Recent threads about old tractors vs new tractors made me reach out to my dad and ask for a list of the tractors he and my grandfather had on our two farms when I was a little kid to teenager. He horse traded tractors from time to time so we didn't have all of these at the same time, normally only 3-4 at a time. Here is the list, some big, some small:

Ford 8N
Ford 641 Workmaster
Ford 5000 w/ front end loader (I used this one the most)
Ford 8000. I vividly recall my grandfather riding on just the rear wheels row after row pulling a 20" ripper chisel plow behind a big blue tracotr...so I'm assuming it was the 8000. I was little.

John Deere 4020
John Deere 4640
John Deere 5020

Oliver 1800
Oliver 1700

Case 930 Rice Style

International Harvester 706 w/ turbo (pre Case merger) My dad bought it after someone had modified it for a pull tractor. Stock was 75 HP but had a turbo charger and ended up 125 HP after pulling modifications, converted to propane because it was a gas hog.

We always had 2 fords and 2 big John deer tractors the best I can remember....other ones would come and go. My agricultural and farm boy past is far far in the rearview mirror now...anyone have any comments on this list or any of your old favorites?

Case 706 Pull Tractor for reference

I bought 2 allis chalmers b models and fixed them up and sold them with the help of my Paw Paw when I was 18. I wish I’d kept one of them. I bought them for $250 each with belly mowers and sold them for $1500 and $1800 each.

I have never been to a tractor pull....on my bucket list

I never have cared for old tractors. I like the modern comforts of the 4230 to 4430 series and above.

Well back in the late 60's through early 80s, some of those were fairly modern for the time. The first curse word I ever heard my papa say was when he got in the first a/c cabbed tractor he ever owned...."Why the hell didn't we do this sooner?!?"

We had a JD 50. Those things had a sound you will never forget. Late in the day hearing that think pop, pop, pop down in the bottoms. Brings back fond memories.

Old tractors can't compete on today's real working farm, just like a 71 Chevelle isn't a very good commute car today. But you have to admit, they have a certain Cool factor.

You ain't been to a tractor pull till you've been to an antique pull. Nothin' like the sound of a G John Deere counting them off pulling a sled. I've seen 730's out pull tractors with twice as much HP.

Also had a Farmall M, super C and Cub still have all those but only the Cub runs. IH 574, 706, two 1066's and a 1266. Two JD 4020's couple more can't remember. Still have one 1066 and a 4020. Still run great.

I'm with 257 on comfort and convenience of modern tractors.

That being said, I don't think I have ever seen another tractor as pretty as a 4020 John Deere. My uncle Charles, a HELL of a man, had his repainted, with new sheet metal where needed, and new decals, in the late 80's. He bought it new in 1969.

When deere launched the 30 series with the soundguard cab in the late 70’s they left IH in the dust and never looked back

JD left IH in the dust when they launched the 10 series in 1960.

If you ain't ever spent 16 hour days in the set of a cabless tractor you ain't farmed 😉

We have a Massey 1155 at the farm. Loud is an understatement. Big V8 diesel and ended up taking the big chrome pipe off and putting a muffler on.

I like open stations at times but it’s not summer time for sure.

Cat, think about those old boys spent daylight till dark on a tractor with a metal pan seat.

Now that's one I ain't done LOL

But I have killed many a rabbit off the cab roof of a combine or platform of a picker as well a tractor seat cutting stalks. Wonder I ain't dead or in jail. Weird looking down on that head pulling in beans holding on with one had and a shotgun on the other. LOL

Yep. Rope around my waist so I wouldn't fall in a chewed up dead...killed tons of rabbits.

Rope.... naw 😀

I cultivated or plowed cotton in the early 90’s on a 4230 open cab all summer. Makes you appreciate the cabs way more