Top 5 Antique Tractors

[@johnalexander4356]

Those old tractors sure do bring joy to your dad. I share some of the joy. The memories I have as a.boy running an 830 and other 2 cylinder tractors come flooding back every time I hear them.run. Thank you for sharing!

[@brianhdueck3372]

A fine green collection indeed. Can’t say I have a favourite. They each brought so much to the farms of the last century. Thanks for sharing your hobby.

[@larrydavidson3402]

What a nice group of 5 old tractors and they all run fine.

[@jefflee1467]

I like them all. You have some neat bigger old John Deere’s. That’s cool!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

2 banger, 2 banger, 2 CYCLE, 2 banger and 2 banger. Unbeatable! Blessings!

[@smoothormond]

All my favorites

[@wayneepp5287]

I have a soft spot for the 2 cylinder John Deeres, grew up driving a 720.

[@tractordan933]

WOW that must be incredibly hard ground to pull down an 830 with a three bottom plow.

[@isbcornbinder]

The 70 Diesel has always been my favorite tractor.

[@wademizelle3433]

Great group of tractors, good video and thanks

[@aaronjarvenpa1743]

I found another 830I in southern Idaho . I was thinking about you .

[@jonelsonster]

Yeah, I saw one on FB marketplace near Burley ID. Probably the same one you are talking about. I already asked him if he'd sell me just the front bumper. But he said no. I understand. Looks like I'll need to build my own. I even contemplated driving 3 hours up to take some measurements of the bumper.

[@ileenmcminn2062]

I couldn't believe the before and after on the green 830! Where did you get the R and the yellow 830? The old R Model Mack in the background looks familiar?

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Hard to say which my favorite tractor is but I do have a very soft spot for that A.

[@dennisfrisk]

I suspect I'll take some heat for saying this, but the R John Deere is a gutless pig as far as tractors go. Dad had an R for about 6 maybe 7 weeks the spring of 1964. It seemed to pull our 12 ft Krause disk O-K, but the 4-14" Deere trailing plows the salesman who said we absolutely had to have that plow with the R must have been smoking something, the R was down lugging it's heart out in 1st gear on clay hills, with one of our IH #8 3-14 plows we normally pulled with a FARMALL M in 3rd gear the R would lug down in 2nd gear. Supposedly the best Deere 2 cylinder diesel mechanic had tuned the R up before we started using it, but didn't seem to make it started better or pull better. I probably pulled the IH #8 3-14 plow more than the 4-14 Deere plow, I did pull the 4 bottom Deere plow some with our FARMALL SUPER M-TA, 2nd gear seemed to work well. The neighbor who farmed across the fence from us had a 730 Deere diesel, the V-4 pony started that tractor WAY BETTER than the 2 cylinder pony Deere put in the R. Oh, and that 730 seemed to pull WAY harder, even seemed to pull harder than our 4010 diesel Deere even after we had the injection pump rebuilt and turned up some. Took about 2-3 weeks and I popped the head gasket. Neighbor was a mechanic at our closest Deere dealers, I chased parts on Saturday and Sunday he came over and in about 4-5 hours we had the new head gasket in. About a year later we had another good shop completely overhaul the 4010, put 4020 M&W sleeves & pistons in it. The 4010 had a totally un-natural appetite for 10W-40 series 3 engine oil, like about 2 full quarts per tank of diesel fuel. The new sleeves & pistons pretty well stopped the oil use. Dad was using the 4010 on our Brillion 6 ft rotary mower, the constant tight turning with the mower loosened all 4 of the cap screws on the stub shaft, and when the stub shaft came off the pto shifted from 540 into 1000 rpm, and tore up around $1000 or $2000 worth of pto drive parts. Dad had grade 8 Plus capscrews, red Lock-tite, and stamped star washers under each of the 4 bolts, Dad should have put 2-3 tack welds on each of the cap screws. Dad used the 4010 to run the Deere #30 pull-type combine, and after every wagon load of oats He'd re-tighten those 4 capscrews. Such an absolutely TERRIBLE DESIGN bolting that pto stub shaft on. The 4010 spent a week in the shop, guy that owned the shop called Dad and said he had somebody interested in buying the 4010, 15-16 year old son of a guy Dad went to high-school with. The tractor never came back to our farm. Shop put an M&W turbocharger on it. Year later the 16 yr old comes over on a Sunday looking for Dad, not sure what he was pulling, chisel plow or moldboard plow and he tore something up in the transmission or final drive. Dad was pretty dead set against paying transmission repairs on a tractor with a rebuilt engine, rebuilt pto, 4 new tires, new paint & decals, and an add-on turbocharger turned up who knows how much. Dad had been looking REALLY HARD for an 806 FARMALL DIESEL before he bought the 4010. The 4010 had just been a constant bottomless pit the 2-3 years we had it, always spending money on something for it. Dad's one brother had an early 3010 diesel as a replacement for a 400 FARMALL he had, he sent it back to the dealer 3 or 4 times to be turned-up.

[@noehueber6602]

Love the all tractor from mee

[@ptnelsonster]

My takeaway: you need a Super 99 in your fleet!

[@keithobrien8977]

You all still need to go back for that little M where the R and 830 came from...