Posted by JDseller on May 20, 2012 at 11:37:22 from (208.126.196.144):
The correction police really makes me madd as HE!! at times. My second wife is from southern Ohio. Her Dad farmed a 50 acre farm and made a living good enough to send four kids to Ohio State to college without any school loans. HE raised 8-10 acres of tobacco and milked 20-25 cows by hand. I met the man several times way back then as his oldest son was in the Army with me. We had some training at Fort Campbell, KY. he took me home with him for a weekend a few times. My future FIL was one heck of a man. HE could put you on your knees with the grip he had. LOL He was a smaller fellow. Only about 5 foot 5 inches tall but he was a heck of a worker. Any way the point of this. He only ever owned one tractor. It was a 1947 JD "B". He traded a team of horses and a thousand dollars for it brand new with the implements he had. He had a plow, a disk, and a cultivator for it. That is all it every was used for. He still planted and mowed hay with horses into the late 1960s. He did not want to wear out his tractor. He passed on in 1980. The farm was rented and the equipment was just parked in the shed. Five years ago my MIL died. The family got together to divide/sell/settle the estate. My wife told them all she wanted was her Dad's tractor and implements. They could split the house and the land she just wanted the equipment. She could have gotten more money from a share of everything but she just wanted the tractor. Plus she stated that she was well provided for and some of her siblings where not as well off. She is the youngest of them. She wanted them to have a little better time of it. So we hauled everything home. It was not in real bad shape as it was not worn clear out but it had been sitting for 25 years.
I restored that tractor over a two year period. I took it back down to the castings. I replaced every single bearing, seal, and gasket on that tractor. It was put back in "new" condition. It was easy since her Dad had never modified anything. He was finical about keeping it all original. She said he always said if it had needed anything different JD would have done it at the factory. LOL. So I know that this tractor is factory original. I even just used JD paint as she did not want it to be better than it was new. We even have the original umbrella. Her Dad bought one frame/mount and two canvas tops. He put one up for when the first went bad. They found it when they cleaned the house out after her Mother died. So this tractor has never changed hands since it was new. It is her most valuable possession. She helped her Dad do the field work and he had her drive the tractor and he worked the horses. HE always took the hardest/dirtiest work for himself.
Two years ago we had a church tractor ride/tractor show as a fund raiser for some one for health cost. She wanted to drive her tractor. So we got it out for her and we all went. My wife has many health issues so it is rare for her to be able to go out and do this type of stuff. So she was really fired up and happy as a lark to be doing this. She says she can feel her Dad's hands holding her on the seat when she is on that tractor.
We had the tractors all lined up just before we where going to start the tractor ride. Some guy wearing a hat and jacket that had the Two Cylinder club all over it stopped and looked at her tractor. He spent ten minutes telling her that this and that was all wrong on the tractor. This and that was not original and such. He even had an issue with the umbrella. Said it was a Poor copy of an original. Darn funny since JD sold it with the tractor in 1947. She was so madd she about was in tears. I totally lost it. I ran over and told the guy to leave the show or I was going to beat him to death. I was not joking about that. The minister came over and heard the ruckus. He told the man to leave the church grounds as he was not welcomed any more. It really kind of ruined a good day. Plus she will not take her tractor to any shows/rides after that. She drives it around here and even works with it but she says it is for her not anyone else. She did plow and disk the sweet corn patch this year with it and the original implements.( they where twice as hard to restore)
So we now have our own rides several times each year. Just the family. With the kids having kids we are getting quite a few just that way. We usually make a big weekend out of it. The last several times I rent a big tent and we all cook out. Many of the Grand kids camp out all weekend next to "their" tractor. It is a blast. I feel sorry for the idiots that just worry about things being "correct".
PS I am getting requests from the Grand Daughters already for some JD equipment they can use with their horses the next get together. LOL. What do you guys think would work??? Remember they have riding horses. I am kind of at a loss as to what would work.
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