What was your 1st tractor ?

[Rusty_Relics]

Hi All,
As the title says what was your 1st tractor ??
I learned to drive at the age of 7 on a Grey Ferguson TED20 (petrol/T.V.O) which belongs to my dad, we still have it.
But the 1st tractor I bought with my own money was a 1938 Allis Chalmers M Crawler.
The reason being, As a kid my dad would never buy crawlers. He said "you'll kill yourself, get wrapped up in the tracks or go through the back of the barn !"
Lol.

What was your 1st tractor ?

Thanks,
Carl Hargreaves

 

[yellowbelly]

Depends how you define your first tractor

I suppose this Fordson Major doesn't count as I'm not actually driving it.

This MF35 was new the year that I started school in 1961. Pictured on it on my first day.....

......we still had it when I left school at 16 and it became the first tractor I drove for a living.

The first tractor I bought, when I started contracting on my own, was a MF595. 1976......P reg.

 

[Two Tone]

First tractor I ever drove was a MF65
First tractor I ever had when I started work was a 1976 P reg MF 595.
First tractor I ever bought solely in my own name was a Ford 8340 SLE. I still have her.

 

[jf850]

The first tractor I ever drove was a 1961 Fordson Dexta , when I was 6 ...
We are both still here , but the Dexta hasn't moved since 1991 . Wont part with it .

The 1 st tractor I bought , was a 1967 MF 165 with the Perkins 203 . Sold it 20 odd years ago.

 

[yellowbelly]

First tractor I ever had when I started work was a 1976 P reg MF 595.

Jeeez, I hope it wasn't mine - I only kept it a year, it had 3 or 4 clutches in 14 or 1500 hours. It couldn't hack all the stopping and backing up (no bale kickers back then ) with that round baler.

 

[Spud]

First I drove was a 1979 Ford 5600 in iirc 1985(still have it - it was the first one dad bought)
First I bought was a 1994 MF3075 in 2003 (still have that too!)

 

[Farmer Roy]

First tractor I bought was this about 25 years ago. Case 2670 with 4 wheel steering
It was fairly “second hand” even back then. This pic was taken today, still have it

 

[Two Tone]

Jeeez, I hope it wasn't mine - I only kept it a year, it had 3 or 4 clutches in 14 or 1500 hours. It couldn't hack all the stopping and backing up (no bale kickers back then ) with that round baler.

No, this one was brand new. Utter heap of crap it was too!

 

[Two Tone]

Jeeez, I hope it wasn't mine - I only kept it a year, it had 3 or 4 clutches in 14 or 1500 hours. It couldn't hack all the stopping and backing up (no bale kickers back then ) with that round baler.

No, this one was brand new. Utter heap of crap it was too!

 

[yellowbelly]

No, this one was brand new. Utter heap of crap it was too!

The 595 wasn't MF's finest moment.
To be fair, the dealer (or most probably MF) stood behind it, so it wasn't the financial cost but more the loss of use of a new tractor.
Part exchanged it for a Ford 7700 -YTL 34S, that was on it's second lap round the clock when it left.

 

[Red Fred]

The first one I drove was dad's IH414 yard scraper but the first one that everyone called mine was a new DB996 which dad gave me the keys to when he found he couldn't get through the triangular doors so I ended up driving it. First one at work was a Ford 6700 at my first job, bought my own little IH B250 in 1986 and it is still working for a living and the first brand new one was the Stockman Special 895 in 1992.

 

[Nithsdale]

First tractor I ever drove was a F-reg Deutz Fahr dx3.65

But at that time we had a DB1390 which was my favourite, and a SAME Explorer 90 (which we still have).

First one (and only one really) which was called my tractor was a SAME Explorer 70 with Riko loader. Used it every single day for about 2 years when I first left school

 

[Vincent]

First one I drove was a MF 35 my dads one still here and bought a very second hand Zetor 8011for hedge cutting.

 

[kevindb880]

1st tractor I had the pleasure of driving was a IH 574, 1st new tractor was a Case IH 895xl, 2nd was a Case IH 1056xl now drive JD6630, 1056 was by far the best in its day if not ever!

 

[DrWazzock]

1st tractor I ever drove was a MF135 bought brand new in 1977 or 8. I am still driving it 40 years later.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

T 20 was the first, and the first one of my own I bought was a Leyland 272 Syncro. Wish I still had the Leyland.

 

[Right-arm fast]

The first I ever drove was a 1976 IH 674 would have been in the early eighties though turning hay, pulling out the rain gun in the sugar beet and topping were the order of the day back then. Sold it to a mate 20 years ago so still see it every now and again.

 

[DrWazzock]

I have always regretted selling machinery but the shed just isng big enough.
When I think back at how father farmed 200 acres with an MF65, an MF35 and an MF135 I sometimes wonder if we have really progressed at all. He also ran a 1960's era MF780 special combine and Catchpole Cadet trailed beetharvester and the usual small implements associated with a mixed farm. It all fitted in a very small area and didn't cost a lot to maintain. The biggest extravagance was when he bought a Muir Hill to do some contracting but he sold it and bought a MF165 for his own use as he got all the stony ploughing jobs with the Muir Hill.

 

[SMID]

35 4 cyl , I was perched on the wing from 4yo , I was 7 when Father was ploughing dropped the plough in at the end and say" yea want a shot " , aye says me , his parting words as he walked away was dont make the finishes. Although a new 35X multi power came the following year when the second hand 65 multi power came it was my yoke, A new 185 was the first new one and still red ones since.

 

[Netherfield]

Super Dexta 1963 ACX 765A, fitted with MIL loader