Posted by Old Harv on August 01, 2012 at 18:39:55 from (198.164.4.48):
In Reply to: Your first tractor posted by Kow Farmer on August 01, 2012 at 16:33:36:
I bought a '47 Cockshutt 30 when I was 21. It had been my neighbour's when I was a kid. He custom square baled with it for my dad when I was 8 years old and I was too little to stack the bales, so I drove. When I was 21 the tractor had a wiring fire common to early Cockshutts, so he parked it out in a field. I had to beg him to take $300 for it. My dad and I towed it home with dad's Massey 44 so the neighbour wouldn't see that we could get it running in 5 minutes. My dad used it until I bought the farm when I was 27. Only problem was the farm I bought was 400 miles from the home place. I rented a trailer and borrowed my dad's '74 Crysler Newport with a 400 in it and proceeded to tow it home. Left Kitchener at 6pm and headed north to New Liskeard. Blew a tire on the trailer at Severn Bridge at 10:30 at night and had a crook sell me another one, finally got going at midnight. It was about 90 degrees, so I kept checking the tires every five or ten minutes, and had to wait until they cooled down. It took 5 hours to make North Bay, a 2 hour drive. At North Bay I had had enough, and parked the tractor at a friend's house and took the trailer and it's junky tires home. A couple of weeks later I drove my chevette to North Bay (120 miles) tied a hitch from a trailer to the front bumper of the car, hooked the hitch to the old Cockshutt, and pulled the chevette home. Took me 15 hours round trip. Didn't end up using it much, it's too light for the heavy soil here and no three point hitch. Traded it 10 years ago for an Allis D14, which doesn't do much work either.
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