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laknox
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Location: Chandler AZ USA
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| TE1A_man wrote: | | James wrote: | Nice!
John Deere? The old ones, yeah, they are good tractors. The new ones? BLAH! Don't make me laugh 
Fancy a nice Marshall or Fordson??  |
I like their new lawn tractors, ours is nice, plowed tody, pushed a good amount of snow without having to lock the differental, also I was plowing with it idling, but i think lyle's is a A, right??? |
Yes, mine's an A, 1936 to be exact. My grandfater bought it used and burned in a fueling accident; my dad remembers it being delivered, but not the year. It's got cut-off rims (originally steel, but has pneumatic rims welded on the original spokes), but I don't know if my granddad did it or it came that way. My brother has a '35 BN (factory single wheel front end) that our granddad bought new, here in Phoenix. It came to the dealership with 4 other BNs on a single flat car. All 5 still exist and are restored and running, with 4 still being in the Phoenix area and one going to the MidWest a few years ago. 3 of the 4 belong to one family and their father and my grandfather were good friends.
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laknox
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Location: Chandler AZ USA
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| James wrote: | | Ahh, your a new tractor man. Well, I seriously reccomend a brand new New Holland. Can't beat 'em! |
"Playing" with old iron makes you appreciate the new stuff even more.  I've threshed and baled with steam and stationary power. For a day or two? Fine. For a living? Not a chance.
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James
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Location: Nr. Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
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Aye, I have done steam threshing too, and log sawing, and corn milling.
We do loads with our old tractors. Have a look at my site: www.mamods.piczo.com on the other interests page.
I'd love to do steam threshing for a living, I wouldn't mind it at all. The thing is, there is no call for it now 
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Griffin
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Welcome to the Forum Lyle, was going to ask if your Avatar was a JD model A, but came into the conversation late.
Look forward to seeing the D32.
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sparky
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laknox
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Location: Chandler AZ USA
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| James wrote: | Aye, I have done steam threshing too, and log sawing, and corn milling.
We do loads with our old tractors. Have a look at my site: www.mamods.piczo.com on the other interests page.
I'd love to do steam threshing for a living, I wouldn't mind it at all. The thing is, there is no call for it now |
Well, I guess I would "work" with this in a museum context, since my livlihood wouldn't depend on the return. I farmed with my father until '99 and it was hard enough to make a living with modern methods. I'd love to work on the Grand Canyon Railroad, but they don't steam all year 'round. I have had the privilege of briefly running the oldest wood burning steam loco still operable in the U.S. located at the museum in Sacremento. This was while I was attending UC Davis, just west of Sacramento and was a member of the Antique Mechanics club there. We restored and ran all kinds of farm equipment that was either made or used in California. The club has a 45 hp Case stationary engine that we used to take to the football games with about 6 whistles on it. (Not a chance of that nowadays with "safety" rules in effect.) There is also a one-of-a-kind H.W. Rice Co. straw burner stationary. This was used to power a 48" Bronson-Pitts all-wood treshing maching, originally. A couple other pieces the club has that are very interesting are a Union Manufacturing Sure-Grip half-track tractor, the only one known to exist and Caterpillar serial 1C1, the first production diesel Cat built. Some very rare early hit-and-miss engines, too. Here's their web site: http://www.tractors.ucdavis.edu/, though it's not been updated in quite a while. Currently, I belong to the Arizona Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association (http://www.aedgeta.org/) where we show and pull our JD's, a JD 1.5 hp hit-n-miss, JD 1B corn sheller and some other green toys. (I =told= you we bleed green and yellow.) Once I figure out how to post pics, I'll get some up.
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laknox
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject: Thanks |
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Thanks for the warm welcome, y'all. Hope to have some pics of various stuff up shortly.
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