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Favorite tractor when growing up

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My favorite childhood tractor was my uncles MM 670 Super...used to disk and cultivate with that tractor for hours...and the best thing was he had a radio...listened to WLS...lol. After that my 4-H leader had a pair of old diesel powered Oliver Super 88s. Loved those old babies...used to roll them down the hill and pop the clutch to start them...lol. The things I did as a young kid. Favorite tractor I never operated but always wanted to drive when I was young and thought was cool as heck...those IH 1468s with the V-8...remember seeing one with a big chrome straight pipe...that would have been a fine ride in the field.
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Ford 7000 Michael Keaton's ranch next door owned it so dad and grandpa told me I was running the bat mobile tractor. I took it when we sold that Montana ranch it started when nothing else would in the winter. Eventually sold it to a coworker he loves it 6k hrs and running like a top
My Favorite tractor was my dads IH 656 Hydro on the feeder Wagon. burned a gallon of oil for every tank of diesel, but I never got over listening to that run every morning and every evening to feed the cattle.
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Have 2.
An International 300U
As well as an International 460 Diesel.
Learned to drive the 300 when I was 7. Picking stones and roots. I have the one I grew up with, and two more. Love those tractors.
Mine was a MF35 Deluxe. This was my Great Gandfather's tractor and the first I learned to drive. I still have it to this day and still use it; great little tractors.
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I would have to say my favorite tractor growing up was our ford 2600 diesel. I remember every spring and every fall tilling our 20 acre field with a 7ft 3pt disk. No cab, no radio. Even though it would take me about a good 8 hours to cover the whole field, and if it was hard soil and dry that year I would have to go over it twice to get a decent seed bed. I did this from the age of 8 to 19, then the field was passed down to me and now I work it with a JD 5100e with a cab and a 12ft pull type disk. even though it was not to much fun with the old ford, I will always remember it. I also just bought the tractor from my dad and I just got done with fall tillage, with the old 2600. I just wanted to bring back old memories. We now have 8700 hours on the tractor, with I have never heard of a 2600 with that many hours on it, it is just built like a tank and keeps trucking along.
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We have had the D17 as long as I can remember. That tractor has done everything from baling to pulling a wagon load of boy scouts out back camping. The spring seat suspension bounced me around a bit I can remember the 1st time I threw the hi/ low range hand lever forward after dropping the a hay wagon at edge of hay field. I feel the D17 will be running even after I run out of gas.
My favorite is a tough choice. My old 8n served me well, but the Case 431 diesel is a great tractor also. I still have that case.
Dad had a moline 670 that one’s pretty special uncle had a farmall m first tractor I got to drive guy I worked for had an ih 1206 another favorite but a d17 Allis has to be the one out of tractor I personally owned
Growing up my grandpa had about 100 2 cylinder john deere tractors and I loved every one of them as a kid, playing on them and jumping on all of them pretending I was a big farmer. But he had a 856 that everytime he let me go for a ride on it I felt like that was the best tractor ever built in my little kid mind. Then I would plow with it when I got older and still loved that thing, obviously years later I realized it wasn't the greatest tractor ever but I sure do still love to see it.
I learned to drive and spent the majority of seat hours in our Ford 7000. Favorite is between that on and this one.

Tire Wheel Sky Cloud Vehicle


Just bought it off of my grandfather last weekend.
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