When did your addiction start?

mb58 · Mar 12, 2012

I see various post on here at times where someone will say something like..."and that's when my tractor addiction started." or "...been in love with tractors ever since." Well I got to thinking. At what point in time did you realize you were a tractor lover? For me it started so young I can't remember the exact beginning. I played with toy tractors as a child and when I got old enough to operate the real ones, I have never stopped. I know some people love cars like an additional family member, but with me, it's tractors. Maybe that's why I have ten of my own.

thurlow · Mar 12, 2012

Can't imagine loving an inaminate object; for me, they're a tool. Spend 40 or 50 thousand hours in the seat of 'em and report back..........

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2012

Agreed that they are a tool. But... they seem to be the one tool on the farm that I never get tired of working on.

mb58 · Mar 12, 2012

I surpassed that number of hours 25 years ago, bub.

oldtanker · Mar 12, 2012

(quoted from post at 09:09:55 03/12/12) Can't imagine loving an inaminate object; for me, they're a tool. Spend 40 or 50 thousand hours in the seat of 'em and report back..........

LOL spoken like a true farmer!

Rick

Bill Krosnicki · Mar 12, 2012

Well, they tell me "tractor" was my first word! As a young kid I'd go with my dad to other farms and the first thing that caught my attention was the old rusted hulks sitting out behind the barn, or in the corner of a shed with the wheels sunk down in the dirt, or sitting out as a yard ornament. As soon as I was able I started dragging them home. BTW I also put several thousand hours a year on modern tractors as well.

thurlow · Mar 12, 2012

bub? Only my friends could call me that and you obviously ain't one. Go ahead and degenerate this thread with some name-calling and watch it get poofed...........

pat sublett · Mar 12, 2012

IN 1952, Painted tractors in AG shop in high school.

bjb in TX from Ne · Mar 12, 2012

Since before I could walk. Grandparents and uncles would give me rides when we would visit the farm. It has been a chronic terminal condition ever since.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2012

addictions are bad for you..

mb58 · Mar 12, 2012

I'm sure we can be friends. See you just don't know me, but I am just as big a smart mouth as you appear to be. We could make a great team on here. Have a nice day, bub.

James Howell · Mar 12, 2012

Probably started with "<a href="http://youtu.be/VXHyfUbUf00">Old John</a>" Nancy's 48A.

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Back in July of 1993 we drove my 65 Chevy 1/2 ton truck towing the 16ft utility trailer to Gosport, IN to get her dad's John Deere 48A.

Now we've got 13 antique JD tractors.

ihredo4 · Mar 12, 2012

Mine started in April of 83 when I bought my first tractor a 1945 Farmall M Serial Number 99090. I sold it in 89 to keep it from sitting and "falling" apart. I boought and sold many others and finally liquidated in 96 area to provide for my family. In 2001 I went thru a divorce and started back in to the tractors. I am up to about 15 now and figure if they EVER treat me the way the old nag did I would just pull the battery and let the Bit^$ sit there and think aboout what it did. LOL Seriously though in 2003 I bought my O-4 and as funds allow I will keep doing what I am doing and enjoy their company.

johndeereman · Mar 12, 2012

Always wanted to be a farmer and still do but needing to support a wife and 3 kids make it hard to do so I work for others and just do a hobby type farm. I worked for all the neighboring farms growing up they paid me if that"s what you wanna call it but I woulda done it for just the experience which I got lots of. Every one I worked for I always wanted to use the oldest tractor they had guess I didn"t like seeing them sit. I would chose the jd a over the 3020"s or the Ollie 88 diesel over the ford 7700 and the dc cases over the David brown 1210 and so on yes I drove them all just prefer the old ones. Like my wimmens the same way lol wife 7years older

730d se · Mar 12, 2012

I have a black & white picture of me sitting in the pan seat of a 1941 Allis Chalmers WC. I was about 3 years old and could barely reach the steering wheel.
I have not been without a tractor since then, collection started about 12 years ago.

dpendzic · Mar 12, 2012

Bought my first Cat---an R2--- when i was 16 in 1962.I was in high school and had to do a lot of convincing to my mother!!

RayP(MI) · Mar 12, 2012

Probably about the age of ten, and got the first tractor driving assignment, here in the farm.

barnE · Mar 12, 2012

Started when we bought the house in the country with some tractors. The people moved out and took all the tractors. What nerve. Had to buy some replacements. One led to another, cub, A, 9n, 4000 ford. That's all folks. Dave

Paul from MI · Mar 12, 2012

Can't remember, musta been about 60 years ago. I couldn't wait to drive dad's old Allis even if it was cultivating corn first time over.

OliverGuy · Mar 12, 2012

We brought home grandpa"s old M from one of my uncle"s in the 80"s. It started then when I was 12 or so. I read that whole manual and you couldn"t pull me off that tractor. Then I saw that my great grand dad on the other side farmed with two 77"s for a LONG time. Hard to get out of my system now.

Jason the Red · Mar 12, 2012

Age 4, riding with my grandpa on his H Farmall through their apple orchard. I had to buy myself one as soon as it was feasible. I will own his too, as soon as my uncle quits hogging it and sells it to me!!!

Bill(Wis) · Mar 12, 2012

As an old phriend, I can only say, ATTA BOY!!!(;>))

donjr · Mar 12, 2012

Probably about when I was four and rode home on our new MT John Deere with my dad in 1952. Then, and what I remember more, was when I drove the pickup tractor, a B, while the older men picked up hay in the field. I was 7 or 8, and big enough to operate the clutch lever when I was told to pull forward. Then, I started hauling manure when I was about ten. That was on a B and a 50. That was a long time ago now.

DeltaRed · Mar 12, 2012

When I was less than 2 years old on the seat of this tractor...

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