Labor day

[old car fan]

Small show by the flag  pole

[old car fan]

Upside down?

[Lozierman]

This must be from an Australian fan.  "Down Under"!

 

 

 

 

[zipdang]

There you go. Much better!

 

 

[rocketraider]

Tractors are red...

 

Can't say much. My cousin bought 15 acres next to me and then bought a JD 3302 with box blade and bush hog to work the property before they build. They're still in Charlotte and asked if I'd house it in exchange for using it to mow my fields. So I've been mowing front of the house with it. I'm still out on hydrostatic as I find I sometimes go too fast to get a nice cut.

 

Still get the 135 out to do the back side next to the woods. It has rewarded me with a flat front tire for allowing the green interloper to live here.🙄

[rocketraider]

18 yr old down the road is a big JD fan and when I took the trash off yesterday there sat a decent looking A in the front yard and him out there fooling with it. Said Nate what are you gonna do with that Popper? He wants his dad to buy the land behind them so he can farm. It's part of what's called a Century Farm here (in same family for 100+ years) so IDK how much luck he'll have getting it.

[60FlatTop]

Hair is red.

 

Tractors are orange.

 

[padgett]

And many '69 Judges are red.

 

 

[rocketraider]

Oh, I spent plenty of time on a WD45 growing up. Also a string of Farmalls from a Cub to a rangy old F30 with a hand crank. There were Super A, 100 and 140 too, which all but the Cub were sold when my dad retired from farming.

 

My daddy and the JD dealer didn't get along, so that's why there were so many red tractors around. My daddy always referred to him as "an oily sob".

 

I needed a tractor that could handle a bush hog and there's not much better than a MF135 for that. Cubby sure couldn't though he did good with a sickle mower. That was a real PITA to put on and take off though, and after 50 years it had a lot of wear and tear, so I sold Cubby and his attachments in 2005.

 

[Pfeil]

1 hour ago, padgett said:

And many '69 Judges are red.

 

 

And need their hoods aligned 

[Graham Man]

Real tractors burn wood....1914 Case.  Unfortunately not much of a Steam Show this year.

 

[padgett]

"And need their hoods aligned  " factory. Can always tell one that had the hood tach added, factory holes in the hood were really ragged, almost as bad as the transmission tunnel holes for a factory Muncie.

 

Also is easy to tell a replica Shelby Cobra: the under hood is shiny.

 

ps I learned to call steam tractors "traction engines" is that something different ?

Edited September 6, 2020 by padgett (see edit history)

[rocketraider]

I missed the old machinery shows this year much as anything. Local Heritage Festival was an early casualty as it's always 1st weekend in May. Southeast Old Thresher's Reunion Denton NC the same, as were Somerset in VA and Kinzers in PA. Haven't heard on Luray VA which I think is next month.

[John348]

7 hours ago, Pfeil said:

And need their hoods aligned 

 

You beat me to it! If jumps out in a 20' photo! 

 

Mr P

tractors don't have hoods...... but that is a subject for another thread

Edited September 6, 2020 by John348 (see edit history)

[padgett]

Traction engines have boilers but what do you call the metal thang over the engine on a Fordson, a bonnet ?

[JFranklin]

My tractor is the old grey mare. Working on it, and with it a bit now and then. In the same family handed down from new. left side photo was just after a re-paint a few years back.

Edited September 6, 2020 by JFranklin (see edit history)

[Pfeil]

On 9/6/2020 at 2:35 PM, padgett said:

"And need their hoods aligned  " factory. Can always tell one that had the hood tach added, factory holes in the hood were really ragged, almost as bad as the transmission tunnel holes for a factory Muncie.

 

Also is easy to tell a replica Shelby Cobra: the under hood is shiny.

 

ps I learned to call steam tractors "traction engines" is that something different ?

Not a problem with mine;

Edited September 8, 2020 by Pfeil
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[Fossil]

1960 Fordson Dexta.

The only tractor I've owned and liked so much that it was completely tore down and repainted. Wish I'd known about these twenty years earlier. Just a a great 33 hp. tractor that pulls like a diesel mule. 

Edited September 7, 2020 by Fossil (see edit history)