Joppa’s First Tractor

[Wingnut]

Hearing the Shotgun blast of Dove Hunters brought me back to my youth. Dove hunting in Joppa Texas (http://www.mytractorforum.com/showthread.php?t=25988&highlight=joppa) with my friend Mike Knox; his grandfather bought the first tractor in northern Burnet County in 1935; it was a Case Model RC on steel.

The Tractor had been parked since the late 1950’s, but grandfather seal engine from water and always turned it over each month to keep it from seizing. It would have taken a few hours to get it running again.

No one was allowed to start that tractor! The last time the tractor was used it crippled Mike’s uncle David. In some freak accident David fail or was thrown off of it and crushed one side of his pelvis and upper thigh bone.

After accident Mike’s grandfather parked it and never used it again. We were not ever allowed to touch it, and nobody for sure should ever sit on it. Mike’s grandfather treated it like it was cursed. The tractor was sold after both of his grandparents died.

[Byron R]

Wow Wing::that tractor doesn't look like it has a curse.. ROF but i have been Dove Hunting in Miss. at my stepbrothers place....next to a corn field and shoot 1-2 hundred of then(8-10 guys)..and they didn't clean them just pullout the breast(mc nugget)out...bare handed...B, :trink40:

[caseman-d]

Tractor is in very good condition now. It surprises me that he would take the time to turn the engine over if he thought the tractor was cursed. There must have been something about the old tractor as to why he didn't let it become a rust pile. So did you buy it or did anyone in the family buy it?. The RC was hand crank and sometimes the tractor was left in gear. So a good staring tractor could start with turn of the crank. Anyways good looking tractor even if it is painted the wrong color. There is a picture of a RC almost identical to this one in Case Tractors book 2nd edition.
caseman-d

[Wingnut]

Tractor is in very good condition now. It surprises me that he would take the time to turn the engine over if he thought the tractor was cursed. There must have been something about the old tractor as to why he didn't let it become a rust pile. So did you buy it or did anyone in the family buy it?. The RC was hand crank and sometimes the tractor was left in gear. So a good staring tractor could start with turn of the crank. Anyways good looking tractor even if it is painted the wrong color. There is a picture of a RC almost identical to this one in Case Tractors book 2nd edition.
caseman-d

He was a very frugal germany he was the first generation Texans in his family. If anything happen the the Farmall H, he knew he could get the RC running quickly to work the farm, but he would have been the only one operating it.

The tractor was sold at and estate auction, don't know who got it.