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the Fet
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Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Saw this thing at Shaver Lake last year. Not sure if it's a tractor.
I've been pricing tractors lately, could really use one, but damn they're expensive. They seem to hold their value from new, like, forever.
A used compact tractor is what I'd pay for a car!
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tradmanclimbs
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Pomfert VT
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Oct 15, 2015 - 07:32pm PT
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happen to have my work camers with me when i went by my favorite tractor mother load a few weeks ago..
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 23, 2015 - 04:21am PT
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bump for DMT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Oct 23, 2015 - 05:33am PT
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Just got my first riding mower free off the street . . .
Replaced the celinoid and it ran sweet!
Sweet I did it my self made the girl-chick swoon
until I killt' the thing again
When I replaced the mower-deck drive belt, dag nabbit.
Mechanical tinkering without a tool shed or work bench
I'm pathetic whats' wrong with this thing ?
it is seizing some where I go back
I will start again. . .
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Happiegrrrl2
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Dec 15, 2015 - 09:48am PT
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If you like old farm stuff, you will want to find your way to Elk City, Oklahoma, and visit the Farm and Ranch museum, which is part of the Route 66 museum. http://visitelkcity.com/museums.aspx#oldtown
That is where the above images were shot. The cool thing I found was that a LOT of the meta parts were manufactured in not only Wisconsin, where I grew up, but very near to where I grew up.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 25, 2015 - 06:55pm PT
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Not a white christmass on my sisters farm
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 26, 2015 - 05:35pm PT
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Cool stuff Happie!
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perswig
climber
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Plenty of tread left, Ding.
Don't tell me you didn't kick 'em...
Dale
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 13, 2016 - 06:46am PT
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This ford is super nice! perfect size for small substanance farm.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 13, 2016 - 07:30am PT
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There are a lot of the older N9 era in the northeast. not many of these 4x4 semi modern rigs.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 31, 2016 - 07:34pm PT
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Did you just get that tractor?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 31, 2016 - 08:01pm PT
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"Those Ford tractors are all over the south. Hardly ever see one in California. Why is that?" asks DMT.
I guess you haven't traveled in the "Ford Belt" near Le Grand all that much. They are quite common, and these belong to one die-hard Ford fan.
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climber bob
Social climber
maine
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Feb 18, 2016 - 02:26pm PT
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the Fet
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Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Feb 18, 2016 - 02:36pm PT
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^ Nice.
I have thought about getting something to that. But a compact kubota or similar can also run a bush hog type mower. Post hole digger. Etc. and get in between trees. And will likely need less repairs. I just need an extra $20k+ lying around.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2016 - 03:11pm PT
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So where is this tractor museum, DMT?
Things sure look great when folks keep things dusted and painted and well-lit. The two museums here, Bright's Pioneer Museum and Charley's Ag Museum are both poorly-lit and dusty as heck and over-crowded and not kept up or repainted. But they's free, so...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 19, 2016 - 12:22pm PT
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The coolest thread on the web...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Feb 24, 2016 - 08:28am PT
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Feb 24, 2016 - 09:22am PT
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I have thought about getting something to that. But a compact kubota or similar can also run a bush hog type mower. Post hole digger. Etc. and get in between trees. And will likely need less repairs. I just need an extra $20k+ lying around.
Last year there was a cherry 30 hp Kubota that had been garaged and had less than 100 hrs on flea bay with back hoe, box pan and another attachment I'm forgetting that went for just over $20k. New the same rig would be $30k plus.
If we ever get a few acres to build a cabin on, I'm getting a tractor. Still have a fair bit of landscaping to do in the yard and am hoping to still have access to my buddies tractor this summer.
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jonnyrig
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Feb 27, 2016 - 09:46pm PT
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and this from a relatively "modern" overhead valve design. i bet you old-timers can tell me exactly what it came from. Note the design... 3 mains on a 4 cylinder. No counterweights on the crank. Shims between rods and caps (and between main caps as well). i plan to breath new life into her...
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