Farm tractor/ machinery dream team

Going back to your youth imagine what you would have liked to seen on the family farm but did not due to lack of money or other reason. For me it would be a JD 2520 diesel and Oliver 1550 tractors in addition to the three we already had. NH 469 haybine to take the place of the 7 foot sickle bar and crusher. IH 510 grain drill with disc openers to take the place of the old hoe drill. Extra hay and silage wagon along with gravity wagon. Not that we were terribly equipped but those pieces I mentioned would have made life much nicer.

I would say a G900 or G950 MM along with an M670 Super MM, or a G1000 or G1050 MM. There were so many good tractors of the mid to late 1960s of all brands so it is hard to choose on some.

Those are some good tractors.

I have a G950 and an M670 Super and a few other MMs. Those two are nice driving tractors. I like the 830 and 930 Case Comfort Kings as well.

Dad most always kept good tractors on the farm as well as good harvesting equipment since that's what he ran, but that's where it ended. A good 5-18's auto reset plow and 16' disc and cultivator with a spring tooth drag would have been a godsend for me. A pipeline in the barn too since we used delaval buckets and a stepsaver to milk 70 cows til after I left.

My dream machine would have been a large round baler so we could have handled the hay
with tractor power instead of armstrong power.And my 1365 4WD Oliver to get around in the snow.

In the mid 60's one of those BIG 4020's with a cab! All we had was medium sized two bangers.

I would have liked gutter cleaners and silo unloaders along with some self unloading wagons.

We had two gutter cleaners and two silo unloaders. Me and my brother. LOL that was back in the 40's and 50's.

I would have loved to have a tractor and hay making equipment to take place of the horse drawn stuff and coiling hay

I can't even imagine what life would have been like with a skid steer. I spent my youth dreading hog house cleaning. We did a lot of it, too. The loader tractor wouldn't fit in as it was too tall, so we pitched it all in manure spreaders with ensilage forks. I'll never forget how impressed I was when I came home and found a spreader that used pto instead of the horse drawn one we had been using. That is, until I realized it still didn't fill itself.

Never saw a really good stand of corn till we bought a 7000 JD planter. A IH 285 worked well with pinto beans and sugar beets.

I have a 4020 power shift. Hard to ask for better

"I have a 4020 power shift. Hard to ask for better"

I agree, and, even MORE better, have two of 'em, a gas and a diesel.

Coiling hay....is that the different length of strips of steel that were behind the sickle bar for rolling the hay in to a row? Ive seen those in an older movie once.

I really bad wanted a dump truck, I hated shoveling off the truck when hauling sawdust.

A four row cultivator would have sure been nice. Trying to get over 300 acres of row crops twice with an 8N and 2 row Ferguson cultivator seemed like it took all summer. It took that 5 ft BMB mower quite a while to get over 130 acres of pasture too. gm

My dream is; I wish my brother and I could ride on the 4 row cultivator again that my dad had on his Farmall 560 diesel. We would spend hours riding on that while dad cultivated soybeans. Then I wish we could ride on the old Gleaner E (no cab) combine again together. Then there is the wish we could all bale straw again. We would talk about so much while we walked the stubble fields picking up straw bales and tossing them on the wagon while dad stacked. We would have some friends help and all of us would be up in the loft while dad put the bales on the elevator. Mom always had a good lunch for us at the end of the day. We really never wanted any other equipment. I was on top of the world back then on any piece of equipment that I got to operate.

I had a dream one time of coming off the west end of the George Washington bridge driving a brand new 1949 John Deere model A tractor that was correct in every respect. It was pulling what appeared to be every piece of farm machinery ever made all molded into one. I was headed for my farm in Wisconsin which was 1100 miles away but I knew about a short cut. At somewhere around Teterboro, I turned off I-80 onto this "shortcut" across a rough field. The hitch broke. From out of nowhere, two little men appeared and offered to help. They knew of a place to fix the hitch but we'd have to walk back to the "road". The "road" turned out to be a high speed thoroughfare with little cars about 3' high going about 200 mph. And we had to get across. I suggested we go down the road aways and find a steep enough hill to cause the little cars to slow down. We did that and found a totally vertical hill which we scaled across. We were hungry and they knew of a restaurant. It was a large building and when we entered it there was a very large auditorium which was empty but up around the edges of it, about 20' up, was a conveyor of sorts that had many Holstein cows on it, just riding around and round. They said we could get sandwiches in a back room but when we got there, there were only crumbs left. We travelled on to the place where the hitch could be fixed. We were invited into a large two story house by a little old farm lady wearing an apron. She took us into the living room which had large red Snap-On tool boxes lining the walls. She explained that this was not the place to get the hitch fixed and the Snap-On tools were for the two year old boy in diapers to play with but we could get the hitch fixed "out back". We went out the back door and found that the "stoop" of the back door was one of those little 3' high cars we'd seen out on the "road". We crawled through it and headed down a path for a corn crib that had a mailbox in front of it. That was where I woke up and never did get that hitch fixed. As far as I know, that John Deere A and it's stange piece of equipment in tow is still sitting in a field near Teterboro, NJ. If anyone sees it or knows about it, please give me a shout. My Email is open. (;>))