[AT] John Deere 430 special

[Spencer Yost]

Yep, that would be the one. In my original post I said 14 years, but now that I think about it my first inquiry to the gentleman had to have been 1998. So that's 18 years. It was gone definitely by 2008. One of the last times I saw it storm overwash and windblown sand had banked sand up against the wheels.

if memory serves, It was this list that clued me in as to what it was. I think I had posted about it and mentioned that the owner had put the wrong size rear wheels and tires on it. Someone posted back, and a couple of measurements and part numbers later we realized it was  not a normal standard tractor.


Spencer Yost

> On Aug 9, 2016, at 5:11 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Spencer, I think I saw that once! It was under a shed/parking area at 
> one of those beach stores. I'm pretty certain the one I'm talking about 
> was on Ocean Isle. Best I remember you turned left when you got to the 
> beach road and it wasn't far. If that is not the one all I can say are 
> what are the odds of 2 little Deeres being on the Outer Banks?
> 
> John Hall
> 
> 
>> On 8/8/2016 11:38 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> This post reminds me of the 330S I found about 14 years ago.  As Dean alludes,  inspection revealed a taller front axle and bigger rear wheels.  But definitely were not as high as the high crop.  In fact I thought it was just a standard at first glance. The folks around here called them the southern special.   I think Deere formalized this in the 430 line as the "V" tractor.  I'm pretty sure the bull gear housing was the same as any other 330.
>> 
>> Anyways It was sitting under cover but not more than 200 yards from the seashore. So as you can imagine it was rusting fast. I tried to buy it several times, but the owner just kept saying that it belonged to his grandfather and selling it "...would be like selling his grandfather". It sat there for another 6 years turning into a molten mess of rust.  One year I went by to see it, and it was gone. It was being stored on a piece of property not owned by the man who owned the tractor. The owner of the property ran a store on that property so I asked about it. He said it went to the scrap yard. I wonder how grandpa felt about going to a scrapyard.
>> 
>> I still wish I had been able to save that tractor.
>> 
>> For those of you here in North Carolina, the tractor was very close to Ocean Isle Beach.
>> 
>> Spencer Yost
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