What was your first Deere?

jdcook00 · Dec 29, 2003

Just thought I'd put this one out there for all the yellow and green people like myself. It was a Christmas gift for my youngest son who loves my tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

yellowsocks93 · Dec 29, 2003

Mine was a 4020 diesel tractor. It's kind of fun now that I have gotten to operate the real thing.

Tractors4u · Dec 29, 2003

I still have my 4020. It is at least 25 years old. Between my brother and I we had every piece of equipment needed to run a successful carpet farming operation. My first real Deere was an 855.

fgross335_2210 · Dec 30, 2003

My first toy Deere was a 3020 row crop. Then a 5020, a 7520, 2030. There was a 4020 wf in there somewhere as well and a whole slew of equipment.

Starting running my Dad's 110 GT when I was 6 or 7. Started running the 2520 when I was 10. Drove the new 4230 home from the dealership around 1977 and was the last family member to drive it before we sold it in 2002.

I think my favorites are the 2520 and a 212GT we had when I was a teenager. Both timeless machines and very good examples of the best John Deere ever built.

I definitely have green in my blood!

FWIW - I still have all of my "mini green machines" and my son plays with them now. Can't see parting with them, ever!

JDGREEN4ME · Dec 30, 2003

LX172 lawn tractor... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

DaveNay · Dec 30, 2003

I went straight to the full sized toys /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif My first Deere was/is my current 855 tractor.

JDgreen227 · Dec 30, 2003

A JD bike....how original. My first Deere was a 318 garden tractor with the 50 inch deck and 54 inch front blade. Even with all the rust and faded paint and leaks it now has, I am just as attached to it as I am my nearly new JD...maybe more so becuz it's been paid off for ten years.

jackd · Dec 30, 2003

My "full size" 4400 was first, then a 388 lawn, then a 4020 toy (Christmas gift from my daughter), then another 4400 (long story), then a 4600, and now a 4710-- all in 7 years! Guess I'm hooked /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif and love it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JackD

Dave___in___CT · Dec 30, 2003

Hi...

1st: Deere 212 garden tractor
2nd: Deere 330 diesel garden tractor
3rd: Deere 750 compact utility tractor w/ loader & backhoe

Rode a Deere pedal tractor as a kid... but it wasn't mine... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Dave...

Will_C · Dec 30, 2003

A 1973 5 speed bicycle, painted white. Dad was good friends with the local JD dealer, and came home with a matching pair for my brother and me. Also. spend a lot of time on his JDX4 snowmobile.
I guess that makes my first JD experiences a little different than most. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Will