[AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?

[Keith Kinney]

Interesting topic Farmer.  I started out as a kid driving a Ford 8N in the mid 60's. We then upgraded that to a 1956 Ford 600 but those were our working tractors.  I got my first hit and miss engine in 1973 or 4 and shortly thereafter got a 1938 John Deere G.  It was owned by a friend of the family and was purchased for $100.00. It had sat with the exhaust exposed and had about 2" of water in each cylinder.  But, we got it running and has been a great tractor.  It is all apart right now for a second restoration.  Not too long after getting the G we got a 1925 McCormick Deering 10-20, also for $100.00.  It wasn't stuck and after putting a hot mag on it and messing around with it we had it running in short order.  The over the years more followed, 1937 JD A, JD H, Farmall F-12, Case C, Gibson D, and a few more topping out at about a dozen tractors.  This past year we've thinned a few out that we probably would have never gotten around to fixing up. There's a few I'd someday like to have like a steel wheeled Fordson but that will have to wait until the kids are through college and the economy improves some. :-)  I have finally just about learned that you can't have them all. 
Keith
  

Keith Kinney
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