anybody else here into tractors

[Ronald Zeeman]

having lived on a farm during my teenage years. I have developed an interest in the history of tractors. just waiting for covid to end so we can visit some ractor museums.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

I drive a ford 600 made in 1956

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Its a beast, broke down yesterday thank god. Metal seat, exhaust pipe sticks up in front, so you can smell it all day, runs like a dream. I painted it red white and blue

 

[Aspychata]

I need a tractor to remove 3 of my neighbors, their houses, their vehicles. Their boring montone conversations that they shout to each about. I estimate two tonka size dump trucks. But this fantasy is free, so don't knock it.☺
We could throw red white and blue confetti afterwards.

 

[Magna]

My Dad has an old Ford tractor that still uses.

I have one of these that I found and pulled out of our back yard:

Only mine looks more like this condition:

I think it would be fun to restore it and get it working sometime. I could use it around my garden.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Its a beast, broke down yesterday thank god. Metal seat, exhaust pipe sticks up in front, so you can smell it all day, runs like a dream. I painted it red white and blue

If you ever need advise in painting it , I'm your guy, expert on industrial painting. tractor almost as old as me.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Ive never seen anything like that, is it from europe? It looks like an old fashioned mower blade with a motor. I have seen the blade style on pre war pull behind mowers

 

[Skittlebisquit]

If you ever need advise in painting it , I'm your guy, expert on industrial painting. tractor almost as old as me.

Thank you. Currently the strategy is to do a traditional finish known locally as "scuff and squirt"

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Seriously though i do need advice. I need to treat rust and then paint by section. What works well for treating rust? It used to be called "naval jelly" and would turn rust purple, that was, well, it was quite some time ago. I think perhaps 1998 i ladt saw that stuff for sale here. Do you know what i am talking about?

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Seriously though i do need advice. I need to treat rust and then paint by section. What works well for treating rust? It used to be called "naval jelly" and would turn rust purple, that was, well, it was quite some time ago. I think perhaps 1998 i ladt saw that stuff for sale here. Do you know what i am talking about?

Zinc Phosphate, sand to exposed metal. apply keep damp (towel) for maybe twenty minutes. look for nice grey coating of zinc phosphate crystals. prime and paint.

 

[Magna]

Ive never seen anything like that, is it from europe? It looks like an old fashioned mower blade with a motor. I have seen the blade style on pre war pull behind mowers

The pictures I posted are examples of a two wheeled "walk behind" tractor made by the David Bradley Company in the USA. They were common until the 1960s and were sold by Sears & Roebuck. You could order them from the Sears catalogs.

Yes, that's a mower blade on the front of the one in poor condition, but it's not permanently fixed. It's an attachment. Like four wheeled tractors, the David Bradley two wheel tractors had a lot of attachments that were available for it from things like the sickle mower attachment to cultivators, discs, a timber saw, tillers, etc.

No safety guards on this attachment.

Or this one.

Clearly those attachments were designed and sold in an era where people took personal responsibility and accepted risk.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Best site, tractor data.com love this site.

 

[Aspychata]

Why not spend a few dollars to buy some toys for them from the adult book shop, and have them shipped as a gift signed "M"

I think l would go the endless amount of pizza deliveries. That would be more dastardly entertaining.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Zinc Phosphate, sand to exposed metal. apply keep damp (towel) for maybe twenty minutes. look for nice grey coating of zinc phosphate crystals. prime and paint.

Thanks i will try that

 

[Skittlebisquit]

The pictures I posted are examples of a two wheeled "walk behind" tractor made by the David Bradley Company in the USA. They were common until the 1960s and were sold by Sears & Roebuck. You could order them from the Sears catalogs.

Yes, that's a mower blade on the front of the one in poor condition, but it's not permanently fixed. It's an attachment. Like four wheeled tractors, the David Bradley two wheel tractors had a lot of attachments that were available for it from things like the sickle mower attachment to cultivators, discs, a timber saw, tillers, etc.

No safety guards on this attachment.

Or this one.

Clearly those attachments were designed and sold in an era where people took personal responsibility and accepted risk.

That Is the scariest thing i have ever seen. Its got to have a clutch on it somehow right!?

 

[Skittlebisquit]

This beautiful machine

 

[Sherlock77]

Tractor fuel... I've made many trips to a local farm museum for their annual show, I'm not a farmer but I do like any moving vehicle...

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Thanks i will try that

If you have any issues let me know world class expert in this area, went on a tractor forum once.
There was always some alpha male, body shop types that got offended, with no knowledge of chemistry so I left. thier loss.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Tractor fuel... I've made many trips to a local farm museum for their annual show, I'm not a farmer but I do like any moving vehicle...

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That one looks old enough to be powered by steam! What a great pic

 

[Sherlock77]

The big boys, an early Case tractor, as seen at Pioneer Acres here in Alberta...