Seen a Model R...

Blueflint · May 12, 2014

I live on a small farm in south central Ohio. The area is rolling hills, small fields and all farms are quite small. I am pretty familiar with the local equipment in use on these farms...at least I thought. About a week ago, I was working out in the greenhouse and I could hear an old tractor coming down the road (busy state route). It was not a familiar sound though, I walked to the greenhouse door and about fell over...it was an old Deere Model R, in pretty good original condition, towing a cart, heading down the road to the fertilizer plant. What a sight! Anyway, just nice to see something like this still working the fields.

Tony

Verticaltrx · May 13, 2014

There are still plenty 2-cyl Deeres out there. Yesterday I got behind an old 720 with a post driver on the back and pulling a load of posts on a hay rack.

Blueflint · May 14, 2014

We still see a few of the older Deeres around here though local farms mostly use New Generation or Generation 2 Deeres. It really shocked me to see an old diesel though and the R models were rarely sold in this part of the country, they were marketed for large farms. Really neat to see this animal.