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EdinKS

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I was taking my Oliver '88 out for its biweekly exercise when the thought came to me that the tractor was kind of like me. Old, still strong, but not as strong as it used to be. Hard to get started. Has some leaks, scars, stains, and patches. Needs some work done on it, most simple stuff, possibly some serious repairs needed before long. Still cleans up pretty well. The women show some interest but only for a short while. Kids like to be around it. Still has a lot of life left. When I climb up on the old gal, its kind of like setting down with an old friend over coffee or a beer!

Do any of you ever have similar thoughts? or maybe I'm just strange?
 
I have a couple old tractors, but I never thought of them that way. farmall M and Farmall B. the B is a 1941
and I shall be 84 next month====THANKS
 
These were at great oregon steam up this
year, with a sign inviting kids to sit on
them and have photos taken
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3 of my tractors are as old or older than me.
My 2004 Kubota is the youngster.
I will be 69 in a short time.
Richard in NW SC where we are about to get much wetter.
 
You have touched on similar feelings.
I have two tractors, a Farmall A created in 1944, and mostly restored. It is in good condition, known in our club as Holy Smoke, because I am a retired cleric, and it smoked briefly
when I first started it (from all the penetrating oil in cylinders). My other project tractor is a 1942
Farmall M that could benefit from a stay in a tractor hospital. It sat for twenty years in front of a restaurant as a
town mascot for the business. They are just a bit newer than me. My vintage is 1940.
My truck is a 2005 GMC. my dream is a vintage truck ca late 40's to pull a trailer for my two show machines
Kris
 
I have a 1955 Oliver S88 that is one year older then I am and most of the time it starts so easy I cannot get my hand off the starter button before it is running
 
Love it, encouraging kids to climb on them. When kids come to our volunteer fire stations, we encourage them to climb around, we will even turn on the batteries, so they can run the sirens. That's how you create interest.
 
I mowed county roadsides with a JD40U and Detroit Harvester sickle bar mower as a college student.

When I slowly climb on my JD320U it takes 65 years off my mind.
 

Yes. I grew up on a Farmall H, and yes, when I start up my Farmall H and climb into the seat, it is just like spending time with an old friend. My H is a 1950 model. One year older than me, and yes, we both have considerable battle scars and are not as strong as we used to be, but we both are still able to get the job done.
 
Gives me hope if I ever find myself single. Everything is new when it's new to somebody else. Maybe I could be new again and excite
somebody. LOL
 
I don't know about all that. My H that was my grandfathers, is a '49. Which makes it 29 years my senior. It was only 38 when I first drove it. So, to
me it isn't an old tractor. Starts every time, seems to be eager to get to work, leaks less than I do, doesn't make as many odd noises, has a proud,
alert stance & sure as hell looks slimmer. Think I'm going to change my name to Pacer or Vega DWR (delivered with rust). Someone want to call the
rollback for me? I'll give you the address of the local boneyard. You can keep the change, it won't be much.

Mike
 
(quoted from post at 15:06:13 08/16/21) Gives me hope if I ever find myself single. Everything is new when it's new to somebody else. Maybe I could be new again and excite
somebody. LOL
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a!! I'm not single, but I'm not dead either. I can still tell if a woman notices me! 8)

BTW: I'm 75 driving a 67 year old tractor.
 
Yep, think of that every time I start the Farmall H my grandfather bought new in 1942 or the Allis-Chalmers B my dad bought new in 1948. We're all
about the same age, and the same problems.
 
Lucky for you that you dont have a John Deere A with a hand crank. In my dads later years he relied on me to start it.
 
Nothing strange there. I can relate to that. I only use my late 30's AC Model M crawler around the place disking. I stopped doing work for
others last year. At 79 I need a lot to grab onto climbing aboard. I sit down on my horse blanket covered seat, slide my legs down to the pedals.
Just like my living room chair. The tractor and myself have a 25 year good relation ship. Stan
 
IO will be 90 tomorrow and drive a 1948 Farmall in the summer. 72 year old tractor that brings me much joy.
 
Was at a new to me specialist doctor one day. He asked what I did since I am retired? Told him I do the same thing he does. Spend hundreds of
hours and thousands of dollars fixing up old stuff. Then I stand back and admire this old thing that looks and works like new but is now old, obsolete
and basically useless
 
Some people spend 20 years trying to get off a tractor, and then, the next 40 trying to get back on one.

The therapeutic properties of tractor time can not be understated.... and, much less understood

This one is mine and is 2 years older than I am - I look forward to tractor time I go back home to Missouri


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