[AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?

[charliehill]

Depending on how you define collect,  since I was 9 and my dad bought his 59 
D-10.  I inherited it when he died and have always had a tractor since. 
Sometimes they sat in the barn for years at a time but I've always had at 
least the 59 D-10.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?


> Leaving the farm at 18, whenever I got back for a few hours during my 20's
> and 30's I was on an old tractor every moment I could.  In 1977 at the 
> ripe
> age of 37 we moved to TN on to 7 acres of ' hill'.  I knew it had to be a
> wide front end. I found a 1948 (same year my wife was born) 8N for $600. 
> I
> put sleeves, pistons and rings in it that winter under a piece of plastic.
> She bush hogged for several years, then the hydraulic pump needed rebuilt,
> so I did.  I started buying my greens in 1990, a little MT. I wanted
> bigger!!  I sold the 8N for $2800 (with used bush hog, LOL) to finance my
> green.  I had a few B's, then bought a 520 and fixed it up. (fenders, top
> link, tires,etc) I had a 420 at the same time. I took both to Eagleville, 
> TN
> show. I wanted to sell the 420, this one guy kept pestering me about the
> 520. Finally on Saturday morning at 10:00, I shot him a price of  $3500,
> $1000 more than I had in it, CASH!. His 12 yr old son said, "Dad, such and
> such bank is open until noon". I learned a lesson, never put a price on it
> if you don't want to sell it.
>
> Moving back to IN in 96 on the lake, the herd had to be thinned.  I kept 
> the
> 420. I went to old engines because of space. Now that my son has 15 acres,
> he has a Ford Jubilee, I have a JD 420, 60, and a 931 Comfort King Case.
>
> I guess the answer is 1977.  Never restored one yet, just fixed them up 
> real
> good and USED them :))
>
> Paul - N. IN
>> Anyway, when did you start collecting?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Have you hugged your horses today?
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
>
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