Does anyone here like tractors?

[Mary Stetler]

I get info from daughter and hubby about the machinery. Like the confusion on the pto and the back blade. At Dan Alaska's prompting, I went and actually looked and only the three point harness was on the blade, so no deep rototilling.
But then hubby was having trouble starting up the big snow blower yesterday. The key was missing!
I must say, we no longer need parents to teach us anything. I went to youtube to be taught that the key is just a piece of plastic to keep two metal pieces from connecting and the youtuber got out a plastic fork and used part of it as a key. I looked for something not so fragile and it worked.
Sadly when I got home from chores, hubby said the machine would not start again. He looked like a kid whose balloon had popped.
But without youtube we both came to a conclusion. Maybe we should post it. the extension cord got pulled somehow and plugging it back in solved the problem of the electric starter.

 

[Jake Smith]

That tractor keeps tearing down my small trees, I'll be needing therapy.
But I do agree it comes in handy clearing large trees and tree limbs carring them to the field.
Mowing small brush and large areas of grass.

Yeah it does; and right now it's helping me pull the truck up to put the engine and tranny back in.

 

[Don Alaska]

I get info from daughter and hubby about the machinery. Like the confusion on the pto and the back blade. At Dan Alaska's prompting, I went and actually looked and only the three point harness was on the blade, so no deep rototilling.
But then hubby was having trouble starting up the big snow blower yesterday. The key was missing!
I must say, we no longer need parents to teach us anything. I went to youtube to be taught that the key is just a piece of plastic to keep two metal pieces from connecting and the youtuber got out a plastic fork and used part of it as a key. I looked for something not so fragile and it worked.
Sadly when I got home from chores, hubby said the machine would not start again. He looked like a kid whose balloon had popped.
But without youtube we both came to a conclusion. Maybe we should post it. the extension cord got pulled somehow and plugging it back in solved the problem of the electric starter.

When my old Craftsman garden tractor with a snow blower died, I bought a walk-behind blower--the largest I could find here at the time--and it was not up to the job in heavy snow years with an old man behind it, so I bought an attachment for the tractor and it works great! Buying tractor implements and attachments is always an argument with the wife, but this has paid for itself over and over. It IS a PTO-driven thing though, so it might be troublesome for you. When I put it on in the winter, it stays on the tractor until the tiller replaces it in the spring.

 

[Mary Stetler]

When my old Craftsman garden tractor with a snow blower died, I bought a walk-behind blower--the largest I could find here at the time--and it was not up to the job in heavy snow years with an old man behind it, so I bought an attachment for the tractor and it works great! Buying tractor implements and attachments is always an argument with the wife, but this has paid for itself over and over. It IS a PTO-driven thing though, so it might be troublesome for you. When I put it on in the winter, it stays on the tractor until the tiller replaces it in the spring.

Tractors and snowblowers are at different properties.

 

[Marie Mallory]

When my old Craftsman garden tractor with a snow blower died, I bought a walk-behind blower--the largest I could find here at the time--and it was not up to the job in heavy snow years with an old man behind it, so I bought an attachment for the tractor and it works great! Buying tractor implements and attachments is always an argument with the wife, but this has paid for itself over and over. It IS a PTO-driven thing though, so it might be troublesome for you. When I put it on in the winter, it stays on the tractor until the tiller replaces it in the spring.

We wives have to watch y'all or we'll be in the poor house with a yard full of man toys.

 

[Jake Smith]

Wednesday before pulling the truck with the tractor, to the cherry picker with the engine on it. I tried to crank it and the battery was really low, it wouldn't start for the first time. So I popped the tops off the battery, and there wasn't any water in it at all. First time doing any maintenance on it. Filled them up, and charged it, fired it up and it's doing fine. "Close one"; could've lost a good battery.

 

[Jake Smith]

Took a day off today, except for moving cherry picker to barn and plywood, I had used plywood to move the cherry picker around on pulling engine, so I was gonna use tractor to pull them out there, but when I went to crank it, the battery that was dry of water, that I had charged, was dead. So I had just replaced the one in the truck and van, so I used the one from the van, It works great, I changed them out, and it fires right up, then I took me a long pleasure ride, on tractor sightseeing.

 

[Faye]

I like tractors with implements and attachments, but have no need for such anymore. I sold my Ford 8N about 1990 and my BCS walk behind tractor tiller with ride behind implements 2010. when I quit large scale gardening. I also had, a sickle bar mower, hay rake, single share, trencher, harrow, level drag, dump trailer, cleated chains, and a snow/dirt blade for it. Some of those implements were for other tractors, but I modifieds them to work on the BCS.

I grew up with several John Deere (both gas and diesel), Allis Chalmers, Massey Ferguson, Case diesel with backhoe and a front loader, and an International diesel.

 

[Jake Smith]

I like tractors with implements and attachments, but have no need for such anymore. I sold my Ford 8N about 1990 and my BCS walk behind tractor tiller with ride behind implements 2010. when I quit large scale gardening. I also had, a sickle bar mower, hay rake, single share, trencher, harrow, level drag, dump trailer, cleated chains, and a snow/dirt blade for it. Some of those implements were for other tractors, but I modifieds them to work on the BCS.

I grew up with several John Deere (both gas and diesel), Allis Chalmers, Massey Ferguson, Case diesel with backhoe and a front loader, and an International diesel.

"Sounds", as if "you" know your way around a tractor, to me. I bought a 1950 Massey Ferguson Tractor, that a friend at work sold me for $250 dollars, pulled it home, and rode it around here some, and then got injured at work, was down for quite a while, and it was parked in the field, some guy who saw it, bought it from me for a thousand dollars, which we needed at that time, so it was a nice profit for only pulling it home. Have a photo of it upstairs I'll have to put Up on this thread soon; I really love tractors myself.

 

[Faye]

"Sounds", as if "you" know your way around a tractor, to me. I bought a 1950 Massey Ferguson Tractor, that a friend at work sold me for $250 dollars, pulled it home, and rode it around here some, and then got injured at work, was down for quite a while, and it was parked in the field, some guy who saw it, bought it from me for a thousand dollars, which we needed at that time, so it was a nice profit for only pulling it home. Have a photo of it upstairs I'll have to put Up on this thread soon; I really love tractors myself.

Those old tractors were a good investment and may still be, if found in original condition and needing restoration. Restoring old tractors, especially the small ones, was very popular a few years ago. Anxious to see the photo of your old 1950 Massey Ferguson. One model looks very much like the Ford 8N.