O/T old pictures

In a previous post I said that I had owned many tractors over the last 43 years. Here are a couple. I still have the 53 Ferguson TO30, but it bugs me that it isn’t the one that dad and mom bought new. I still have the extra key (still in the dealers little envelope), and the bill of sale, and a couple wrenches that came with it. I bought the 53 in 83 and am the 2nd owner. It is a good tight little tractor. The 1130 is a 72 model I bought in 78. Sold it in 83 when farm prices were so low. I got disgusted and quit farming for a couple years. In a previous post I said that I had owned many tractors over the last 43 years. Here are a couple. I still have the 53 Ferguson TO30, but it bugs me that it isn’t the one that dad and mom bought new back then. I have the extra key (still in the dealers little envelope), and the bill of sale, and a couple wrenches that came with it. I bought the 53 in 83 and am the 2nd owner. It is a good tight little tractor. The 1130 is a 72 model I bought in 78. Sold it in 83 when farm prices were so low. I got disgusted and quit farming for a couple years. The last one is of my g-grandpa and family with his tractor (a yoke of oxen) working the farm in about 1900. My grandma is the baby in the picture NE Ark, in the swamps. I'm glad that I didn't have cut the timber off the land, and chop and burn out the stumps before could farm with oxen!

Did they paint them red in 53? My Uncle bought a new Ferguson Deluxe 35 in 1954 and it was gray with a green engine and drive train

Large,

Thanks for the pictures, especially the one of your great grandparents. It was 20 degrees here in Middle Tennessee when I went out to feed the livestock. I was whining and feeling sorry for myself about how hard the cold weather is as I was starting my tractor and pulling my hay wagon out to the pasture.

This picture has brought me back to reality. How did folks survive back then? They were a lot tougher than I am.

Thanks again,

Tom in TN

No it was originally grey. My dad painted this one red in 1984 right after we bought it. The one that mom and dad bought new in 1952 wasold at their farm auction in 1960. They had had 3 yr of crop failure and Boeving Bros. Cotton Co. called in their loans and they had to liquidate.