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Did somebody say...."Tractors"??

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I'll play.
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My granddaughter trying it out and her with her other grandfather in her dads New Holland.
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1960 IH B414 and Belarus. Both were restored for using around the place.
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We will see what I can dig up....

This is a picture of what my 1950ish Wizard should look like:
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This is my 67 110 with a V-Twin stuffed in it:
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My 1950 B...to be restored once we get some room.
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And finally, my 1990 870 diesel....awesome little tractor! My Dad cut the roll bar off to fit through a door...it got welded back on after this picture.
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What's dat white stuff all over the ground????????????????????? lolol
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mopehead440 wrote:What's dat white stuff all over the ground????????????????????? lolol
frozen sunshine. ;)
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This was my first experience of a self driven vehicle when I was about 7 years old.
Not this exact one, but a similar one my dad bought new in 1950. It was the TVO version.
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Looks like I have killed another thread. :(
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I'm totally fascinated by tractors. No - nonsense, form follows function engineering. A lot like motorcycles...
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A few years ago I did a job in Minnesota and I met a guy in a bar that had a bunch of tractors.
Called to his place and got me a drive on this. Had never driven a tractor before with the gearbox crossways.
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friend of mine has a small Deere collection. a 420 crawler, 420 wheeled tractor, 440 crawler and probably enough parts to build another 420.
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Liam, I was about the same age as you when I got to drive a Ford 2N like the one below. I can remember being about 8 years old when I pulled a 8' wide culipacker (heavy serrated roller) behind my Dad while he was spring plowing in an attempt to crush the heavy clay clods produced by the plow. It was the first time I remember being allowed free reign with a tractor doing actual work with it.
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I didn't take too long before I graduated to the Oliver Super 88 Diesel that was my Dad's main tractor.
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Although during most of its working life it looked more like this.
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Here's an example of a Super 88 hard at work.

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Awesome. If I had a little more room and time I might have to have one or two.
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Liam wrote:A few years ago I did a job in Minnesota and I met a guy in a bar that had a bunch of tractors.
Called to his place and got me a drive on this. Had never driven a tractor before with the gearbox crossways.

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