john deere 5010

Was anybody watching the auction for the first John Deere 5010 tractor on eBay? The auction finished today and when the smoke cleared the hammer fell at an amazing $79,100! eBay: JOHN DEERE 5010 THE FIRST ONE BUILT (item 300055347986 end time Dec-10-06 07:00:00 PST) As you can tell, it is an...

Reading all these stories about flipping tractors over reminded me of when I worked on my grandparents dairy farm in the mid 70's. Their largest tractor was a JD 5010 like in the photo and they had a eight bottom JD plow. I used to do a lot of their plowing and two or three times I had it stand...