This is a tractor I bought from a guy I met shortly after we moved to Kansas. He had it sitting out in his pasture for about three years. He told me he moved it there when he bought a new John Deere. I asked him if it ran and he said it did when he drove it out there and parked it. I took the crank off and manually turned it over and it was not seized up (luckily the manifold had been kept covered). I was surprised something that old would still turn over. A few weeks ago, my buddy Randy went with me to get it running. We pulled it out of the pasture and worked on it for a little while. It didn't take us long to get it running good enough to load it onto the trailer.
I have been spending the better part of the last two weeks sandblasting it and priming it. I just painted it tonight so it looks much different. It has been a very interesting process watching it transform into what it looks like now. Amazingly, they still make parts for this thing. I will be painting the back wheels this week and getting it put back together. I'll post pictures of the finished product when it's all done.
Hopefully, this is what I will be mowing my own hay with next year. I also came across a two bottom plow and a two-row planter. This should really help us get the farming operation into full swing.
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