[AT] A CHALLENGE - - Can you name the first three tractors you drove?

[Bill Boyd]

The first tractor I drove was a 1944 farmall A. I still have it.
This was the tractor that replaced the horses on the farm.
The second was a John Deere H raking hay for a neighbor.
The third was a Farmall Super C gathering corn for a neighbor.
I drove the tractor pulling two trailers in tandem while my uncle and 
the neighbor gathered the corn by hand and threw it into the trailers.

This is not counting a two wheel Simplicity garden tractor my father 
bought new in 1948.
Which is actually the first tractor I drove and the one I drove the 
most growing up.

The first tractor I personally owned was a small tractor I built out 
of auto parts using a how to magazine. It was called a Power Pup. 
This was in the early sixties.

The second tractor was a three cylinder 1948 VAC Case I bought about 1980.
It had thrown a rod and the PO removed what was left of the rod and 
piston and the push rods, put a piece of inner tube and a hose clamp 
around the crank journal and run it on three cylinders.
It was stuck of course with a cracked block. I freed it up and got it 
running but the front end bounced up and down like a sewing machine. 
I rebuilt the engine and used the old Case for over 15 years. Wish I 
still had it.
  I now have a 1972 Massey Ferguson 165D, 1944 Farmall A, Simplicity 
B two wheel garden tractor, and a 1939 Farmall A project tractor ( 
pics are on the ATIS forum, sadly its still in the same condition). 
Where did I put them round tuits?

Bill in N.E.TX


At 08:15 AM 12/15/2009, you wrote:
>Lots of great responses here. Now the challenge. I'm recognizing the
>names of all of the guys that have responded so far as "regulars". I'm
>throwing out a challenge to all of the readers that do not normally
>post to jump in and answer this and the earlier question about when
>you started collecting old tractors.
>
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