They Just Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To! Ford Tractors
Dec 20, 2018 14:36:30 #
Anyone into restoring old farm equipment? Here's your chance, and they all run, I believe.
Dec 20, 2018 14:40:40 #
BlueMorel wrote:
Anyone into restoring old farm equipment? Here's your chance, and they all run, I believe.
Dec 20, 2018 14:56:37 #
A Tractor took this farmer to his final resting place. This guy a friend of mine owned the farm land across the road from my place. This was about three years ago. I may have posted these photos back than. They had about five or six tractors that he had restored around the grave site.
Dec 20, 2018 15:33:20 #
They don’t make Ford tractors like they used to? Thank the lord!
Nice photo.
Nice photo.
Dec 20, 2018 17:09:43 #
Dec 20, 2018 18:40:20 #
Hal81 wrote:
A Tractor took this farmer to his final resting place. This guy a friend of mine owned the farm land across the road from my place. This was about three years ago. I may have posted these photos back than. They had about five or six tractors that he had restored around the grave site.
That was a wonderful sendoff. I love living amongst farmers though I'm not one myself. Their politics aren't always like mine, but I've found my farming neighbors to always be willing to lend a helping hand if need be. We have a father and grandfather down the road who have been deeply involved in our county government, and the great-grandfather was until he passed away. And I don't mind slow-moving farm vehicles in front of me, even when I'm in a hurry. I feel like the interloper on their work roads.
Dec 20, 2018 20:41:23 #
BlueMorel wrote:
Anyone into restoring old farm equipment? Here's your chance, and they all run, I believe.
I don't think this one runs - but then it's not a Ford.
Nice shots BlueMore
Dec 20, 2018 23:27:10 #
repleo wrote:
I don't think this one runs - but then it's not a Ford.
Nice shots BlueMore
Nice shots BlueMore
Thanks! You'd be surprised - people who like to tinker might just get that one running. DH is tinkering with what I hope is the last tinker needed for a bit - replacing the last of four rusted rims and fixing the hydraulics so he can lift the snow blade to straight. Right now it's a big paperweight and we're hoping for no snow.
Dec 21, 2018 07:37:46 #
GED
Loc: North central Pa
BlueMorel wrote:
Anyone into restoring old farm equipment? Here's your chance, and they all run, I believe.
As a matter of fact I spent part of a summer a few years ago restoring one of those to use for mowing. It was a very enjoyable project, what surprised me was the readily available parts for a machine made in 1947. Here are two photos of it and a photo of a collection of restored Ford tractors which came about because the owners wife would buy him another tractor every year for his birthday. At family gatherings they would get all the Ford tractors out and wash them up for display. The Ford 8N tractor could be considered a lifetime investment if cared for properly. It does not have all the bells and whistles of today's machines but it did not have to be replaced every few years, it WAS an environmentally responsible design.
Dec 21, 2018 08:42:05 #
I grew up in the land of John Deere and Allis Chalmers. Fords weren't considered "real" tractors.
Dec 21, 2018 09:44:46 #
GED wrote:
As a matter of fact I spent part of a summer a few... (show quote)
Beautiful machine! We have a 1950 Massey-Ferguson TO-50 but I can't operate it - too much arm strength needed to steer.
Dec 21, 2018 09:59:21 #
Dec 21, 2018 10:40:03 #
GED
Loc: North central Pa
AzPicLady wrote:
I grew up in the land of John Deere and Allis Chalmers. Fords weren't considered "real" tractors.
Many folks don't realize most of the John Deere Compact tractors since the 80's were actually built by Yanmar in japan. I believe they are still using the Yanmar Diesels currently. I only found this information out after restoring a Yanmar 4wd I use for plowing. Here is a photo of the Yanmar and Deere marketed the same tractor in the US, if you look on the frame of the Deere tractor it will say made by Yanmar in Japan. Yanmar's are very well made durable tractors, the one in the photo is a 1980 model and I use it all the time.
Dec 21, 2018 10:49:38 #
Dec 21, 2018 11:39:48 #
One of my grandfathers had a fairly new (at that time) 8N. My brothers and I used to race that thing around like a go-cart, lucky we didn't upset it. Grandpa either didn't know or didn't care, he was pretty easy going.
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