If you dont have an implement shed with huge doors on it (guessing you don't), but have an extra stall in a regular garage, with a standard sized garage door, I would advise you to get something that will fit through that door and into that stall. Height becomes an issue on standard size garage doors. Even an H farmall has to have the exhaust pipe cut off shorter, to fit into a standard garage door.
Keeping your parade tractor under a roof will save you a lot of work, and keep the paint looking nice. If you are only putting it in parades, you will want that. If you take a freshly painted tractor, and store it outside in the sun and rain, it don't take long for it to start looking crappy. About three years of that and it'll be pretty noticeable. About 5 and it might not look like it was ever re-painted. A superb paint job with hardner and clear coat finish and what not, it might last longer, but I think you get my point. It's appearance WILL deteriorate over time if stored outside.
If you are going to be hauling this tractor to get to the parades, that brings about another issue with size. This time being the width. Alot of people only have 1/2 ton pick-ups and are limited to bumper trailers. Which in a nut shell, limits you to car trailer use. Car trailers brings about a width factor, because they are only designed to haul something as wide as the width of the wheels on a car. For an example, an H farmall will likely not fit onto the car trailer, UNLESS you install the adjustable rear wheels so the caste iron centers are dished in (not out), and are clamped onto the axle clear to the inside. And even then, you might have to cross your fingers if you have a narrow car trailer.
Tow ratings of the trailer and vehicle also become a factor. Just because you can get it on the trailer, doesn't mean you won't surpass the weight limits. Especially if using a 1/2 ton pick-up and car trailer. You might not think it, but some of these tractors that might be made to fit on a car trailer, might far exceed the weight of a car. Especially if they have fluid filled tires, and wheel weights. An H farmall might be used as an example here as well. No fluid, no wheel weights, it might be comparable to the weight of a car. With fluid and multiple wheel weights, it might exceed the the ratings of the car trailer and tow vehicle.
I always try to tell most people to not think smaller. But in your case, I think the smaller the better. It would actually be better for you, and make more sense, to not think big. As to what make and model you get, is truly a personal preference. For parades, the more odd and unique it is, the better it'll be for the spectators. Nothing against an 8n Ford, but as common as those things are, everybody has seen one of those. Just using the 8n as an example. Other makes and models can fit into that same boat. You want to be a hit with the audience, take them something they haven't ever seen before. So in that regard, un-common would be good. If nothing else, un-common to your area. Because if you get into something that is un-common no matter where you are at, then you are getting into something that is rare. And rare is expensive to buy. So to help the pocket book, you might look for something that is un-common to your area, but not rare overall.
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