Tractor done gone

my 190XT series 3 that I bought new. Traded it on a new 7040. it's gone to. Just didn't have the money to hang on to the old.

A 200 with factory cab and ac. It was fun to run, but I had to sell it to be able to afford my 7045. The 200 was ok, but it sure wasn't a 7045PS with M&W pistons.

Dad and brother bought a 190XT Series III new in 1972. One of the best tractors we ever had. Traded in for a 7000. Wish we still had it. rrhead(SD)

D14 with heavy industrial loader.   It was rough but would have been good to keep in the family.  I got the bug and some extra money about four years too late.

I let dad's 7045 maroon belly PS get away in 1986.  I was still wet behind the ears and didn't have a clue.  What a dope.

Edited by Stan IL&TN - 17 Feb 2010 at 9:21pm

You all will hate me for saying this, but when I got my little farm, I talked to dad and got the WD45 diesel and fixed it up and the orange blood has been pumping ever since.   In the meantime, unknown to me about a year after I got my 45 diesel from my dad, he decided without telling me to sell his JD 730 diesel with pony start.  The engine was tight from sitting but it had brand new rubber, a 4? bottom plow, and a loader that was sitting in the weeds.  My dad sold it to someone for, get this 2000.  He then called me and told me and I almost cried.  I found out later that his grandson, my nephow offered  him 3300 for it a year earlier and he wouldn't sell it to him.  I talked to him the other day about it, and I have been pushing him to go up on a Saturday and visit the guy who bought it from him, and I want to talk to him and at least if he ever wants to sell it, I want to at least have the option of buying it first.  I know, I know, it's a JD, but it was one of the original tractors that my dad had on the farm.  It was also fixed up by my brother and my grandpa one summer when my brother was a teenager, and he was the one who pushed my dad to sell it cause it was taking up space in my brothers shop.  I will never understand that. 

D10 Series II

Dad says he and Grandpa ordered a long block for a WD45, right after the D17s came out.  Sure enough, the crate was labeled D17.  SO, somewhere near Beatrice Nebraska is a WD45 with a D17 engine!  Dad just talked about that one last week!

Trading my 220FWA off. It had 24.5x32mand 18,4 for duals and 225 hp on the pto.

I know it the wrong color,but I had a late 1953 stage II super H Farmall that I bought from the original owener. I pulled in a lot of wagon loads of seed corn with when I worked for him in high school.I had a belly mounted, balanced head mower on it. It was sweet to mow side ditches with.I got the bug for one of those green JD things and sold it. I really miss it but I like my WD.     

i am glad to say that every tractor my dad has bought he still has. it all started with a d17. the one that's in danger right now is the 185 diesel that has been turbo'd by previous owner (i don't have any knowledge what this involves, but looks factory, so looks like it was done right) . it has an engine problem and we have not taken it apart to find out whats wrong with it (losing water badly and is in oil) but that tractor ran great. it had no turbo lag and i just loved the power that thing had. i am hoping someday to fix the engine and use it and do not sell it.

I've never let one go, just kept on getting more.

Regrets; Parting out my Dad's WD (the only tractor he ever owned) 35 years ago before I had any thoughts like I have now. Also selling my first farm tractor in 1980, a D-21 that I bought when I started farming in 1975. The good news is that I have what was a neighbours WD and there is a D-21 in the shed again.