00:00Here's the oldest tractor in the collection, 100 years old this year, it's a 1926 Model D
00:04in original unrestored condition and it still runs. It's still in, we believe it's currently
00:13the oldest running John Deere, unrestored John Deere in Australia. This is the very first tractor
00:17I bought when I first started collecting. I bought it in February 1994 off of Jim Hahn,
00:25the collector, he was a John Deere collector up at Blockson at the time and over the years
00:30with our collecting and that, me and Jim become pretty good friends, still very good friends to
00:34this day. He gave me a lot of guidance and a lot of help with not only purchase of
00:39tractors, I'd never buy about four tractors off of him over the time, and just help me out with
00:44parts, guidance and also locating tractors when we're looking at purchasing.
01:08So this is a 1944 Model D, a war years tractor. During the war, rubber was very hard to get
01:13hold of, so John Deere, or not only John Deere, but a number of the tractor companies reintroduced
01:17their tractors on steel wheels. Now this one here come to Australia on steel wheels. It was converted
01:23to rubber wheels using Dunlop cast rims with Australian tyres and that on it. When I bought
01:31the tractor, that's what was on it, but I just happened to have a set of the correct steel wheels
01:36laying around for it, so I decided to put it back with its original build configuration.
01:41This is a 1961 John Deere 1010. I actually got this one off of Jim Hahn as well. I had
01:47one of the
01:49one of the Model D's I purchased. I got some new parts with it when I bought off the widow
01:54of the
01:54original owner and Jim wanted those parts and he had this tractor there which I'd be interested in
02:00with the idea of doing a conversion on it. This particular tractor originally had a four-cylinder
02:04diesel motor and it was a total disaster. I put a V6 Chev in it for a bit of fun.
02:09This is a 1947 Model D John Deere.
02:11I bought this one from Callington in the Adelaide Hills back in early 2000s. The chap that sold it
02:19was still using it for pumping water out of the Bremer River at Callington. He had it converted to run
02:25on
02:25LP gas and he led me to believe it's still on the original tyres from 1947. So it really hasn't
02:31done
02:32a massive amount of work apart from running a pump. The idea of the row crop tractor is for operating
02:36mid-mounted cultivators mainly in in row crop before herbicide chemicals are developed. They run the
02:43two front wheels in between the rows of corn or whatever the crop is then with different sized
02:48cultivators mounted underneath the tractor and depending on the size trap yet that's how many
02:53rows of corn you'd cultivate in a pass.
03:10So this tractor here when I was farming up until 2019 I did actually use this one
03:15harvest time we use it for running the auger on the field bins and also we used tow when we
03:19harvest
03:19the entire water cart behind it for dust suppression around the shed. The BR here,
03:25that is just a cute little tractor. It's probably the one that I worked the hardest to get.
03:32Where was this one from?
03:33Now this one here was actually built out of three tractors. The basic chassis of this tractor come
03:39from Queensland and I bought two wrecks out of Victoria and built one tractor out of three basically
03:47because a quarter, a quarter raided in the correct direction.
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