Re: NEW 50 Year Old Tractors

Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 26, 2006 at 03:22:12 from (216.208.58.179):

In Reply to: NEW 50 Year Old Tractors posted by GlennFitzGerald on February 25, 2006 at 18:44:35:

Glenn: There is a story, floats around Eastern Ontario, about a Farmall MD or Super MD. Dealer brought it in as a new tractor. His customers at that time were not yet ready for a tractor as large as the MD. It sat on his lot something like 3 to 5 years, unsold. He loaned it one day to a community group, doing some improvment to public grounds. Seems they ran it all day without switching it to diesel, and that somehow caused some damage. The dealer then moved it to his home and stored it in a shed where it stayed until his death, sometime in the late 80s. I'm not sure what happened after that, but expect some collector has it. Perhaps guys in that area can enlighten us.

I also had a dealer ask me in 1976, if I had any idea where a certain Farmall Super M was. It went missing while out on demonstrations in 1953. He fired the salesman responcible for the tractor at the time, for other reasons. Not too concerned about the Super M at the time, he figured one of his regular customers would be in some time within a year, wanting to pay for the tractor or at least wondering if he was ever coming for it. That never happened and after a time all dealers in the area were alerted to ask for serial numbers when selling parts for a Super M. In 22 years that had turned up nothing. He was baffled how a Super M could go all those years and never require parts. Maybe it has never needed any parts.

I have a Farmall 140, I suspect almost fits your catergory. My son found it in a heated warehouse and bought it. It had been there a good many years. I doubt if this tractor has seen 500 hours of work since new in 1963. Just my opinion, having owned new tractors in my day, and judging wear on items like steering, fast hitch, seat, levers and controls. Of course these little 140 don't have hour meters, thus one can't be certain. I'm not sure being parked all those years actually preserves tractors very well. It took close to $1,500. in parts to get this one going and running well, and not sure we're out of the woods yet. The PTO will still not engage, I had hoped that would come using the tractor and once again getting lub up around the PTO shifter. They do need exercise at least monthly.

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