Even if the price had been higher, we probably would have bought it. I''m a sucker for old gray tractors. My late grandfather had an old Ford he used to clip questions to ask when buying a home pastures with a clattering how to use impact wrench sickle bar. my 78-year-old father, don, use and scarifier still uses an old gray tractor to plow snow and mow at his place in delaware, ohio. it''s a ferguson t0-30 made in 1951--the year i was born. i learned at 10 to drive on that tractor, under dad''s close supervision, of course.dad got grader and blades the tractor in 1956, not long after he bought 15 acres just west of delaware and put up one of the first pole barns in the area. "i took questions to ask when buying a home it on a trade, sight unseen, as credit on a down to payment on a piece of real estate," he recalls. "the buyer was $1,100 short. he offered me the tractor with a two-bottom use plow, rear scarifier manure scoop and a two-row grader cultivator.

"also, blades and when a dealer who sells large mowers and tractors probably already does business to with a finance source like wells fargo or sheffield. with finance opportunities in place -- plus single products that serve multiple fields -- he''s in a position to enter several industrial markets." use what kind of guarantee comes with this?" i asked, suspiciously eyeing the few drops of oil on the pavement under the rear axle of an old gray ford tractor."well, none, actually," replied the man who had it sitting out by the road with a for-sale sign. "what you see is what you scarifier get--where is, as is."the grader tractor in question was a 1946 ford 2n (see photo, page 103). the four-cylinder engine had been overhauled a few years earlier, he said. then an old pennsylvania-dutchman, who probably bought it new when truman was president, traded it in on blades a new kubota.

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