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Re: What tractors paid for themselves?


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Posted by Richard G. on April 22, 2012 at 08:47:57 from (98.71.134.36):

In Reply to: What tractors paid for themselves? posted by olliekid on April 21, 2012 at 16:46:20:

1952 8N. Built 2 large farm ponds when bought new by my uncle. Sold to a man in town and a little while later my dad bought it and used it mowing pasture, custom spraying, pumping water for irrigation, plowing gardens and custom boring thousands of post holes in the late fifties and early sixties for 10 cents each. At Thanksgiving, my dad would mow lanes in 3 foot tall serecia and us boys and two uncles would stand at the end of the lanes with shotguns while daddy drug a long pole through the unmowed serecia while we shot the rabbits running out. Daddy used a 12 guage pump and would shoot from the tractor seat. Then used on 150 acres by two uncles to mow, drag land prepping for planting, dragging logs up to the sawmill, stretching woven wire fences, moving dirt with a scoop pan and a scrape blade. After they retired, it was given to me and gets used every week plowing, brush hogging, dragging logs, working in garden, mowing a couple of acres with the finish mower, pulling the same dirt scoop, pulling scrape blade, mowing hay with a JD #9 mower,hauling firewood up to shop and house and any job on the place something needs pulled around.
Rebuilt the engine 55 years ago for the first time when I was 14. Have rebuilt it 5 more times over the years. Repaired cam and quadrant in hydraulics last year. Plan on doing rear hubs and breaks this year.
I think it has paid for itself a few times.
Richard


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