I'm a young and dumb 19 year old, but I try to hide the ignorance. To answer your first question, I can't really say that I've got my own tractor, but I generally consider one mine.
It's an early 1950 Ford 8N, without all the fancy new features that came out later that year. My dad bought it around 1995 to work on his newly purchased 15 acre pecan grove just north of Oklahoma City. That wasn't my first exposure, however. Now don't get angry, this was a long time ago but I've got a picture of me riding on my grandpa's lap when I was 3 years old while he was out mowing his lake property at Lake Texoma. That's a 1960 Ford 631, an old highway tractor. My uncle has also got an old Massey 135 that I got to ride occasionally.
Then my grandparents started getting older, and they decided to sell the lake house, but ended up keeping the Ford. My uncle (the same with the Massey) runs a construction company, and hauled it up to the pecan grove, where my grandpa still gets to use it when he's feeling well enough (he's 78 now). My dad died in 1999 due to heart problems, and I got to learn how to use the 8N with grandpa. Since I'm one of only a handful of people who know how to run it (or start it), I generally consider it my own while it legally belongs to my mom.
I really wasn't interested in old tractors until I came across this website looking for help, I guess that was around 2004. I generally had an interest in tractors, as my dad and I would go to the big farm shows at the state fair grounds. My favorite was always the big articulated four wheel drives, because I could sit down inside the tire rim.
What gives me the most enjoyment is having the tractor start up, even though it's almost 60 years old and has been sitting in the barn for months. That, and I just can't stand burning half a day to drive out there and not have the machinery cooperate. I always find something else that needs to be done, but it just feels so good to "see if it'll start" as my grandpa puts it.
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