When did you get your first tractor?
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Not really...You guys are being too literal
I never had a tractor before, only a loader, around 1968 ...
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PHPaul
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B2650, Pronovost snow blower, Landpride rotary mower, Howard tiller, box blade
I'd guess around 1958. We had a local agricultural fair and the John Deere tent always had toys on display. If we'd had a good year on the farm, Dad would buy me a toy. I can remember 2 cylinder models, a manure spreader, a Model 12 combine and a MC or 40 crawler and later a New Generation tractor and a 3 bottom plow.
Many happy hours in a corner of the garden plot.
Many happy hours in a corner of the garden plot.
As a kid, I got heavy equipment in the 60s. Never a tractor.
January 2021 for the L2501 HST. I bought our Poulan riding lawn mower/tractor in May 2017. The Poulan is a 17.5 HP Briggs and Stratton. Both have been good.
January 2021 for the L2501 HST. I bought our Poulan riding lawn mower/tractor in May 2017. The Poulan is a 17.5 HP Briggs and Stratton. Both have been good.
I grew up in an orphanage and toys weren't a thing for us ... neither was food it seems!
My first "tractor" was a John Deere X320 that I bought used in 2012. I don't remember buying that little cart behind it, but then again I've tried to erase most of the memories from my time in Arkansas.
My first "tractor" was a John Deere X320 that I bought used in 2012. I don't remember buying that little cart behind it, but then again I've tried to erase most of the memories from my time in Arkansas.
Blue2Orange
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BX2380 with LA344S & QH05. SB1051. SG0554. BB1248. RB0560, Vassar dirt bucket
'01, a real tractor. Not a riding lawn mower. Of course some consider my new BX a "toy" tractor. Side by side against a cat2 machine does make it looks like a toy. But then the cat2 machine against my local dairy farmers huge 4x4 machines makes them look like a toy. All relative to needs. Meets my current and probably future needs just fine. Trail and gravel driveway maintenance and firewood harvesting. Love the quick attach, QH, and the claw grapple. Sure makes life easy.
Old Machinist
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Kubota LX3310 cab, JD 4310, NH 575E cab backhoe, JD F725, Swisher 60", etc.
I drove my first tractor, a Farmall Super A, in 1960. I was 8 years old and had to stand to operate the pedals. My job was pulling tobacco sleds in the fields for the croppers. When I turned 12 my arms had grown long enough to hold a bunch of tobacco and I had to give up my cushy tractor driving job and get on the ground and crop.
shelkol
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bx-2200, Woods BH6000 backhoe, Tach-N-Go quick attach bucket, snow blower
Now that is an interesting looking jar. Looks like a honey jar, but with beer in it. Or is that honey, fermenting (yummy) or mead (even better)? And that leather surround... I think you have to explain that one
Fine tractor, by the way. With loader and backhoe, 4 wheel drive, the lot. Love it
My tractor is normally 2 wheel drive and if one is spinning (happens often) I am down to 0 wheel drive
xrocketengineer
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BX1880, FEL, Grapple, 36 in. Forks, 48in. MMM, Quick Spade, Ripper
When we moved to our 1 acre lot in 1988, I mowed with a self propelled mower and it was horrible. It would take all day. My next door neighbor saw me struggling one day and just to show off, he brought his garden tractor over and mowed most of my backyard in about a half hour. Shortly after that, I went and bought 38 in deck Craftsman lawn tractor that I used and sold after 22 years. That was followed by a 38 in deck Husqvarna that was not great and I would get stuck left and right. In 2019 bought the BX1880 and I have not gotten stuck yet. I wish I had bought a BX years earlier.
Blue2Orange
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BX2380 with LA344S & QH05. SB1051. SG0554. BB1248. RB0560, Vassar dirt bucket
Regarding 1st tractor, but not me. Friend is using his Grand or Great Grand's old tractor that has one of those sucide crank handles to start it. Unsure how old or what model. Anyone know when the last crank start tractors were made. He uses it for mowing his field and a bit of plowing.
2000, when I bough the 1 acre lot next door. 1st was a '57 A-C D-14, $500 with 3F plow, rear blade and loader. Took 2 weeks to get it unstuck, has run fine ever since. Have bought/used/ sold 10-12 tractors since, most A-C , as well as a GleanerA. Used it to harvest rye one year and oats another. Lot was a little crowded. Yes they all started,ran, did chores. Sadly sold the property, had to sell all but the original D-14. The GleanerA I gave away as a birthday present to local farmer friend.
NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
If we’re counting toy tractors, probably about 1968. Still have it but it’s at my Dad’s old house on a dresser in what used to be his office and I don’t have a pic. May add one later if I’m down there in the next couple days. It’s missing a front wheel and the die cast operator lost his head somewhere so it’s the headless horseman driving a CUT that looks like it was used primarily by one of those flip flop guys in the third world tractor abuse videos.
Around 1974, at about 8yr old, started doing some lawn mowing with this thing. Pennsylvania Panzer from, I believe, sometime in the early 60’s. Of course it was my Dad’s, not mine.
Shortly after, still 8yr old, started driving this 2N, 8N, 9N junkyard combo that’s topped off with a Ferguson hood. It didn’t have the feedback rod position control or cargo box or any seat cover when I started operating it. Had a little resonator instead of a muffler. Had the same oil soaked brakes that didn’t work worth a crap first day I got on it in ‘74 and last day I got on it in 2022 when it left for a new home. Of course that was my Dad’s, too; at least it was until he passed.
First lawn tractor I owned was 1988. All I recall about it was it was emerald green, was a low end pile of sheet metal masquerading as a “lawn tractor”, and it didn’t run so I got it for $25. Didn’t take much to get it running. No pic. Couldn’t afford luxuries like a camera in 1988.
Used my father’s tractors, employers’ tractors, and a few other people’s tractors but didn’t own one until August 2019. Father’s tractors just weren’t suited to the current needs of the property where he and I lived beside each other, so I stopped by our local Kubota dealer and brought this one home. Operated Dad’s tractors for decades. He operated mine a few times in the little bit of time he had left after I got it. (That’s him, not me.)
Edit: Same Ford N when Dad was a young man and I was a baby.
Around 1974, at about 8yr old, started doing some lawn mowing with this thing. Pennsylvania Panzer from, I believe, sometime in the early 60’s. Of course it was my Dad’s, not mine.
First lawn tractor I owned was 1988. All I recall about it was it was emerald green, was a low end pile of sheet metal masquerading as a “lawn tractor”, and it didn’t run so I got it for $25. Didn’t take much to get it running. No pic. Couldn’t afford luxuries like a camera in 1988.
Used my father’s tractors, employers’ tractors, and a few other people’s tractors but didn’t own one until August 2019. Father’s tractors just weren’t suited to the current needs of the property where he and I lived beside each other, so I stopped by our local Kubota dealer and brought this one home. Operated Dad’s tractors for decades. He operated mine a few times in the little bit of time he had left after I got it. (That’s him, not me.)
Edit: Same Ford N when Dad was a young man and I was a baby.
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