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Post by bayoufoto on Sept 7, 2007 21:40:17 GMT -5
My high school friend drove this one a many a mile. The first tractor his dad ever bought  Canon A2 Canon 35-105 Kodak portra 400 VC |
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Post by herron on Sept 7, 2007 22:12:39 GMT -5
I don't know what it is about tractors. I love shooting pictures of them, too! Perhaps it's because they seem to have so much character...even when they're sitting still.  ----- Is that what I think it is at the top of the exhaust? |
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Post by bayoufoto on Sept 8, 2007 9:24:04 GMT -5
actually it is a diet coke can
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Post by bayoufoto on Sept 8, 2007 9:27:47 GMT -5
You know after shooting digital for awhile I am always amazed at the dynamic range of good color film
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Post by Randy on Sept 8, 2007 13:12:40 GMT -5
I can hear the stack talk now (pllaap pllaap pllaap pllaap pllaap) on that 50 Ricky, I used to have an Allis-Chalmers WD45 myself.
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Post by olroy2044 on Sept 8, 2007 19:55:20 GMT -5
Logged a lot of hours on a Model D--originally with steel (!!) wheels. My then future father-in-law and I converted it to rubber--vast improvement. Roy
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Post by herron on Sept 9, 2007 1:09:17 GMT -5
actually it is a diet coke can ;D That's what I thought. I see them on all sorts of old tractors. What it is about those vertical exhaust stacks that seems to attract old soft drink (or beer) cans? I know it's meant to keep the exhaust and smoke from coming directly back at the driver, but aren't there caps of some kind made for that? |
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Post by Randy on Sept 9, 2007 7:28:42 GMT -5
I always used a soup can. It was part of the thrill of owning a tractor, especially when you started it up and shot the can up in the air.
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Post by herron on Sept 9, 2007 20:48:10 GMT -5
OK...I can see putting a can up there for the fun of watching it shoot up in the air (at least that might be fun the first 20-or-so times) but weren't there original equipment caps to keep out the rain, if it was that much of a problem?  |
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 12, 2007 14:03:36 GMT -5
More tractors. These have been sitting on the front lawn of what appears to be a very successful farm for ages. Each is sitting on its own concrete pad. They are always immaculate. As lawn ornaments they edge out storks, trolls and pink plastic flamingoes. Cocshutt 20  Cockshutt Golden Arrow  Mickey |
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Post by kiev4a on Sept 12, 2007 17:48:52 GMT -5
Heck, that's a modern John Deere. It appears to have an electric starter.
Our neighbor had a John Deere "A". To start it you had to turn a selector from stove oil to gas, then open a peatcock (sp?) to reduce the compression. Then you grabbed the big cast flywheel that had finger grips molded into the back and gave it several spins. When the two-cylinder engine caught and started running, you closed the compression release valve and switched to stove oil. When you operated the tractor tou had to remain aware of that big flywheel spinning not that far from your left pant leg. More than one farmer was killed or badly maimed when clothing got caught in the flywheel or the power take-off on the rear of the tractor.
On the "A" you had to be a pretty good-sized teenager to start it. It was a sign that you had "come of age."
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Post by bayoufoto on Sept 12, 2007 21:11:06 GMT -5
Saw one of those on the RFD channel on satellite. Have never seen on in person
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Post by Randy on Sept 12, 2007 22:36:16 GMT -5
Saw one of those on the RFD channel on satellite. Have never seen on in person I love RFD! Classic Tractors, Machinery of the Past, Branson Showcase, and the Train Shows! |
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Post by olroy2044 on Sept 12, 2007 23:25:23 GMT -5
Those look a little like old Olivers. Roy
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Post by kiev4a on Sept 13, 2007 12:55:43 GMT -5
It was a Ford 8N we had on our lil' ol' 7 acres...what was called a 'gentlemans' farm. We raised all our own veggies, beef and pork. The pigs we butchered ourselves, but those steers were just a little too much for us, so we sent them out. Funny...they always graded low because they did not have enough fat...but we liked them lean. Ron Headd Kalamazoo, MI My dad and his brother both bought Ford 9N tractors in the spring of 1941. We had ours until 1986 and I'm sure it is still doing chores on someone's "hobby farm." My cousin completly restored my uncles 9N and I still see it at tractor shows around the area. You still see a lot of them on small farms--almost 70 years after they were built. The only trouble with those Fors was if you hooked 'em to something like a real solid tree trunk, it the trunk didn't give, the tractor would walk right out from under its wheels and flip over backwards. The killed a lot of farmers. |
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