TV Tractors

[ERNIEB]

Recently I saw something about famous TV cars. You know, the Batmoble and others. It got me thinking about tractors that may have appeared on a particular show on a regular basis. Most TV shows these days seem to be about neurotic people living in NYC, so I guess this is really for old timers and vintage TV fans. I thought about this longer than a normal person would have and still came up with only three. Here goes.
"Green Acres" I think there was a name on it, but I can't remember what it was. Maybe someone else can. One thing I never figured out was how come a fella with that kind of money couldn't get himself a better tractor.
"Lassie" The tractor, like all the other vehicles on the show, was a Ford. A Jubilee? 600? They probably used a brand new one every year. One thing that always amazed me was that even when Timmy's Dad came back after a long day in the fields, the tractor was always shiney and clean.
"The Real Mcoy's" A farm family, they must have had a tractor, But I don't recall it or even if it was shown.
Well, thats all I could come up with, maybe someone else can add to the list.

 

[Bird]

That's some trivia I never thought about, ErnieB, but I just now looked up a web site that says Oliver's tractor on Green Acres "was a Hoyt-Clagwell (Hoyt-Clagwell was a joke company, the tractor was actually a John Deere)."

Bird

 

[scruffy]

Bird, a John Deere was what I thought when I read ErnieB's post. All I could remember was the top of the hood, steering post and wheel....said Deere to my miniscule mind.
McCoy's? Seems to me it was a mule and plow...but believe me, I am more than likely wrong. When I went over fifty a few years back, the memory headed south...ain't seen it since. Seems like Roy Rogers shows all used an old Ford, but I don't remember if was a Jubilee or not. (we didn't have color TV - nor did Dad ever get a TV until all of us boys left home, figured he wouldn't get any work out of us!)

 

[Thomas]

Ernieb,
Now your starting to make me feel old by recalling those programs once again./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Do you remember the TV show Sky King?
He was a pilot who search the sky for danger and came to the aid,but if I recall at his hanger there was a old Massy Harris that always sat idle.

Yep now I feel like getting the rocker out and covering up with a blanket /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Take care and stay /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

Thomas..NH

 

[Bird]

Scruffy, sounds like your dad waited even longer than mine to get a TV. I was 14 when we got our first one and 28 before I could afford a color TV.

And Thomas, that was a twin engine Beechcraft on Sky King, wasn't it?

Bird

 

[scruffy]

Bird,
I think he was just afraid to go milk them 30 to 40 milk cows on his own! We milked them by hand too! Always had a couple hundred plus beef cattle floating around and 50 acres of hay to get in every year, so he didn't want to do without the cheap labor! ;o) wouldn't trade that growing up for anything! The ol' fart waited until a year after we were gone to put an indoor toilet and tub in the house too.
He's still livin' on the old home place...85 years old now, and much, much smarter than he was when I was a teen!
P.S. - He developed that brilliance just a few years after I left home at 19. Sure is peculiar how that happens.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by scruffy on 9/18/00 07:20 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[Thomas]

Bird it was a twin engine,but I'm not sure if it was a Beechcraft or a Bonanza.
Please don't start about the TV show Gun Smoke. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif


Thomas..NH

 

[gordon]

I must say dads are alot smarter than we give them credit for. Dad used to call the tv set--the idiot box-- the only thing I can ever remember him watching on tv was the landing on the moon--we got to stay up and watch it and the olympics. It was the early to mid 70s when he bought a color tv and that was only because the black and white was beyond repair and mom said she wanted a color tv.
Back to the smartness of dads using the cheap labor thats available to them to the fullest extent!!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Dad would always work the heck out of us boys but my sister sure could play the game and got out of more work than a little bit---only a girl could play a dad like she used to because he would never put up with it from us boys!
I remember thinking about the truck always being so clean after running up and down all those dirt roads on lassie and the tractor just gleaming after a day in the field. The wonderful world of tv.
Gordon

 

[Anonymous Poster]

You old bucks can talk about me anytime you want!

Miss Kitty

 

[Bird]

Scruffy, you had a little more to do than I did, I guess. We only had one or two milk cows at a time but the milking and taking care of the hogs became my job when I was 10-11 years old; hot job in the summer and had to carry a kerosene lantern to the barn in the winter. I've always said one thing I have no intention of ever doing again is owning a milk cow. But we partitioned off a big bedroom to install a bathroom and piped water into the house when I was only 12-13 years old. We even celebrated by burning the outhouse./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird