Posted by Billy NY on February 20, 2013 at 07:58:12 from (72.226.79.200):
In Reply to: JD 2010 posted by Larrystinescorner on February 20, 2013 at 06:41:08:
Actually the first tractor I ever sat on, not sure the year, but it was before the ford dealership, we had a JD 2010, wide front, with a yellow front end loader on it and somewhere there are some partial photos of it. Along with the 2010, was a JD manure spreader, with the auger/teeth type beater.
We used to have 2 huge hay barns, one was a drive thru, with a huge mow on one side, cow stanchions and parlor on the other, with a heavy timber framed floor, tongue and groove wood floor above, for more storage. On the back side the hill I live on now starts to slope up and one of the hired hands while spreading manure on the hillside/field, ended up with the tractor on the 2nd floor, not sure about the details, all I recall is where the hole was and the bottom of that hole was the 2nd floor. It makes no sense as to how the heck that is even possible, I did not see the tractor and spreader hanging, my father had somehow gotten it out. I will have to ask him about that again.
Same time period, I climbed on that tractor, got it into neutral, believe it was a console shift, with the maze thing as I recall, rolled it to a little raised area near the driveway and it stopped went about 20 feet, not good, parents were not very cognizant of being parents, I am truly lucky and thankful to be here given things like this and similar that happened when I was that age, I hate to say it, but I think they were complete idiots then, well I know it to be honest, reflecting back, but certainly carry no chip, just that pre-school kids should not be on JD 2010's fooling with the levers LOL !!!!!
Front end loader protected the 2010, was no damage to it, not sure why he got rid of it, I believe it was gas not diesel, could be wrong though.
Years later, when the horses were gone and the place had no activity, neighbor dairy farmer who had planted the fields for years, had cut back and stopped for a few years wanted to plant the fields again, our '64 4000 ford S-O-S, a friend of dads changed the trans fluid, put the wrong type back in, that was the end of my favorite tractor and to get the fields ready, I had to cut with a narrow 2010 and a rotary, over 50 acres.
One memory was the round rock that the mower blade whacked out from under the deck and went up the back side of the tractor, I could feel the air, it went over the hedgerow, into a long abandoned field of marginal ground. It would have been like getting hit with a cannon ball on the back of the head. It was a bush hog brand mower, not sure what the deal was, no safety chains, plates hanging, that tractor was really scary on side hills, though not too extreme, just enough, and my darned father never once taught me about rolling over and any of that, I distinctly remember the exact place and I just dropped a bunch of trees there, where I first experienced the "pucker" factor on that borrowed JD 2010. I did not like the tractor because it was just too high, and really not suited for some areas on this land, I do recall both this one and the other one ran fine and appeared to be reliable. Was just after that rock went flying, I went and got our mower, which had guards, I've done an awful lot of cutting with a rotary and have hit rocks before, even sheared both shoulder bolts off and dropped both blades, but I never saw a rock fly like that one did, another reason I am thankful and or lucky nothing ever happened, I was fine with running tractors but lacked experience I had wished my dad was not so pre occupied with so many other things in those days, you just did not get the good information and or shared experience, many parents were just the same, lot of us kids had to figure it out on our own or run risks we were not all the much aware of.
Funny you posted this, lot of old memories, last one I will share was a ride on ours to the power lines and up to a crest of a steep hill overlooking a brush/marsh/grass area that some kids set on fire, I rode up on dads lap and we watched the firemen from that hill, that was a good memory actually on the old 2010.
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