Lets see your tractors

[85_Ranger4x4]

Seems there are a bunch of them out there, couple A-C's lurking about, there has to be more so post them up.

My very first, a 1946 John Deere B. My dad got it for dirt cheap 30 years ago because the kid that just rebuilt it couldn't get it to start, mainly because the mag was 180 off. Back in the 70's a running one was barely worth more than scrap. It hasn't missed a beat since, my dad asked me which tractor of his was my favorite when I was about 7, I picked it because the seat (not original, same as many Farmall's) had a place for my feet when I rode with him and he said it is now yours.

I had the hood off to fix a air cleaner problem last fall so I put some paint and decals on it while it was off, the rest will get painted when I get time but it looks much better already.

The second was my C, I got it in seventh grade from a neighbor in pieces, took two pickuploads to bring it home. It was a lot of fun putting it back together.

The third is my WD-45, official ownership hasn't ever really been settled, but I call it mine. My great grandfather bought it brand new, and passed it down to my grandfather when he got his own farm. Somewhere down the line he had the local FFA club put a new headgasket on it and they forgot to hook up a oil line and seized two rods on the crank. So it set until my dad entered the picture, and my dad got it in trade for doing some work on my grandfather D-17. Put pretty much a brand new engine in it in the early 90's, and it is still in great shape.

I have pulled it with varying amounts of success, and take it to shows and short drives. In this picture I have a 2-14 slatbottom plow which is similar to the one my grandpa farmed with (his was a 3-14 slatbottom) That I used to plow the garden and some patches in the pasture to reseed this spring.

 

[Blacksheep]

wow, i would love to restor a old jd like that one day. thats awsome man. my tractor is kinda restored/new. lol its a 03-05 model jd 5210. ill get a pic up tom. but my g-f's family has about 10 old jd's like urs and im about to die for one. lol

 

[Will]

Here's my 1949 Deere MC:

And my 1971 Bobcat M371:

Here's some tractor or another that saved me when I was trapped in an icy valley in Delaware in Sam's '03 F350 4x4 diesel crewcab dually with a 1987 K3500 4x4 on the trailer--something like 17,000# of weight altogether and it was looking like hell for me ever coming out of there. The tractor spun like crazy the whole way up and I was gently hold the accelerator, turbo whistling, turning the wheel back and forth to keep as much of a grip on the front tires as I could when my forearm accidently hit that big dome of a horn button and the tractor guy lets off to look back and see what was wrong.

But we did it. Eventually. I thought I was going to have to grow an Amish beard and live there.

 

[colinrmitchell]

That crawler is sweet. I've been wanting to get one of the old AC crawlers to restore. Saw one at a fair not long ago, gave me a half chub!

We've already seen my Allis. I would like to work on her some this summer, but being a broke college student, $70 for a gallon of Persian Orange is a little outta my league.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

We've already seen my Allis. I would like to work on her some this summer, but being a broke college student, $70 for a gallon of Persian Orange is a little outta my league.

You can go ahead on post them up, it won't hurt us to see them again.

I know a guy that found the paint codes and had his WD-45 paint mixed at True-Value, it has been over 5 years and it still looks great. Has to cost less than $70.

 

[colinrmitchell]

Alright, I took her out for a spin just now. Running a little slow, I think the timing is off a little (those Wico's aren't well designed).

My two girls:

 

[4.0B2]

yes, i thread dug... kinda. i thought about starting one, but decided to search first... and found this.

here's my 47 8N... bringing it home to do a little overhaul on it and little other work.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

yes, i thread dug... kinda. i thought about starting one, but decided to search first... and found this.

here's my 47 8N... bringing it home to do a little overhaul on it and little other work.

Pretty sharp, I don't think I have ever seen a grille guard like that before. Usually they are made of about 1/4" x 2" flat plate.

I was searching for this to link it for ya and you had already posted by the time I found it.

 

[4.0B2]

lol yeah. i just searched.. 3rd one down was this
in that pic is missing the actual grille. but its back on now.

that guard has been on there as long as i've known, i've assumed its stock. idk for sure tho???? lol

 

[JohnnyU]

Will, I'll happily take the wheel weights off the bobcat, and the whole MC if you ever decide to part with them. Those JD weights are getting harder to find, I picked up one set, but you can never have too many weights.

 

[deere842]

I've got a smaller scale tractor... 1994 John Deere stx30. Will do 80 MPH easy

 

[4.0B2]

lol nice...

 

[Will]

Will, I'll happily take the wheel weights off the bobcat, and the whole MC if you ever decide to part with them. Those JD weights are getting harder to find, I picked up one set, but you can never have too many weights.

Three years ago I posted that.

I still have it, though. I do want to sell it, I think. I used it quite a bit last summer, the hydraulic pump went out just in time to end the driveway I was grading. I used it to skid a bunch of logs with the blade blocked up. Now it's been under a tarp since. I got it out once to pull some black locust logs out of the woods, but that's it. No, that's not it. I used it to pull a neighbors tree back up so we could stake it and try to save it. I also pulled a tree-trimming boom-truck with a chipper on it out when it slid down toward their pond. My only reluctance in getting rid of it is that it never gets stuck. A tracked vehicle this size is awsome.

The engine runs perfectly. The clutches and gears and things work perfectly. The track pins have a lot of meat left in them, but the steel pads are all rattly. Whoever I got it from welded the track pads to the bolts that hold them, but a lot have broken loose. It works great, they are just loud. It would take a couple hours to weld them all back, I think. Also, when I pulled a track a while back (if you remember) I had to cut a pin. I put a grade 8 bolt in it and forgot about it. I'm sure that bit will need another grade 8 bolt eventually, but it works fine. It's a great working machine.

It needs a new hydraulic pump, but the one on it was some half-assed thing added to it in the past. The generator is long gone, there was a Chrysler alternator on it that didn't work whn I bought it. I took that off and just run it off of a battery alone. It will run all day on one charge, easily, as all it has is the ignition. When you go to start this thing, even on the coldest day it takes about a half a crank and it it is pop-pop-popping away, no choke even. The point is, I was going to put the hydraulic pump I took off of my Bobcat onto the crawler where the alternator goes. It will be good enough to pick up that blade. It wouldn't lift a loaded bucket very fast, but that blade it would. The blade and mount is all ugly homemade, but it works.

I don't have a hood, but I do have a battered old grille for it. I don't have a designated battery either--I use the deep-cycle out of my Bronco, which I also use on the little tugboat.

The Bobcat wheelweights are needed. Without them, the Bobcat tips over when using the grapple bucket on anything larger than a mouthful of clover.

That picture is old, incidently. I fabricated auxillary hydraulics on it since then, and reconfigured the balance. Ugly, but this machine doesn't support the buttons.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

I've got a smaller scale tractor... 1994 John Deere stx30. Will do 80 MPH easy

You must have better steering than mine.

 

[Will]

My crawler will go 8mph. It's scary going that fast on it, though. I'm afraid something will get hung up in the sprockets. It has so much traction you would get splattered all over the place during an instant stop. Much better to clank majestically around the field.