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What was the first tractor you drove?

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  1. bang

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    I moved from the city to the country in 1979 and bought a 1939 9n Ford, still own it. I started it Saturday and may use it today to bushhog a small area where I burned brush piles yesterday. It's about used up so I "upgraded" to a 1958 Ford 600 this year.
     
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    Ford 9N
     
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    No, it was we!
     
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    I grew up in city.. gramps had a farm when I was young but still used horses because of grades and swamps .. so first tractor was a 2005 Kubota mine... did drive a 1982 new Holland skid steer for a summer at 17
     
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  5. JWinIndiana

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    VAC Case with back blade. Drug manure piles out of the horse corrals with it. Sure beat a garden rake, shovel and wheel barrow. Wide front end and dad put studded snow tires on the front as the original tires were shot.
     
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  6. JustWood

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    '79 208 Timberjack
     
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  7. J. Dirt

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    Detroit powered?
     
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  8. lukem

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    1947 Feguson. Stiil going strong today.
     
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  9. JustWood

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    Yup!
     
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    BWAAAAHHHH! :yes:
     
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    Dad's old Satoh
    looked just like this one
    Had a snow plow and brush hog
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    Dad had 2 Bolens garden tractors over the years also
    The QT series hydrostatic with hydraulic lift
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    Have a Bolens/Troy Built the last 20 years
    Looks like these...great machines!
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    Yup
     
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    We had some old hoes and a crane with the old 2 stroke Detroit diesels.
    What a sound!!
     
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    My neighbor has one of those little satch tractors think it says shibura on the side? Handy little thing he runs the heck out of it!
     
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    Doesn’t cwn877 sawmill have one?
     
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    I think we had our about thirty years. Probably had less than 400 hours on it when we sold it.
    Great machine. It didn't get used enough, but still ran ok. Parts were getting hard to find!
     
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    I think it had a big chrome General Motors plaque on the top/intake
     
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    Got a pristine 6-71 on a genset that used to run our mill. Great unit.
     
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    That was the first big tractor I ever drove. Still remember how it sounded all spooled up bumping through the gears pulling a train of hay wagons back to the barn. Good times.
     
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