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 It's a Friday, so here are some rusty old Fords with bad interiors. Discuss. | « » 4:48 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Re: It's a Friday, so here are some rusty old Fords with bad interiors. Discuss. (Bah Humbug) » | « » 5:08 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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My dad has one like this: 
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| FV-QR » | « » 5:10 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Excellent! Much as I like John Deere mowers, I have to admit that blue Ford I posted drives way, way better than the much newer John Deere tractor my family also has.
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| Re: FV-QR (Bah Humbug) » | « » 5:26 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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What thread about Ford tractors can be complete without the 801 Powermaster?  The 8n was probably the most famous Ford tractor, but the Powermaster was 10x better. The 8N just didn't have the power necessary for working in hilly areas.
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| FV-QR » | « » 5:46 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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I watched my dad pull an 18 wheeler out of a swampy yard with his Ford 3000. It was pretty cool seeing that thing lift up on its back wheels, roaring like a T-Rex. Wish I had a pic. 
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bump for a good thread
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| Re: (ZoomBy) » | « » 6:10 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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I need to take a picture of my dad's 8N. It's like this but with some rust, so it should be TCL approved.  
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| Re: » | « » 6:21 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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My former employer is a major E. coast Ford retailer, and he's also a Ford fanatic, collecting a fair number of vintage blue-oval stock. He has in his collection an unusual Ford tractor; a 1953 Ford "Golden Jubilee" model. It is fully restored and a showpiece, and the item of interest on it is the special badging and striping and other trim pieces that set it apart from the regular-production tractors. 1953 was Ford Motor Company's Golden Anniversary, as it was founded in 1903, and the company issued quite a few commerorative models in its various lines. It's a very pretty little tractor; like this one: 
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| Re: Re: (vwlarry) » | « » 6:25 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| FV-QR » | « » 6:34 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Larry, that is, indeed, almost too pretty to use in the dirt! I have fond memories of drifting the blue one in a downpour in a muddy patch of the pasture. It was slow drifting, but it was very predictable and very, very messy.
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| Re: FV-QR (Bah Humbug) » | « » 6:37 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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I'll take a pic of my father's ford tractor next weekend. iirc it's a powermaster as well.
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| FV-QR » | « » 7:17 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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My grandfather owned a 50s international, it was red and pretty damn awesome growing up, I could drive it myself by 9 or 10
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| FV-QR » | « » 7:20 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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My favorite thing about tractors is the utter disrespect you can treat them with. Fix them with hammers, rev the piss out of them, park them in the rain, drive over just about anything, pull anything, push anything, and then do it again tomorrow. Oh, and attaching a tow-behind mower and giving a haircut to rocks and smallish trees is satisfying.
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An ex-girlfriend of mine grew up on a hay farm in Upstate NY. Her dad only bought two brands of tractors -- Fords, and Belarus, the latter made in a former Soviet state. Apparently, every one of the Belarus tractors they had came from the factory with the shift pattern reversed: if the indicator said the forward gears were to the left, you'd have to shift to the right to actually find them. The Fords, apparently, did not share this problem.
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| Re: It's a Friday, so here are some rusty old Fords with bad interiors. Discuss. (Art Vandelay) » | « » 7:31 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Art Vandelay » | | My dad has one like this: |
Please explain me. Do these things have a frame? From the picture it looks like the front end is attached to the engine, the engine attaches to the transmission and the transmission is a transaxle with a built in rear end, to which everything else is attached to?
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| Re: FV-QR (Bah Humbug) » | « » 8:42 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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My dad's family, including him, was made up of farmers, all in NW Indiana. My folks didn't move to the city until I was 6, in 1959, when Dad went to work at the steel mills in Indiana Harbor and sold his farm. But all my uncles except one stayed on as farmers for the duration. So, growing up, when we took our regular trips to "make the rounds" and visit all the kinfolk, I got to spend pretty much the whole weekend messing around with farm machinery with my cousins, who showed me how things worked. Farm kids in Indiana back then were driving tractors, trucks, and even cars on the public roads at a very early age; it was accepted as part of the necessity of work, since everyone pitched in, and for example, when soybeans or corn were being picked by my uncles, who always drove the pickers or the combines, the boys and girls handled towing wagonloads of crop to the elevator for weigh-in and drop-off. That was my favorite time to visit the farms, harvest time, because I and my brother rode atop the beans or corn in the wagons, WAY up high in the air (we were kids), and it was just fun to watch the countryside go by, and listen to the tractor towing us drone away, and see the rain-cap on the vertical exhaust pipe bounce up and down. Farmers, at least my uncles (and my Dad) had very strong brand loyalties to "their tractors" then; they probably do today too. My dad was an Allis-Chalmers man; the orange color of an "Allis" is still a favorite color of mine. One uncle would have nothing but an Oliver tractor (they were a drabbish green with red wheels, IIRC), while another was committed to John Deere equipment (distinctive apple green with yellow wheels). My last uncle used Massey-Ferguson tractors and machinery; they were red. At family reunions, they would argue about the merits of each, sounding every bit like "fanboys", except that they were talking about agricultural machinery.
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| Re: FV-QR (vwlarry) » | « » 9:24 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Larry, you post sucks, it just reminded me how much things have changed and how much fun we could have . Even if I'm only 30 years old, there are things that were normal to me when I was a kid, but would send me straight to jail if I were to let my kids do it...Well, except for one... I read on a comic book, or a cartoon, that someone dropped a pebble into the tank of a car to check if it had gas. Well, to my 7 year old self it made sense, so I tried it with a tractor... It never crossed my mind what would happen to the stone, but I found out... And after they had to remove the tank to take it out, so the tractor could run, I was never allowed to play near the tractor again.
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| Re: (Wellington P Funk) » | « » 9:26 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Wellington P Funk » | | An ex-girlfriend of mine grew up on a hay farm in Upstate NY. Her dad only bought two brands of tractors -- Fords, and Belarus, the latter made in a former Soviet state. Apparently, every one of the Belarus tractors they had came from the factory with the shift pattern reversed: if the indicator said the forward gears were to the left, you'd have to shift to the right to actually find them. The Fords, apparently, did not share this problem. |
<--- from Belarus. Sometimes you'll tell me to go left and I go right instead. Maybe it's something in the air over there? 
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| FV-QR » | « » 9:32 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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I didn't drive the tractors on public roads, but I did drive them quite young... and that was in the '80s! I'm the first generation to not grow up as a farmer, but, strangely, even my grandparents had solid college educations. My farmer grandfather went to Yale, and my farmer grandmother went to Mt Holyoke.
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| Quote, originally posted by VadGTI » | <--- from Belarus. Sometimes you'll tell me to go left and I go right instead. Maybe it's something in the air over there?
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| Re: (Wellington P Funk) » | « » 10:28 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Wellington P Funk » | Backwards tractors built by backwards people. <-- Russky |
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| Re: It's a Friday, so here are some rusty old Fords with bad interiors. Discuss. (kerridwen) » | « » 10:37 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| FV-QR » | « » 10:43 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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^^^That is an excellent old tractor! It looks like it has fed quite a few generations.
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| Re: (vwlarry) » | « » 10:47 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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I'd forgotten about that clip!
When the lady told me about these backward Belarus tractors, I thought it was a chance for me to impress her and her pops. I know a little Russian, and I figured Pa's tractor problems came from not knowing how to read the Russian labels. A lot of Russian letters look like English, but with different sounds -- their "R" looks like our "P", their "P" looks like our "N", and as Homer found out, their "N" looks like our "H". So being the cocky guy I am, when I visited her on the farm I proclaimed "show me that crazy Communist tractor. I bet I can get it going forward on the first try". So she leads me to the barn and points out the most haggared looking radioactive orange tractor I've laid eyes on. I hop on, turn the key, curse at it in Russian til it fires, shift into first . . . and back into a hay bale. That day, I think karma balanced the books for something my great-grandfather did to a Belarussian.
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