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So who has the oldest running family tractor?

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My 1935 JD B has been in the family since 1940. I play on it as a child and so have my grand children. I know where is has been since 1940 and it was used on my grand fathers farm in Seneca OK
 
1936 or 7 D-4 Cat and 53 H both bought new by Grandpa and still here. The H is a daily user for dad and the D-4 Needs work on the littler engine for it to start then I will need to clean the fuel tank. I guess I should pull the fuel tank clean and then keep full of fuel.
 
A long ways from being the oldest one here but I am very fortunate to have my grandaddy's 1955 JD 40S. I was with him when he bought it.
 
For me it would be that 44 2N Ford Dad bought new when I was 9 months old but it is in retirement now as I no longer have a place to keep it or store it so it is at a friends place.
 
1945 JD BR purchased in 1991 2 miles from home in November, one of the coldest tractor drives I ever had. Still have Dad's 1951 MH 44, its not running and in temporary retirement.
 
I am still looking for my dad's first new tractor, a 1943 Farmall H, serial number 137049. Would love to have it or one very close!!!!!!!!!!!
 
1920 Fordson. My grandparents traded a bull Holstein calf for it sometime in the 1930s. I was told who it came from but was stupid and did not write the name down
 
Mine is my 1955 IH 300 utility, bought with 75 hours on it in 1956, the year I was born. It now has 7700+ hours on it. Growing up, I can remember driving it with less than 1000 hours. I put probably close to half the hours on the meter, including 2000 since it has been mine. I was in the seat when the meter turned 2000, 4000, 6000, and 7000, bush hogging at the 2, 4, and 6 marks. Dad and my Uncle traded a 1953 Ford Jubilee for it. Both tractors were loader tractors. My cousin's husband has the 1952 Ford 8n that was bought new. The 300u now only gets used about 45-60 hours per year. Mark.
 
We have Grandads Farmall 100 that was bought new in October of 1957. Serial # 16297 delivered to mailbox # 297. It has done everything imaginable from heavy tillage with a 2 bottom Mc Cormick 214 plow, cultivating, row running, pto work, transplanting, and endless tobacco spraying and everything else involved with a baccer crop. It's the last original tractor for the farm that still remains. Plan for it to stay around awhile longer.
 
1942 Farmall M bought factory new. Mom's father's Farmall H guessed to be around the same age but long gone.
 
1938 Graham bradley row crop, grandpa bought on Sept 11, 1938 as a demonstrator so he could sell them. But grandpa couldn't sell such an unconventional tractor despite many demonstrations and display s at county fairs and such. So grandpa gradually got more and more custom farming jobs, which was perfect for a tractor with 20 mph road gear in the 1930s

Grandpa kept demonstrating in front of sceptical audiences year after year of plowing, logging, belt work, land clearing, spraying, dusting, combining, baling and being rented out to other farmers. Many thousands of hours later, still going strong, engine has never been out, original crankshaft, waterpump, generator, starter, radiator, gauges, etc
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I have a 1941 John Deere B bought new by my grandfather. It was the only tractor he ever had. I still use it to rake hay. We have a two row mounted cultivator for it too. Hydraulic lift type.
 
Well I can't beat 1935 for sure. I do have a 51 Deere A dad bought new, a 54 Deere R my step mother's dad bought new and a 1960 630 Dad bought new. I have a 35 A Deere dad bought in 1950 but it certainly was not new. The 35 A is a tractor dad drove when he was a hired man for a farmer during the war but he didn't know this was the A he drove till 40 years later.
 
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