Vintage farm tractors

Up on the farm……..

 

The A15 northwards of Hemswell Cliff is not a wide road, but I passed one of these (coming the other way) earlier this week:


Seriously LARGE, contractors' stuff. I had never seen one before - had to look it up - but I gather they've been on the go for over 50 years.

Me too. By and large, modern 'stuff' is too big and techie to prick my interest, but a cabby in one of these boys would.

 

My advert on this thread

 

Is that anywhere near Orangeville, Pa? I knew a farmer there years ago who favored Internationals and the terrain looks familiar.

 

that is the Quakake Valley, between Ginthers and Weatherly, Carbon County north of the Broad Mountain. Orangeville is 42 miles west from there.

 

"If it ain't red, leave it in the shed."

 

Personally, I collect die cast toy tractors. But I haven’t bought one for years. Most are John Deere but I have one Farmall, an “M”. One Allis Chalmers D15. Most are all 1:18 scale and the oldest one is a John Deere B which I was given as a present in 1953. It is in fairly good condition and comes with a manure spreader that still works. But the scoop that attached to the tractor is long gone. Presently I have eleven, some I bought at the dealerships and some at country fairs. Some are discontinued models that are no longer found in stores. I gave a few away to the church for their annual sale of different items and I gave my Oliver die cast to a farmer. I shall post a photo of my oldest one with the manure spreader. I touched up the paint so it took away its value but I would never sell it anyway. I think I was about eight years old when I got it.

 

But this is for the Farmall fans

 

Most all my tractors are by Ertl but that old one is by Eska-Ertl, before it was just Ertl.

 

Ha! I have all three of those plus a John Deere plow. Mine are play worn, by me, from the late fifties. Those are the only four I have. I'll post mine when I get back to Georgia.

 

My cousin's M reg (1973) Leyland 245.

 

The two big hitters in the US

 

I have two books on John Deere tractors. I used to work for a guy who owned apple orchards and I drove Farmalls. The Amish farm next to me in Lancaster County gave me the opportunity to drive a team of two mules, pulling a tobacco wagon loaded with laths of tobacco to be put up in the barn to dry before being wrapped and shipped off to market to be used for cigar wrappers. And I picked and loaded it too with a couple of Amish boys and girls. We made homemade ice cream.
IT was a dairy farm with Holsteins and I helped with the milking and feeding them silage from the silo. I threw hay bales up onto the wagons and I was a teenager then. My friend Clyde has old tractors from his grandfather on the farm and he can still get one or two running. But the main ones are Oliver and Farmall for the regular farm chores. Once in a while I visit the John Deere dealer up the road, but I am really not in the market anymore for toy tractors.

 

Walking around Bohinjska Bela , Slovenia I saw this . I thought this was a little Massey-Ferguson at first but the badge says IMT, a Serbian company.
Industry of Machinery and Tractors - Wikipedia

 

If you pass through Biggleswade, England, nowadays, you can still buy a Bedfordshire Clanger from a local traditional bakery. Very tasty; mine yesterday had ham and potato at one end, merging into apple at the other. Other options are available. This was eaten at the top end of town beside what had been the old Great North Road, opposite the site of Albone's original work yard at the back of the onetime Ongley Inn, where he made these heavy metal "clangers":

..... rather rare and which were going for north of £300k pre-Covid.

What I hadn't realised before was that only a couple of years after producing this, an armoured ambulance derivative was trialled and demonstrated to the British Army at Bisley in 1904, details at:
Ivel Motor Ambulance ‘Ivel First-Aid Motor’ - Tank Encyclopedia

 

My pal's Ford. He kept it after he got his new (to him) Kubota. Both are three cylinder diesels

 

MTZ-80 tractor,
Made by Minsk Tractor Works Belarus

 

Mine isn't as nice as yours. And one of the front wheels went missing over the past 65 or 70 years.



I notice yours doesn't have a three point hitch. Do you know if it came with one?