Anyone garden with these steel wheel tractors

FarmboyBill · #1 09/22/12, 04:22 PM

Walsh, Viking, Monarch, and Standard twin?

Smalltowngirl · #2 09/22/12, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

Walsh, Viking, Monarch, and Standard twin?

When we lived in WI, we had a Standard Twin. I left it behind when we moved 900 miles south but it was a very neat machine.
We also had a walk behind David Bradley tractor that came with a plow, blade & a spring harrow. I was strong but I had a heck of a time holding that thing back; it was very powerful.

uncle Will in In. · #3 09/22/12, 10:18 PM

Farmed with an F12 Farmall with steel wheels, but gardening was left for the women and kids. If hoes weren't sufficient they hooked an old plug horse to a walking pull behind cultivator. My 7 year old sister rode the horse and guided it while my 12 year old brother man handled the cultivator. They took care of a three acre pickle patch that way. Four kids picked that patch every three days.
But we didn't have a steel wheeled garden tractor.

FarmboyBill · #4 09/23/12, 01:02 PM

I am looking at getting 1 maybe 2 Standard Twins. Ive been talking to a guy in Topeka Kans for awhile about his. Hes got one thats painted up and comes with an implement for $500. I told him that I WOULD BUY IT when I got my next SS check, the second wed of Oct, so hes been waiting. Fri I got another post from a guy in ARK, with the same first name saying he had one with a sickle mower on it. He might trade for an old junk F-20 I have, and in which case, Id have 2. The first guy has some implements for his, so Ill be getting those at $100 a whack ea, that is, the ones he has that are made for the ST. Her said he had some implements made for DB. Ive got them myself, so I wouldnt buy them at all. I can get them nearly every month at the sale I go to.
Ive been watching some U Tubes of the twins in gardens. Looks neat to me.

jwal10 · #5 09/23/12, 05:30 PM

Are you going to do this instead of building a tractor? Smaller but will do good. I have a small 2 wheel walk behind mower, I use it to cut my meadow hay. My garden is small so do it by hand....James

RonM · #6 09/23/12, 07:24 PM

Uncle Will I had you outpowered we had an F-14 on steel, then changed it over to rubber.......I bet 90% of the people on here have no idea what we are even talking about.......Had to take the plugs out on a cold morning anf lay on the coal stove to warm up, before we ever started to crank..........

FarmboyBill · #7 09/23/12, 08:00 PM

Well The guy didnt want the 20, so Im down to one, Which is all I wanted anyway. Just couldnt go back on my word to the guy in Topeka.

HA, lol U lightweights. My first tractor that I ever paid for was a 20. Ive had 4 of them since 66 counting the one I have here now. Actually I have around 1 1/2 of them. Ive also had 2 30s. Gee. Wish I could have one of them again. U dont know power till your sit on onna thos.

FarmboyBill · #8 09/23/12, 08:05 PM

i hope I can get it down here before the 3rd week of Oct. There haveing an antique tractor show then, and id like to take it there. Ive not seen one since I was in grade school, so I guess around the mid west there kinda rare. Oughta be something interesting to show. His is painted already, and has extension rims on it.

FarmboyBill · #9 09/24/12, 09:03 AM

I was reading in a book on IHC that, at the unvailing of the Regular, IF you know what that was, that one farmer told a friend (yup, they look uglier than a mud hen, BUT if you dont want to buy one, u better not plant your _ _ _ on the seat.

FarmboyBill · #10 09/24/12, 09:05 AM

No JWAL I havnt givin up on the idea. Im thinking of takeing my Simplicity with gear shift and haveing the face plates made for its hubs and for the axles on the steel wheels. Im working on its engine now. Whether it runs or not will likely be the deciding factor.

uncle Will in In. · #11 09/24/12, 09:08 AM

Bill <> There were lots of old F20s and old Regulars around here. They were the most common. Some of the big boys had F30s. What a monster they were. They have nearly all dissapered because the hot-rod tractor pullers bought them and turned the frame and rear end upside down and put a couple V8 Chevy motors in them. That rear end was indestructable. They had to weigh under 5000 lbs to be in the hot rod class. With 8 straight pipes on each motor and either added to the carb for more power, it was just plain AWSOME to watch them flying down the track with the rear tire throwing dirt clear over the weight sled.

FarmboyBill · #12 09/24/12, 10:31 AM

Like I said, I have had 2 of them. The first, with hand brakes when I was around 21. I had it and a 20. Paid $200 for the 30 and $50 for the 20. Got 2nd D and lost DD and turned into a wino and let them both freeze up. Oughta still have my ___ kicked for that. Had the other around 8yrs ago. I loved it, but I could tell that someday Id be too old to throw it. Ya have to put everything and then some to get that crank started. But, when there running, man you can feel the power.

When I had the 20, I had a MM 2 14 plow. I had a 3 acre piece that was triangular and long. At the narrow tip, and when climbing the hill of it on one side the 20 had to work to get up the hill, and make the turn at the point. That 30 I think never knew it had a plow behind it, OR that there was a hill on the place.