, on the back roads, I had no experience on a row crop tractor, I locked the brake together and away I went! I was in the early spring and we had a cold snap, musta been in the low forties and i froze my U NO what off!!!! I still have that tractor,,,, :D
 
I bought my first tractor a Cletrac AG at an auction when I was 16. I paid $350 for it. I was probably bidding against myself for that was all I had. I built a haywire blade for it. It was a pretty good tractor. I made the mistake of trying to farm with it It didn't last long.
 
Mine was a WD Allis bought for $500 on 1986. Dad paid for it and I kept a bill on my bedroom wall and marked down every time I paid him some back. Sold it a few years latter and then got it back and sold it again. Tom
 

Yeah. The dealer saw this newbie coming 40 years ago.

2500 bux for a 6' wide IH 460 with a 5' wide bush hog that the wheels knocked down stuff so it didn't mow clean. Had a manure bucket on the front to light to dig dirt and a one way cylinder that wouldn't push down t-posts when trying to fix fence. Had a diesel engine that didn't like to start in the winter when trying to move bales to feed the 7 horses. Leaked hy-tran like a sieve.

Yep, he saw me coming and he did tell me it was just what I needed at the farm to mow the pasture, move bales to feed the horses, and do some bucket work. Live and learn.
 
1953 WD,I bought it at auction for $375.00. Cash. about 1968,it was my car for years,I was in the 7th grade.
 
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