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Post by parallaxbill on Mar 5, 2024 17:26:54 GMT -5
I figure a bunch of you guys have and use vintage tractors? What do you have and how do you use them? I own a 1965 Massey Ferguson 135 with the 3 cylinder Perkins diesel that for now use for Bush hogging but will soon have a 6' tiller for putting in my garden and food plots.     |
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Post by bradshaw on Mar 5, 2024 17:42:45 GMT -5
I figure a bunch of you guys have and use vintage tractors? What do you have and how do you use them? I own a 1965 Massey Ferguson 135 with the 3 cylinder Perkins diesel that for now use for Bush hogging but will soon have a 6' tiller for putting in my garden and food plots. ***** The Massey-Ferguson 135 with Perkins 3 cylinder diesel is tough as a Missouri mule. Also available with 4 cylinder gas, which I have no experience with, except it takes a lot more fuel. Perkins diesels are tough. For its weight & size, don’t know of a stronger tractor. As its is 2-wheel drive, with manual axle lock, I always ran weighted tires, and Canadian ring chains in winter. It’s light for pulling a hay baler in hill country. David Bradshaw |
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Post by kings6 on Mar 5, 2024 19:08:31 GMT -5
Spent many hours on a Massey 235 with the gas engine flailing grandpas filbert orchards. Boy did I get tired of getting whacked in the face by branches.
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Post by clintsfolly on Mar 5, 2024 19:31:33 GMT -5
My Dad gave his 1976 Kabota L225! I use it to brush hog fire breaks/ shooting lanes, drag out fire wood and to maintain the drives.
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 5, 2024 19:45:23 GMT -5
Spent many hours on a Massey 235 with the gas engine flailing grandpas filbert orchards. Boy did I get tired of getting whacked in the face by branches. Billy on our hunting lease got really whacked by a limb while bush hogging on his MF. imgur.com/a/jxZ6WUQ |
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Post by contender on Mar 5, 2024 21:27:01 GMT -5
I have a 1940's era Ford 2N tractor I need to re-home. I moved up to a JD 950 some years ago,, and the Ford just sits.
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Post by onegoodshot on Mar 5, 2024 21:52:56 GMT -5
Been on a tractor all day today. After church Sunday I started cutting trees off my main summer pasture fence. It has 3.3 miles of fence around it. Always having trees and limbs blowing down in the fence. Cut again all day yesterday and used the tractor to push the trees out of the pasture today. This weather is making the grass start to come in a little early. Usually it is the 3rd week of March before I quit feeding hay and kick them back in the summer pasture. I say bring on spring!! I have a MF 240, 263, and 563 that I do the farm work with. Have a 10ft tongue pull brush hog, two 3 pt hitch 8’ hogs and a small 5 footer as well. Have plows, discs, tillers, blades, scoops, ect just to give me a little therapy in this crazy world. Another tractor thread here on single actions by you has all my farmall and John deer toys. singleactions.proboards.com/thread/33821/tractors-guns |
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Post by aciera on Mar 5, 2024 23:48:13 GMT -5
We have a 35 the orchard owners dad bought new. Bought a truck and tractor that year. Both new!!!!
Unheard of for the Man.
Still has a 5’ mower on it for narrow rows
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Post by ncrobb on Mar 6, 2024 7:50:33 GMT -5
1950 8N Ford that belonged to my wife’s grandfather. It sat in a barn for 25+ years before it came to our place. Did some basic mechanical rehab and it did light farm duty until the wife bought a new JD in 2019. Now the 8N relaxes and does strolls around the fence line and down to the pond. She is retired.
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callshot
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Post by callshot on Mar 6, 2024 12:20:21 GMT -5
I grew up on a D4 Caterpillar with a 13 foot chisel plow behind. I did pull a couple of Caulkins rod weeders hooked side by side and sometimes two disks hooked in tandom . Had a sun roof but no cab. All on a dry farm and with some lava rock piles to manouver around. There was also no muffler on the exhaust pipe. I still can’t hear like I should. I only have one photo of it which I can’t find right now.
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Post by bigbore5 on Mar 6, 2024 16:39:54 GMT -5
Dad's got an 8N and I have spent many days on a 135 or 235
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Post by junebug on Mar 6, 2024 17:53:57 GMT -5
I grew up on a Farmall Super C. I now have Two Allis Chalmers a 1947 model C with Tricycle front end and a 1953 Model B with a wide front end.
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Post by sharps4590 on Mar 6, 2024 18:43:35 GMT -5
My first tractor was a WD Allis. Boy that thing was rough riding. Then I went through several Massey's, An 85 and a 235 oh, and a Ferguson 40. Finally I could afford newer stuff, a 2040 JD and bought new a 383 Massey. I used them until we sold the farm.
These days I have a '76 Ford, 3600 diesel. Rough as a cob but it does what little I need done.
Dad had a Ford Jubilee and the two farmers I worked for in school, one ran Farmall's and the other ran Massey's.
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Post by mhblaw on Mar 6, 2024 20:31:38 GMT -5
We have a 1958 Ford 518, I think, that we use at our lake place in MN to grade the 1/2 mile of private road with a DR scraper.
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Post by tja6435 on Mar 7, 2024 9:57:28 GMT -5
I have a 1954 John Deere Model 60, I primarily use it for tilling with a 48” tiller, 2 row spud planter and a 2 row spud digger.
When she’s at full throttle it is deafening, I always wear plugs or muffs, if one of the boys wants to ride, they 100% of the time have muffs on. I’ve always been impressed with the power a 2 cylinder, 321 cubic inch engine can produce, and how fast it’ll drain a 20 gallon tank at full throttle
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