tractors at the house

When I moved in my house for the first 2 years ther were some parade and antique pulling tractors for fairgrounds in my barn. dont know what some of them were. AN oliver


A farmall M and H, and two others





The forn 8N was the only one that came with the house. It was not parade quality.
The others had been sitty in my barn for about 8 years ever since the owner passed.

My wife has the pics of the actual tractors from when the guys sons came and took them home.

Sounds like u need to get a Farmall Ohmar over an 8N. Jus ask Ev im sure hed agree

seem cheap enough, what do I need to run a 6 ft 3 pt. PTO finish mower , mower is only a few years old, got it free

doesnt take much to power a mower jus got to find one wit a 3 pt hitch i think a C or a Super C would be good for that. Id say H, but if your just mowin wit it you dont need much.

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

Sounds like u need to get a Farmall Ohmar over an 8N. Jus ask Ev im sure hed agree

Yeah right!

Don't get me wrong...I have nothing against Farmall's, but if I had to pick between a Farmall and an 8N, I'd choose the 8N anyday. My dad bought his 8N in 1984, and other than a rebuild in about 1990 and routine maintenance, nothing has ever really gone wrong with it. Here's a pic:

I thinkthey should of painted all of them blue i like how it looks better than that gray. My gpa Rednour had a 400 and and 8N. The 8N never ran that i can remember.

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

I thinkthey should of painted all of them blue i like how it looks better than that gray. My gpa Rednour had a 400 and and 8N. The 8N never ran that i can remember.

That tractor has been painted that way ever since he bought it. Someday we'll put it back to red and gray. I also like them painted blue and white...blue belly with white sheet metal and wheels.

or u can jus paint it all red. ill give you a paint code IH2150

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

or u can jus paint it all red. ill give you a paint code IH2150

On a Ford???...nah!

Someone locally took an old Bolens tractor like mine and painted it all red and put IH decals on it. I'll get a picture of it if it shows up at the shows this summer.

prolly gave that bolens more HP i thought bout doin that to the Gilson b4 i gutted it

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

prolly gave that bolens more HP i thought bout doin that to the Gilson b4 i gutted it

I'm sure it did!

I thought you were going to paint the Yeo up like that?

no ill paint the YEO the way it should be lol but any MTD that gets in my hands maybe will get some RED POWER

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

no ill paint the YEO the way it should be lol but any MTD that gets in my hands maybe will get some RED POWER

Well thats all well and good...but I don't think paint is going to make an MTD any better!!! (unless its an MTD 990)

we should ask John if paintin a Murray a diff color of red helps

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

we should ask John if paintin a Murray a diff color of red helps

Well it still struggled to pull the Huskee so I would say NO!!!!

that tells you MTD is better than Murray

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

that tells you MTD is better than Murray

Well, I wouldn't bet my life savings on that statement...but the old MTD tractors were actually pretty well built...I won't even talk about the newer stuff!

ill take a dirty ol penny over a new one. If u see wat im sayin

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

ill take a dirty ol penny over a new one. If u see wat im sayin

Yeah...I have to agree with ya there in most circumstances.

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

we should ask John if paintin a Murray a diff color of red helps

Well............not really

its close to the same shade of red, but not quite

Evan(PA) wrote:

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

we should ask John if paintin a Murray a diff color of red helps

Well it still struggled to pull the Huskee so I would say NO!!!!

That was just cus of the extra wheels. If it didnt have that dead axle i could drag the Huskee around all day with the brakes on.

Evan(PA) wrote:

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

no ill paint the YEO the way it should be lol but any MTD that gets in my hands maybe will get some RED POWER

Well thats all well and good...but I don't think paint is going to make an MTD any better!!! (unless its an MTD 990)

I was about to get upset and start setting up some challenges.
You know our buddy that does the Tractor rodeo said that the 990 won the heavier competitions in its weight class which would be around 920 lbs at the first tractor rodeo this year. Not a deere not a case BUt a big fat ugly MTD hooooyaaaa

ohmar99 wrote:

Evan(PA) wrote:

Jared Olson for SO IL wrote:

no ill paint the YEO the way it should be lol but any MTD that gets in my hands maybe will get some RED POWER

Well thats all well and good...but I don't think paint is going to make an MTD any better!!! (unless its an MTD 990)

I was about to get upset and start setting up some challenges.
You know our buddy that does the Tractor rodeo said that the 990 won the heavier competitions in its weight class which would be around 920 lbs at the first tractor rodeo this year. Not a deere not a case BUt a big fat ugly MTD hooooyaaaa

I was talkin bout new MTDs. I dont think id have a problem wit a old one

Dont worry Jared, I wasnt going to challenge your tractors, (maybe Johnny) even with you driving them
Maybe if I add some water and fertilizer to mine.