Where do you park your tractor?
 

I've been considering purchasing a small tractor to help clear my land, fence posts, garden work, etc, etc, but I do not have a place to store it out of the weather yet.

So if you have a tractor big or small....where do you park it? I know some of the large tractors get kept outside like a car or truck do.

Mines parked in the yard or whereever I shut it off pop a can over the exaust pipe and call it good . granted its a 1950 wd and has spent 90% of its life out in the weather. The only time it wouldnt start this winter was when the destributor was fully encased in ice

our tractors sit out in all kinds of weather, if you do park inside a building then get a battery disconnect switch, lessens the chance of a fire. have seen a lot of burnt tractors due too electrical faults.

Mine are in the dry

machine shed like a car if they are kept out of the weather its not as hard on them.

Ours sits outside. usually under the trees. Farmer next door has four tractors. they all sit outside. of course, he uses his every day during the summer, so they get a LOT of TLC.

When we purchased our loader/backhoe (Deere 301) it had been kept in a barn all it's life. Was 10 years old (i think) and looks brand new. :shrug:

Too many things to put inside that really NEED to be inside, I guess. So our tractors will continue to live outdoors :)

They are outside in summer and in the quansets in the winter.

Outside right now hid behind the shipping container. Kind of hard to hide a tractor when you don't have any trees. Just as soon as we complete the 1500 sq ft workshop it will be living in there. The sun here is really hard on things and is turning some of the black plastic a whitish color on the steering wheel.

Sure prefer a shed to put them in.

Cover the exaust if you leave them outside, rain down the pipe is a bad, bad thing.

--->Paul

It's much too personal of a question to answer...


LOL!

Mine is in a leanto built on the side of the barn.

One end of my barn is a garage with a big sliding door. It is kept in there during the winter and outside often in the summer.

Now, mine sits inside a nice dry garage. But soon it will be outsted to a leanto on the side of the garage. Vette takes priority. It will be dry but will get a lot of humidity. Might require more distributor maintenance. Other than that, I expect it to be fine.

Everything I spend money to buy gets put under a shed somewhere...I guess that's why I'm constantly putting up more barn sheds (using salvaged lumber and tin)! I just can't see the sense in paying for something and then leaving it out in the weather...I've seen too many neighbors' equipment rusted through or wore out by sitting through too much rain/hail/sleet/etc. If I buy it I'm most certainly gonna care for it. I have been caught in a storm with equipment out, but that's not the norm, just a choice of whether the hay gets put out of the rain first or the tractor! Tractor will dry out, fresh baled hay won't! Equipment may last 40 years sitting out, but how much longer will it last if it's protected?

we built a lean to on the chicken coop (large coop) to start with and then enlaged and enclosed the area to include the feed, tractor has always been under cover.

We keep them all under roof either at dad's or at my place, I have a pole barn where I keep my 3020 John Deere. Here are some of the "restored" antiques we keep at dad's.

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Since Saturday evening it's been stuck in the manure pile but it's usually in the mow. Hopefully, it will be back in the mow by tonight. :)

Stacy

The farm tractor is parked under one of those metal covered car shelters/sheds they sell in this area. They had a special on them a few years ago for $595. The bigger tractors are parked in the open, but my brother and I are planning to build a shed for them too. We need to find some utility poles to start the project.

I have a 14' x 21' port-a-hut on order for our tractor (which is also on order). Later when we get the shop build, the port-a-hut will be perfect as a goat or sheep barn. 8' ceiling.

The Wandering Quilter's Life in a Box!

I bought a new 790 John Deere in 2003 and it has not spent one night outside.

I've seen tractors that were stored inside a barn or garage since 1950 and they look great today. More common is tractors that have been sitting outside since 1950 they don't look nearly as good, even with a paintjob every 10 years. They all run the same and have all lasted just as long. My advice is if you have the room keep it inside.

One is under a machine shed and the other is outside.

We've got an old 1954 8N that we keep outside most of the time. In case of weather (which we don't get much of), I put it in the barn-- and I keep it in the barn in the winter so it's a little easier to start (not as cold).

after paying $800 for a paint job on my show cub next to my bed would be nice

Ashman, is one of those a JD "R" model?

Nope, what I think you are referring to is the JD "60" standard kind of in the center.

The other Deere's in the picture are a Unstyled "BR" far left and back, the "60" and closest to the door is a Unstyled "GP"

Other Deere's not in the picture we have are a "B" ,"AR", & 2 H's and my 3020 we actually use at dad's and here to do some work in the fields.

and the minnie? nice looking tractors, deere built them well!

There are four Minnies, "U" "RTS "(?) "Z" and a "BF" (Avery)

Also in the stable is a Oliver 60 Standard and my Grandpas 1926 Huber.

I think that is all. If you look close you can see a old Rosenthal corn sheller that was a mess when dad bought it.

-We just purchased a yard tractor for mowing the grass. DD couldn't understand why we bought it. My answer is simple. We may not have a very large lawn the reason being it is getting smaller every year because I can't get anyone to mow the lawn. DD thinks it is a waste of money but I can no longer push the old mower and this is my tow and it is working out just find. She wan't to concerned when we asked for help with the lawn. Last year ds said he would mow the lawn and he did once all summer. It was a mess and I couldn't stand another year like that. I have paid to have it mowed and ended up having to have it gone over again.


It is parked at the side of the house with a tarp over it. A friend is going to build a lean to on the side of our shed for winter storage. I can add a snow blower to it but I can't see me out there in the snow but you never know.

RenieB

I parked a JD with the rear tires on an electric fence one time. Gave me quite a jolt getting back on it. I don't recommend it.

Lean-to on the shed, I'm big on lean-to's.
I mean, "there is a prefectly good wall that's needs something on it"............

I imagine these folks park their tractor outside.
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Here is my tractor that has been sheltered all its life, it is approximately the same age as the above tractor.
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Both of mine are kept at my neighbor's, down the road, in his huge metal workshop. He's a deputy sheriff & has a big German sheppard. Everything gets stole or vandaled by my place when I'm on a working gig. I've got a very old Ford 641 Workmaster & a new little blue Chinese tractor called a Lenar.

LOL

Other than ZealYouthGuy, who we wont ask where he's been parking his tractor, it seems a divided issue. I think sheltered would be best as well which is kinda why I asked the question. A good tractor can be expensive and can last a very long time with some TLC. Think I might buy an old one that still runs and that wont make much of a difference now or might wait till I get a pole barn up n such.

We keep our year-old Kubota in the barn, which has an electric garage-style door on the end so it''s easy to drive in and out.

Our cars, though, are parked outside. Wonder what that says about our priorities... :baby04:

When I moved onto the property, it came with the equipment and storage areas. The Bobcat model 843 and extra attachments are parked in a prefab metal enclosure that is covered on 3 sides. Hey it rains a lot here, so I try to keep it out of the weather as much as possible....

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The loader tractor stays in our old garage when the garage isn't full of baler twine and bale wrap. The two cab tractors are outside until I can finish the next pole barn since they won't fit in any of the other buildings, particularly the White which is almost 14' wide with the duals on in spring and fall and is 2' higher than our highest door opening. Course the loader tractor has 16000 hours on it, the other JD has almost 5000 and we bought the White used with 5200 and it still has 5200 because the tach doesn't work.

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Theres no doubt that parking your tractor under cover is the best it save sun damage on tires and paint ,avoids water damage down the exaust to the wiring etc If you have a place to store it great if not park it where you can .
For me yesterday with the water rising I chose the highest point of ground on the place . Learned to do that the hard way after waking up to find the only thing I could see of of our old case LA was 4 inches of the stack above water .

Most of our neighbors are of an age where they were farming in their youth before there even were many tractors in our area. They once told me that they could tell a lot about a person by where they parked their tractor. Said it showed his priorities!

I don't necessarily agree with them, but I will say we paid more for the tractor than we did our cars and the tractor goes inside the shed and the cars stay out in the driveway! I'm sure it depends on lots of things like the weather where you are, availability of storage, etc.

But the "boys" (average age 85) say it's a poor farmer what don't think better of his tractor than to leave it out. (They have lots of little gems of wisdom to offer me--some seem worth a little more than others!)