[AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?

[Mike W]

Mike,

Great photos of the 2N restoration. Thanks for sharing.

mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] When did you start collecting old tractors?


>I moved to our rural location in 1970 and quickly realized that I needed 
> something more than a walk-behind rotary mower to deal with grass, 
> weeds, and snow. A friend gave me an old David Bradley two-wheel tractor 
> with a sickle bar and scraper blade. I limped along with that for about 
> a year and decided I needed something a little more robust and 
> comfortable, so we bought a brand new Economy Jim Dandy with mower deck 
> and blade, which worked OK. Then a neighbor asked me if I wanted to buy 
> her uncle's "old farm tractor". At 90 years old, he had been using it to 
> farm his property, fallen off of it, and died. It turned out to be a 
> 1955 Farmall Cub with a Fast hitch and all kinds of implements - 
> cultivators, plow, fertilizer spreader, disks, seeder, flail mower, etc. 
> Unfortunately, when he fell off, he had been spreading fertilizer, and 
> the neighbors pushed the tractor into the shed with the hopper still 
> half full. The fertilizer had rotted out the bottom of the spreader, but 
> everything else was fine. The only thing I didn't have was a rotary 
> mower. I still have that tractor, and it still runs like a top, but 
> since then a whole bunch of old tractors "followed me home" (on the back 
> of my trailer). I ended up selling the fast hitch and all the implements 
> to a gentleman from MA who is still using them to do vegetable farming 
> with a 1952 Cub that I sold him.
> 
> Most of the various tractor I own or have owned are shown here: 
> <http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/>, as well as some of my other hobby 
> and professional stuff.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> When did you start collecting old tractors?
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