Your first tractor

[LazyK]

Robert.. My 1st tractor was a brand new 1953 Flexor. It was bright red, sprung metal seat, small R-1's in the rear, single solid rubber tire up front, modified open pin-type tow hook in the rear, dual off-set pedal motivators w/single speed chain and sprockets transmisson, fake throttle lever on the hood and nifty painted-on headlights and radiator grill. After a few years, I traded it to the kid down the street for a Daisy Red Rider BB gun. By the way, what was Oliver's main "color?" Did they carry an ID paint into later manufacturing? Also,very classy signature ya got. I doff my cover to your imagination.

 

[TonyC]

<font color=blue>By the way, what was Oliver's main "color?"</font color=blue>

I'm not sure who this question is for. I got the e-mail but it was addressed to Robert. Since I had the Oliver, the answer is green and yellow. Yes, that's right...but the green was brighter than JD's. I'm not sure if they shifted colors later but all of those I have seen were green.

Now for the big question...which one of us has the classy signature?!!!!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I like Mark's signature. Just need a truck for the loader to load.

 

[qwerty15]

The first tractor i drove was a 444 international with 2000 loader about 3 years ago at my uncles. i was 12. I brush hogged and backfilled the foundation around his addition. Last year i drove a case 580L TLB to dig out stumps in my backyard and grade 5 truck loads of dirt. My cousin rented a bobcat 320 excavator on my 14 birthday and got to play with that. Im 15 now and will be operating a skid loader soon

 

[Mark_in_NH]

qwerty15,
Welcome to the TBN. You haven't really filled out much for your profile, so we don't know alot about you other than your age which you told us. But I am guessing, you may well be the youngest member that the TBN has.
The IH 444 that we had when I was growing up had no loader, but it sure was the coolest thing a boy could have been allowed to drive. Head light, and flashers and cab and a nice hearty diesel engine. I thought it was the greatest to be out after dark either plowing or harrowing and at hay time, tedding the hay one last time before I had to go inside. It gave me a ligitimate reason to use all those lights.

 

[qwerty15]

Mark
The 444 is fun to drive. My uncle is getting older now and i do a lot of brush hogging for him. He says im a better operator than him even though i havent been doing it very long. Ive been trying to get him to buy a bulldoxer so i can fix the logging roads going up on the hill. 444 can make it up even with the diff locked so we have to drive through the neighbors field. well got to go back to reading other posts and looking at pictures. a lot of reading on this great site.

 

[pajoube]

So long ago now but I think it was a 1938 or 40 JD 2 cylinder with the big fly wheel. As I was very young by the end of the 40's all I could do is ride along. Then I got a AC for my own tractor just to haul wagons back to the homestead.
Those were great years to grow up on the farm. Wish they were still in the family.
PJ

 

[tgello]

ford 8n

 

[ByuBill]

The first tractor that I drove was a 1946 JD-B in the late fifties.

 

[LazyK]

TonyC...I must have loaned my one remaining brain cell to a needy amoeba. I was referring to your sig...well done!