LOST FARMALL?

luv2wrench · Oct 15, 2010

Heres a good topic. Anyone know of or ever seen an old farmall (or any type) that was bought used very very little or never at all? Kind of like if someone would have bought an 1953 Corvette and drove it home and put it up on blocks with 10 miles on it? To see an factory, unused Farmall would be very interesting. A tractor Time capsule if you will.

Bill in NJ · Oct 15, 2010

I've never seen a factory mint tractor, but there is a Case/IH dealer in New Berlinville, PA that has saved a diecast model of all IH tractors from a very long time ago up to the present. They even have a couple of 'F' models. The dealer is Erb and Henry. Pretty cool collection. If you are ever in the area stop in, it's really great.

glennster · Oct 15, 2010

neighbor when i was little bought a new i-h mounted picker 2ME i think, in 1958, used it that year, picked about 100 acres and parked it in the shed and never used it again. he passed away about 10 years ago and the kids junked it. altho covered in dust, it was like brand new under the dirt. wish i would have known they were gonna scrap it.

luv2wrench · Oct 15, 2010

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN QUITE A SIGHT AT A FARM SHOW!!! Thanks for the comment.

John M · Oct 15, 2010

Theres tell of an AC G that was delivered in a crate in pieces to a dealer somewhere, and sat in the crate until the late 90s, when the dealership closed. The crate had been covered with a tarp for years, and the guy who bought the building found it and put it together.

Seems I recall someone on here found a W4 that had been in a barn for almost its whole life untouched. I think it was one of those things like the owner bought it, 2 weeks later he dies, and his wife never knew he bought it or something like that. The guys grandson was the one who posted if I recall....

FC Andy · Oct 15, 2010

My Uncle has an Allis Chalmers CA that he bought from the original family that owned it. Supposedly only was farmed with for 3 or 4 years and then was only used to work gardens after that. Paint is faded, but it is a tight little tractor otherwise. I've also got a friend with a super C (he's 51) that he bought on an auction 4 miles down the road from him. Supposedly it was a 1 owner tractor, and he didn't even know it was there! He never saw it used. So,it also was only lightly used, it is a very nice little tractor to use. I wish mine were that nice.

randy hall · Oct 15, 2010

not quite a farmall but a family up the road from me has a last year scout that only has the delivery miles on it , about two hundred.

bill mart · Oct 15, 2010

saw a story on a john deere 60 that was delivered and if i remember right the battery went bad and the owner wanted it replaced by the dealer,who refused and it sat in a barn until the barn fell down around it until someone rescued it and it now remains in the condition it was discovered in. Bill M.

james rumph · Oct 15, 2010

I had three tractors at our local cruse. This guy comes up and asks if i would be intrested in a 54 cub.

He tells me he got it and all it's extras from the orignal owner. He then tells me it has been parked for 26 years in a barn .

We have all herd these stories !!!!

Well i went and looked "WOW" it was for real .

It still has its orignal seat "perfect" its orignal tires "brand new" etc etc etc .

The gas tank inside was show room new. It turned over but hadn't run in a long time.

Anyways the guy tell me he has to have $5000.00 for it all , i laughed hard ..

I told him to come on here and see what there really going for and to call me .

Well one month later and $2500.00 got me another cub in great shape.

The valves were stuck but after some work it runs great and the trans is dead sillent , which is unherd of in cubs .

So these finds are still out there just keep looking.

Roger46 · Oct 15, 2010

This is not a tractor either, but I went to a farm auction several years ago and they were selling all this old machinery that this guy had kept in his shed for many years. He had binders, threshing machine, etc. One thing that really stuck out was a corn binder that was basically new. It was a McCormick and the paint was still on the face of the wheel (except the spot where it sat all those years). Apparently he had bought it and only cut a few acres and then just parted it in the pole barn where it accumulated years of dust. If I remember right I think it sold for like $10,000. Roger

CCer · Oct 15, 2010

Wengers, Meyerstown Pa. have a New old mid-fifties Ferguson tractor in their showroom. I think it's showing only tenths, less than an hour on it. Original owner died before he got to use it. Widow kept it a long time after that, before selling.

gregk · Oct 15, 2010

Once again not a Farmall, but as the story goes in the sixties dad and grandpa went in together on a two row Ford picker to mount on their 6000 commanders. Well they only used it one year and then bought a combine and that picker still sits in the shed as it has for 30+ years. Grandpa passed away in August but they both still had the tractors and I am hoping to talk dad into mounting it on grandpas tractor and putting it in the local show next year

Anonymous-0 · Oct 15, 2010

In Seguin, Texas, the dealer had a 9n ford that never was sold. In Winnsboro, Texas, the ford salvage yard had a 8n with maybe 10 hours on it.
Mint.

ISU JD · Oct 16, 2010

John Deere Tractor works in Waterloo, IA has the last 4020 ever made has 26 hours on it. Was at the Deere fall fest in Sept. on display there was the first 530. I can't remember the hours on it but it too was owned by Deere and Co. Neither tractor has seen a day of farm work in their lives. Both looked like just rolled off the line.

IH fan · Oct 16, 2010

(quoted from post at 02:10:36 10/16/10) John Deere Tractor works in Waterloo, IA has the last 4020 ever made has 26 hours on it. Was at the Deere fall fest in Sept. on display there was the first 530. I can't remember the hours on it but it too was owned by Deere and Co. Neither tractor has seen a day of farm work in their lives. Both looked like just rolled off the line.

I remember touring the Waterloo plant in the '50s with a 4-H group. They "broke in" the tractors by hooking the belt pulleys to a line shaft that helped power the plant. Quite a sight with several new 2 cylinder JDs lined up and running.

Pete76NY · Oct 16, 2010

If that is the 30 I actually found that. traded it in on a new Kubota when I worked at Goodrich Implement in Johnson City, NY...Boss sold it to Carl Wenger.

mkirsch · Oct 16, 2010

The 5488 last tractor manufactured in the Farmall plant is in the condition you're talking about, and probably always will be. It's been in a museum since day 1, hasn't it?

It would've been neat if IH had kept serial 501 from each model they produced, in a museum.

Betcha dollars to donuts that there are still several "new old" Farmalls sitting in barns out there.

It'd be hard to tell on early tractors, whether they're low-hour, or if they're just well taken care of... No hour meter.

ramtuff · Oct 16, 2010

I know of one.There was an very old IH dealership in Sebree,Ky. It was 560 Farmall gas,it sat in the back of his shop for years on end.It had 1 hr on it.He died a few years ago.It was sold at auction Don"t remember what it brought.A friend of mines dad bought it.I talked him a couple weeks ago,said it has 13 hrs on it now.He takes to shows.I think its going to be on Max Arnold show on rfd,tv. It also had a lot of new horse drawn tools also.Plow,double shovels,rastis,cultivaters an etc.All was still in the original shipping crates.

D Slater · Oct 16, 2010

Last I heard the 5488 had 60+ hours on it.

Ian T in AB · Oct 16, 2010

I went to a auction last spring by stony plain, ther was a caseih 2294 with about 300 hrs and a belarus, cant remember model #, with less than 300 hrs, the owner retired after he bought them, both tractors still had the plastic on the seats, the paint still shined, the outer duals were taken off and never used on the 2294, both tractors were kept in a heated shop and started up twice a year to keep the cobwebs out of them

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