Can you remember When????

[Alleyyooper]

Can you or are you old enough to remember when tractor dealers brought a tractor to the farm to demastrate?
I remember, 1957 dad was shopping for a new tractor. The MM dealer brought a 445 with a three bottom three point attached plow to our farm. We were plowing a field getting it ready to plant winter wheat. It had been a dry August and the soil was clay, that MM not only plowed the ground but turned a furrow 8 inches deep. I remember dad and the dealer measureing it. Dad told me to run it since I would be using it the most. It needed weights more than it had on the front since at the end of the field the front came up sooner than the plow.
I have always had a warm place in my heart for the 445. Some day I'll find the right one and own it. Dad never bought a new tractor then, are you old enough to remember the resession of 1958?

[johndeereL100]

I remember when Dad bought and H Farmall and when the dealer delivered it, he brought an H Farmall pedal tractor for me at no charge. I still have the pedal tractor. That was in 1950.

[Mickey]

Don't have to have a very good memory for that. When I bought the Cub 2 yrs ago the dealer brought the tractor out twice. Didn't like the small deck on it the first time out. I guess it all depends upon where you live. We're still small enough that we have 2 real tractor/impliment dealers in town.

When I was in the custom haying business several decades ago, dealer brought out equipment to try and buy.

Don't recall any recession in 58 and that's the yr I graduated from HS. Seems time were good, at least where I lived.

[bear]

i don't remember any recesion in 58 but then in 58 my mother was only 10 13 years away from having me. the 445 is a gutsy little tractor for its size mm's always seem to have a very responsive governor

[Argee]

Yes...just a few years ago when they dropped off my FNH for me to look at...then called a couple of weeks later to ask me what I thought.

[jdkubotamurray]

Best memory I had was Dad buying a couple of used MF30's, and pricing some new Ford 2000's and 3000's at the dealer (gee they were cheap comparitively then) in the early 70s Oldest I have had were a pair of '64 Ford 4000's, one gas with PS, other Diesel without. The Gas model I got with a TN hobby farm I bought in 1986.

[mgood]

Alleyooper; Dad had this also done on our old homeplace; M&M brought a UTS special; The IHC Dealer brought a model; the Allis Chalmer dealer brought a model disremember what model; at any rate the AC was advertized to out pull the Minnie; the minnie worked a 3-14 moldboard fairly well in the black gumbo at the south end of the place; the IHC represented did a fair job; would not work with the Minnie; as far as the Model of AC; it would not handle 2-16s worth mention; the embarressed AC dealer limped home; and Poppa bought a new Minnie.. The dissapointing thing is I cant remember what year that was.. I Do remember Dad talking about the cotton drying up due to drought here in OK. the year being 1957.. I can't remember the recession in particular; My folks brought us kids up in a way as if the depression of the 30's had never ended..

[DYT4000]

Here's a Cub field day....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/dos0711/IHfieldday.jpg

[shawn01754]

anyone know anything about the first backhoes, and who made them. Iam sure they had to do some digging to build those farm houses.

[06toro]

dug by hand. Also horse if you had one.

[Alleyyooper]

Yup a good many got dug with a team and slip scraper. Think of the incline where the scraper with a full load of dirt went up to ground level. that became the celler door area outside the old farm house.
The family with a scraper and a team of horses could work off some of their taxes by working on the roads near by the farm too.

[bontai Joe]

Yup a good many got dug with a team and slip scraper. Think of the incline where the scraper with a full load of dirt went up to ground level. that became the celler door area outside the old farm house.
The family with a scraper and a team of horses could work off some of their taxes by working on the roads near by the farm too.

I had a great uncle that told stories of working off part of their taxes by shoveling snow off the roads... that's right, I said shoveling. Can you imagine John and Jane Surburbia doing that today? :ROF

[Alleyyooper]

There are a few who would clean snow off the roads to reduce their taxes. Me for one. I sure wouldn't let it go for days on end to get the road cleared.
Is a farmer up the road from us whos wife is a nurse. We get a major storm dump a foot on us and he would blade the road all the way to the main road about 2 miles so she could get to work. They told him he had to stop. :sidelaugh But they make sure and clean the road with in a day now as he read them the riot act and didn't hold back how he felt about them.

[forkz]

i don.t know the exact year or if it was first backhoe or not but i know long mfg was making them in the early 60.s they use to have a plant here it's farmtrac now thanx wayne

[JWC3232]

the year was 1965 dad and granpa bought adairyfarm in northern ont
they had 5 tractors and not one could pull the bailer jd 2010 2 n9s caseva
massey hariss 33 they put the word out they where buying new tractors
ih dealer brought out a 434 david brown cant remember model and ford
brought a 2000 dexta diesel and a3000 diesel the fords one
they traded the whole bunch off and got the fords and some equip
loader, 3pth 9'' mower,and a snow blower i was 6 or 7 and thought this was
neat all the trucks hauling in new equip and leaving with the old then i got
a surprise another truck came in with a allis ca they told me that this was
my tractor for raking etc i was one very proud kid we had those tractors
for 30 years the fords are still working and running last i heard
i believe the total price back then was 12000.00 prices have shur gone
up jim

[catman]

i remember uncle had a 806 hydro we had a 4 bottom set of 16 s it it was a auto trans and pullin the plows the floor would almost burn your feet ,and it burn a lot of fuel , he called the local ih dealer and said to bring us something better , and man did they a 1973 1066 turbo 10000 dollars all i could think of was how are we going to pay for it . but i was in love , man what a tractor . to this day i was 10 years old and i still remeber my first ride and my first drive , it was huge and it destroyed ever thing we hooked to it , but it was allosome what a machine , it would pull a 2 row and a wagon and not even smoke , where did life go . that was the day

[cordes]

There are some great stories on this thread. I certainly can't remember as I was born in 80'.

[FarmerCoke]

i don't remember any recesion in 58 but then in 58 my mother was only 10 13 years away from having me. the 445 is a gutsy little tractor for its size mm's always seem to have a very responsive governor

Hi Bear. I got a belt pulley for my UTU, and got it cleaned up and ready to paint before I install it. Do you know where I can find a can of aerosol spray paint in Prairie Gold? As you recall, this is a 1952 - would that be Praire Gold #1, or #2, or #3? BTW, I have used it to rake all of my hay this summer - runs great after 57 years!! What a tractor!! Coke

[440roadrunner]

Recession? 58? Hell, I was only 10 years old. Wouldn't a' knowed recession if I'd met 'im.

We had what I guess you'd call a "small family farm." One cow, later two, and a beef "for later." Had chickens a few years. Our main tractor as I grew up in the 50's and 60's was a FARMALL REGULAR. A man's tractor. When I was "old enough" to try to operate the thing, I used to scoot my a$$ forward on the seat and clamp my legs around the wheel. Only way to keep it tamed. Even got away from my Dad a couple of times.

[Cariboo Harry]

One of my wife's fondest memories is that when the dealer delivered his new Minneapolis Moline tractor 55 plus years ago, he gave her a matching toy tractor. I have searched in vain for a similar toy and to date have been unsuccessful. Help! It would really make her day.

I am also looking for hi res pictures of the tractor. see my post at:

http://www.mytractorforum.com/showthread.php?t=102483

[Tall Grass]

The guys i worked for had me test several of the new tractors and disc's out. Those dealers for Versatile and John Deere were madder than hell about it too. My boss just told everyone that i am the one that uses them more than anyone else so he should know. There logic was to keep[ a tractor under my butt all they could due to my physical condition. I did get over a lot of ground.

[Kbeitz]

I lived on a Christmas tree farm... We had 4 HG-Olivers and one DC Case tractor... I still have one HG...

[johndeere]

I remember tractors being brought out for a demo and still do that to this day.Dad demoed a John Deere 5020 and bought it.He demoed a Allis Chalmers D-21 and he passed on it.Also combines and plows and other emplements have been demoed on are farms.Some were bought and some were not.

[Steiger Tech]

I work at a Case IH dealership and I went out on a demo this week.I go on prolly 5 demos a month. Demo'd a brand spankin Steiger Just this week.Also new Magnums,We sold 5 or 6 of them this month alone.