I'm here you can start the party. :)

[Compact Driver]

I'm not new to tractors, but I am looking to get another tractor in the next few days and I was looking for some information and ended up here. I decided it had been a while since I'd blabbed about my Kubota, so I should join the forum and find out what others were doing. It would also give me the chance to find out about the Satoh I'm planning on getting. Yes, like me it's an antique, 1970s vintage, not quite as old as me. Well my Kubota is a B8200D from the 80s and it runs every time I turn the key.

I live in the beautiful Communist workers paradise of Vermont. I live on a little 2 acre headache too close to people I don't have much use for because the are always looking for a way to give me grief. I leave them alone but that's not enough. I'm sure some of you moved to your current location for the same reason. If not you were lucky enough to have lived where you are your whole life.

The first tractor I ever used was a 1946 - 47 Farmall Cub that my father bought from his former employer after he retired. I still think about getting that tractor. I don't think I can't find that one, but maybe one exactly like it. I was a little upset with my father when I found out he sold it. That was a long time ago. Probably about the time my Kubota was being shipped to Vermont.

OK, so I have oil and steel chips in my veins with fire and electricity for a heart. Maybe I like things that go fast and things that are old, and slow. Is there any better way to look at life if you don't live in a paradise?

Hope to see your work and fun times as we go down the road.

Just call me Al.

 

[mddorange]

:welcome:
To the TBN forum Al. We are glad that you joined.

We would love to see pictures of your tractor and anything else you want to upload.

 

[Compact Driver]

Thanks Mike,

I didn't think about my ancient past, but we might have shared the same ground at one time or another. Veteran USAF 1983 - 1990. I'll have to look for those pictures. I think I have them on an SD card somewhere. I haven't taken any lately, but I was thinking about doing a Vlog about the tractor I hope to pick up this weekend. If the weather allows. Check over on the Mitsubishi Satoh area to see what's up.

 

[Wagtail]

G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.

Enjoy the site.

 

[Thomas]

:welcome: to TBN AL...enjoy.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Snow party in vermont today!!!!!!

Welcome to tbn

 

[RalphVa]

We had a little place on Lake St. Catherine in Vermont for a few years. Too small to retire to. Later retired to here in central Va after moving to Singapore and then Baton Rouge.

Have had an old 12 hp Gravely, then a JD 4010, JD 1025R and now a JD 2025R, which is basically a 4010 on steroids and a couple goodies the 4010 didn't have. The 1025R was a piece of junk.

Looked at a B2301 before going with the 2025R.

Ralph

 

[TBN Support]

Hi Al. Welcome to the forum! :welcome: roposetoast:

 

[mddorange]

Thanks Mike,

I didn't think about my ancient past, but we might have shared the same ground at one time or another. Veteran USAF 1983 - 1990. I'll have to look for those pictures. I think I have them on an SD card somewhere. I haven't taken any lately, but I was thinking about doing a Vlog about the tractor I hope to pick up this weekend. If the weather allows. Check over on the Mitsubishi Satoh area to see what's up.

Thanks for your service. Where were you stationed?

 

[Compact Driver]

I was stationed at K.I. Sawyer AFB in Northern Michigan, retrained at Lowery AFB in Colorado, and ended up at Mtn Home AFB in Idaho. I kept asking for North East assignments and got posted farther and farther West.

Thanks to everyone for the welcome. I'm sure You'll stumble across me from time to time.

 

[mddorange]

I know what you mean about assignments. I was stationed at Lackland AFB, TX, Amarillo AFB, TX, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, Sheppard AFB, TX, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, Offutt AFB, NE, Shaw AFB, SC, Yokota AB, Japan, Offutt AFB, NE, Tyndall AFB, FL and Elmendorf AFB, AK.

 

[Compact Driver]

You certainly got around. Yes, I did go to Lackland AFB in Texas for Basics as well. I'm glad I was able to bypass half of it. Well, here's the reason I showed up here.

I don't know what year yet, but I have the serial number and it's under 1000 so I'm guessing a very early tractor. What's strange is parts of it are like new, and other's will really need work, but that's why I'm trying to save it. No better introduction than the reason for being here, right?

 

[mddorange]

Very RIGHT!

So where did you find the tractor? Any documentation on it? Does it run?

 

[Compact Driver]

Why I'm here now.

No documentation and no idea exactly how old it is. I found it on Craig's List. I was told that it runs, but there was a problem with high revs, so the former owner bought a carb kit for it. He also took the starter out to "clean it up" because it was running away after starting, but I have a little trouble believing that. I guess there's no reason not to tell how much I paid except for embarrassment. I got it for $600.00. I figured I couldn't go too wrong unless every part was complete trash. The Sickle mower has to be worth half the price?? Here's one of the pictures from the ad on Craig's List.



Here's a picture I found on the Internet of what I want it to look like when I'm done.



I know that's a lot to ask for and I have read the the original decals are unavailable, so I may have to settle for good enough. I want a working tractor that looks like it should and not a patched up clunker. There's nothing wrong with a well used tractor looking the way it does from work, but this tractor has obviously set for some time in the tall grass if you look at the wheels that are toast. There is a definite line in the wheels where the rust took over while the rest of the wheel was pretty much new. I think this should probably be taken over to the Satoh area now as my explanation of what I'm doing is running into how I'll be doing it.

Oh, I'll try to get over the the Kubota area as well and post about my B8200.

Al

 

[Compact Driver]

Just a side note because you all may fine it amusing. When we got to the property to pick up the tractor the yard was a mud bowl, but not all that bad as I would find out. This was the squishy mud that is on the surface of a frozen yard, so we didn't have too bad a time lining up and getting the tractor on my trailer. (Look at my post in the Mitsubishi\Satoh area.)

So, we decided to set up our GPS to drive home away from the town because that stinking sickle bar was drooping more and more it seemed. I never expected to go travel over a dam on an access road inches wider than my trailer, or on a "Dirt" back road that was half thawed. The real mud bogging had begun and the sickle bar was uncomfortably hanging off on the side of the trailer. I got out on the side of the road and removed all the bolts needed to lay the sickle bar down and finished the "quick" route back to the interstate for the last 110 miles back to our house.

Overall a 244 mile trip with my 2004 F-250 Super Duty with 6.0 Turbo Diesel. The longest trip that truck and trailer have ever undertaken together. I was glad to be back alive, but I'm convinced that a GPS will try to kill you if it can. Our trailer is still covered in back road mud.

 

[kthompson]

Welcome to TBN. On Decals, if you can get pictures of what the decals look like you may find a sign person that can make them for you. I have a friend who makes all kind and have used them on mail boxes, post and signs.