If you try to mix hobby tractor restoration and business, you're going to go broke and cause yourself lots of frustration and misery.
Grandpa's ol 3020 is a hobby and a restoration project. Anything can be done with enough time and money as far as hobby restorations.
Farming 100 acres is business. The most valuable commodity in business is time. Especially trying to do it as a second full time job, you can't afford the TIME that old Deere will cost you.
It sounds like grandpa beat that Deere like a rented mule and didn't maintain anything.
If you try to use that thing as a production tractor, you will in short order discover everything that wasn't maintained, was wore out and not replaced, or was rigging-job fixed just to make it work for a couple of more hours. Every time you NEED that tractor to work because yo're trying to get 30 more acres planted before a big rain chases you out of the field for 3 days, that thing is going to go belly up on you as you discover yet another thing that was wore out.
Buy a tractor that has been properly maintained and is capeable of doing what you need it to do the minute it rolls tires on your farm.
Grandpa's Deere is a hobby project. Buy it if you can afford it, but don't mix business and pleasure or you'll have neithter.
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