Well, I'm over 25 by a few years, but not many, so I'll give 'er a go! I have always loved old tractors as far back as I can remember. Played with tractors when I was old enough to crawl. When I was born, dad and grandpa only had two tractors on the dairy farm. A D-14 Allis Chalmers and an 860 Ford, both are still in our machine shed today. The Ford mowed hay with a 501 mower and baled with a Ferguson #10 baler. The D-14 did everything else on the farm. Dairy cows left in 1980, and by 1983 it was time to move into the era of round bales for the beef herd. Grandpa bought a Hesston 5600 baler, 4x16 Case plow, and a 12ft. Case disk. Dad bought a late model 830 Comfort King dual range transmission with a cab and new Allied loader. I remember the day the trucks delivered all four items at once. I didn't know machinery that big exsisted! Still have everything but the baler. In 1988 I got my first tractor, an Allis B. That sealed the deal. I have loved old tractors ever since. I used that tractor primarily raking hay, but for anything else I could think of too. In 1990, grandpa bought his last tractor. A 1970 Allis Chalmers 170 gas with a loader and cab. He loved using that tractor in the winter to feed cattle and plow snow and in the summer he used it on the 9ft Hesston PT10 haybine cutting hay. That tractor and haybine were the last things he saw of his farm. He died from heart attack complications he got while pulling a plugged up wad of hay from the haybine, in 1993. The 170 is still here, the haybine sold off about 10 years ago. The farm kinda of floated along while I was in high school and college, always had a few beef cows, but things weren't kept as they should have been. I finished college in 2001, moved back to the home place and started improvements, with my dad and brother helping. Built the beef herd up to 50 pretty nice cows, rebuilt miles of fences and built all new corrals, also built a new cattle barn and machine shed. We now do our farming primarily with a 1970 JohnDeere 4020 Diesel, a 1980 Farmall 686, and a 1985 Allis Chalmers 6070. For old tractors we have: Farmall- 200 wf fh, 230 wf fh, W4 Allis Chalmers- 170, D-14, C, RC, HD6 crawler with blade. Ford- 860, 3500 Industrial with loader and backhoe. Case- 830 John Deere- AR styled Massey Harris- Pony I have also bought and resold about 50 tractors in the past 10 years. That's my story on old iron!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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