Do you name your tractors?

[fermerboy]

I bought a New Holland 7840 in a pile of bits as a project, my mate insisted I gave it a name due to the Bad Obsession Motorsport youtube project Mini called Binky.
So my 78 was christened "Basil" , not sure if it was after Basil Fawlty/faulty after the amount of error codes it threw up or after its birth place Basildon.
The name has stuck and it is referred to as Basil by everybody now.
Some of the others aren't called such nice names....

 

[Red Fred]

A couple of my fathers tractors had names when I was a kid, one Fordson Major was known as Lulu (as its number plate was LOU)

Our Land Rover was called Sue for the same reason, SOU 938G. I think OU was a fairly local code. My student 6700 was Little Nell as it had the Bournemouth plate NEL. The Allis is always Alice, as I bet almost every one is, and the IH674 and 895s are the Donkies, because they came from Doncaster.

 

[FG.]

I'm on first name terms with all my old Deere's....48, 69, 64, 28 gets a bit awkward in the summer when we get 21's out tho

 

[Veryfruity]

Explaining which tractor to seasonal employees in French can be challenging so I paint a weight a different color.

Voilà, as we say

We had a Massey industrial that was called Roy after the OH’s great uncle who worked at Banner lane all his life.

 

[Drillman]

Surely you've named the fleet of discos after the 7 dwarves?

Nearly is no Snow White

 

[sputnik]

Not a tractor but this Swedish built trailers with the name Hill could have the first name Benny
They were often used to spread sewage sludge

 

[Spud]

Mostly first names here:
7720 - the seven seven
7620 - the seven six
7618 - the eighteen
7490 - the seventy four
6480 - the sixty four
3075 - the seventy five
5600 - the five six
530/70 - the five thirty
536/70 - the five three six
TM320s - the Tee Emm

Most of them get called 'ord lass' at some point.
Pulling to a stop sometimes 'Whoa Emma Jayne' or 'Whoa Esmeralda'

All can get called other (shorter) names should the decide to break or refuse to start!

 

[bluebell]

many years ago, late 1980s about, i was coming out of does yard at ulting, saw a john deere tractor go past on the main road with lady di painted on the side of the bonnet in white script?

 

[Dave W]

Nearly is no Snow White

Bit of a princess though

 

[yorkie]

some one christened my 8750 Valtra Valeri

 

[jamj]

A couple of my fathers tractors had names when I was a kid, one Fordson Major was known as Lulu (as its number plate was LOU) and another Major was known as 'The Jenny Tractor' for reasons I never did get to the bottom of And I've just remembered another Major was known as 'The Commodore', again for reasons unknown. The first two are still with us, my sister has Jenny as a logsplitter tractor, and Lulu was sold to and restored by a chap in Northern Ireland. Sadly the Commodore caught fire while baling one day in the late 70s and after a period of being a spares donor was finally scrapped.

I'm guessing that tractors after that had more numbers to identify them so the names seemed to die out.

Used for driving the generator?

 

[oakleaf]

the youngest tractor is 'the new tractor' until a newer one arrives.

A farm near here has a 1989 Ford 6610 that is called "the new tractor".

 

[Dave W]

A farm near here has a 1989 Ford 6610 that is called "the new tractor".

No one likes a show off

 

[oakleaf]

At home we had
Harry, the grey 20 because everyone called them Fergy.
Henry, the super major.
Our Nuffield Universal 4 was just "The big Nuffo"

My uncle just called every tractor he owned Suzy. We would go there for sunday lunch now and then and my aunt always said to me "uncle Jim is out in the shed playing with Suzy, go tell him dinners ready". The first time it happened l asked if Suzy was coming for dinner too. This was met with howls of laughter from all the adults. l just thought all the grown ups were stupid.

A farm l worked on had
Little Massey, 135 (no cab)
Big Massey, 590 (cramped cab)
The Hotel, 2640 (huge cab)

 

[Red Fred]

Our DB996 was sometimes jokingly referred to as "The Crystal Palace" because of all the slidy windows in the back of the cab.

 

[oakleaf]

No one likes a show off

To distinguish it from the 1984 one which is called Colm Shift.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Used for driving the generator?

I wondered if this was case maybe spelt genny

 

[Drillman]

Bit of a princess though

More a Disco Queen

 

[Goweresque]

I wondered if this was case maybe spelt genny

That had occurred to me too, the slight problem being we never had a generator
Having thought about it a bit more I have a vague recollection the name was actually invented by one of the farm workers at the time.

 

[Hesstondriver]

ive called my old ford 655 digger 'gibson' after guy gibson - dam busters. because it feels like driving a Lancaster, noisey, slow, hard to stop and can destroy a lot of things !

now when i take it down the track i cant get dam busters theme tune out my head !