NCL4701
Well-known member
Equipment
L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
No I don’t have a picture of the L today even though I did fork some stuff around and moved a couple of pallets with it. Yeah, I know this is a Kubota forum but this is Off Topic.
Anyway, this is the tractor I grew up driving from 8 years old to this afternoon 48 years later. It’s part 2N, part 9N, maybe some 8N, and a Ferguson hood expertly fitted, apparently with a sledge hammer. I’m told it was pretty rough when my Dad bought it in the mid-60’s. As I understand it, he bought most of it to begin with but had to buy a rear wheel and hood (both missing), weld a couple of breaks in the 3 point, rebuild the motor, weld one of the broken steering arms, and something or other with the hydraulics. With all the busted stuff he welded back together I sometimes wondered if it came off a trailer at high speed, rolled down a mountain, or what trauma explained it’s condition. That was before I was born so whoever really knows ain’t here to say. Been in various stages of worn out and refurbished in my time with it. Edit: Forgot it also has a busted water jacket that the weld failed on so Dad tried fixing it with JB Weld shortly after it hit the market and that repair is still holding. It would take forever to list the busted/repaired stuff in this thing.
Before Dad passed I wouldn’t have thought I’d be willing to let it go, but now I’d rather see it put to use than just sitting in a shed. Not like it’s a museum piece or even a restoration candidate. As good a machine as it was in its day, it’s day kind of passed; at least it did here. It will be moving on to a new owner shortly. Someone who is handy with old iron and has a use for it.
We’re keeping the H my father’s father bought originally, sold to a neighbor, who sold it back to Dad when I was in my teens. I never put many hours on the H. It was mostly used for the trip bucket loader during its time with us. Don’t recall the last time it was driven. Hopefully the battery tender on the H is working better than the one on the Panzer.
As we were rearranging stuff, the mower I used as a kid, a Pennsylvania Panzer, needed to move from one of the basements to the shed. Had a battery tender on it but the battery was dead as a hammer, so instead of messing with it, towed it with the 9N which was also moving from a stall in the shed to one of the carports. If all goes as planned it will be leaving us next weekend.
I thought I might be a little sad to see it go. Maybe I will be after I put it on the new owner’s trailer and am watching them lash it down. For now, I’m glad it’s not going to rot away in a dark shed. It will live a useful life at least a while longer.
If you still have the tractor you learned to drive on or some older stuff with family history you’re willing to share, let us see it.
Anyway, this is the tractor I grew up driving from 8 years old to this afternoon 48 years later. It’s part 2N, part 9N, maybe some 8N, and a Ferguson hood expertly fitted, apparently with a sledge hammer. I’m told it was pretty rough when my Dad bought it in the mid-60’s. As I understand it, he bought most of it to begin with but had to buy a rear wheel and hood (both missing), weld a couple of breaks in the 3 point, rebuild the motor, weld one of the broken steering arms, and something or other with the hydraulics. With all the busted stuff he welded back together I sometimes wondered if it came off a trailer at high speed, rolled down a mountain, or what trauma explained it’s condition. That was before I was born so whoever really knows ain’t here to say. Been in various stages of worn out and refurbished in my time with it. Edit: Forgot it also has a busted water jacket that the weld failed on so Dad tried fixing it with JB Weld shortly after it hit the market and that repair is still holding. It would take forever to list the busted/repaired stuff in this thing.
Before Dad passed I wouldn’t have thought I’d be willing to let it go, but now I’d rather see it put to use than just sitting in a shed. Not like it’s a museum piece or even a restoration candidate. As good a machine as it was in its day, it’s day kind of passed; at least it did here. It will be moving on to a new owner shortly. Someone who is handy with old iron and has a use for it.
We’re keeping the H my father’s father bought originally, sold to a neighbor, who sold it back to Dad when I was in my teens. I never put many hours on the H. It was mostly used for the trip bucket loader during its time with us. Don’t recall the last time it was driven. Hopefully the battery tender on the H is working better than the one on the Panzer.
As we were rearranging stuff, the mower I used as a kid, a Pennsylvania Panzer, needed to move from one of the basements to the shed. Had a battery tender on it but the battery was dead as a hammer, so instead of messing with it, towed it with the 9N which was also moving from a stall in the shed to one of the carports. If all goes as planned it will be leaving us next weekend.
I thought I might be a little sad to see it go. Maybe I will be after I put it on the new owner’s trailer and am watching them lash it down. For now, I’m glad it’s not going to rot away in a dark shed. It will live a useful life at least a while longer.
If you still have the tractor you learned to drive on or some older stuff with family history you’re willing to share, let us see it.
Last edited:
When I was a kid, I thought the tractor was a monster!! Not so much when I took this pic! LOL!