I enjoy ready everyone of the threads here. My most fond memories of using tractors:
I'm still all with all my body parts intact.
Glad I no longer have the want to use a foreign tractor to clean milk parlor paddock and bush hog using tractors with no brakes.
Of the 3 dairy farms, all owned by the same person, one was leased out, of the six same foreign made tractors only one hard an operational single wheel brake the other wheel brake didn't work.
After several months of using one particular tractor of the two on one farm I later realized it was the scrape blade that had been stopping the tractor and not the brakes, it wasn't until then I was told neither tractor had working brakes. This was after I had jumped on the tractor and managed to stop it before it went into a very deep ditch after I loaded the hay shredder with a round bale.
The second incident happened when two of us from the second farm were sent to help out on the leased farm.
There while scraping the milk parlor paddock I got to close to the edge where the manure went down the chute to the lagoon. Lifted the blade and the tractor started to slide down the manure chute to the lagoon. Afterwards I was told neither of the tractors on this farm had working brakes.
Prior to the owner selling out the owner invited all the workers to the main farm. On our way there as I was about to ask, in unison the fellows I worked with said, nope the tractors here don't have working brakes either.
Years later I took my stud horse to my folks place to breed a mare. He had a bought small well used Massey it had working brakes, but it always seemed it had to be worked on every morning when we had work to do. If we just wanted to move here or there, load up a hay wagon for a hayride it was always working fine. So we claimed; Guess we have a lazy Massey or Ferguson, one in every crowd.
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Now my stepdad has 2 tractors to play with, but no farm land to play on. Both tractors are old fairly reliable Ford's.