My earliest recollection is of a team of horses called Tom and Topsy, and a stud colt named Harness. Topsy got old and was replaced by Dick. Later Dad bought a bigger team named Babe and Queen, he kept them until about 1958, the last couple of years they were used mostly in the woods, logging and sugaring.
Before I was born, I know he had a T-20 crawler, no blade or winch, what was called a grasshopper.
In 1949 he bought a Farmall C, it had been used as a demonstrator, (not a White one), and somebody had rolled it over and broken the front end off. The dealer repaired it and sold it to Dad. Tractor, two way plows, three bar side delivery rake, and a green crop loader, $2500, and he gave them $25 down on it.
Shortly after that he bought a John Deere 40 crawler with a blade and winch, that he used for logging. He got behind on payments, and the dealer took it back.
A couple ofyears later he bought a John Deere 420 crawler which he kept until 1961, when he traded it on a 1010. The 1010 was an early model and a hard luck machine, he traded that the next year for a newer one that I still have.
In 1961 he also bought a Super C Farmall, a sprayer and a set of disk harrows, all of which I still have, but the sprayer is rotting away in the wreckage of a tumbledown shed.
1964 or '65 he bought a Farmall M, which was our big horse until I got the MF 175D in the early '90's. I still have, and use, the M as well.
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