Any farm kids regress in to collecting old farm toys?

[unsubstantiated]

I find it very interesting. Last year I sold my Grandfather's non-running JD model B and a (44A) 2- bottom plow. ( actual farm equip) My dad agreed to it up front, but had huge remorse afterwards.

I went out and bought the most detailed 1/16 scale model B tractor I could find, along with a very detailed version of the exact plow.

Well, now Im addicted. I found scales of all four of his/his father's JD tractors and 1 Oliver. 2 or 3 implements that we actually pulled.

Then I started looking for the TOYS I actually had as a kid, and bought 4 or 5 of those!

New hobby, I guess.

 

[The Tradition]

Oh, this thread is sooooo Iowa.

 

[TheCainer]

I find it very interesting. Last year I sold my Grandfather's non-running JD model B and a (44A) 2- bottom plow. ( actual farm equip) My dad agreed to it up front, but had huge remorse afterwards.

I went out and bought the most detailed 1/16 scale model B tractor I could find, along with a very detailed version of the exact plow.

Well, now Im addicted. I found scales of all four of his/his father's JD tractors and 1 Oliver. 2 or 3 implements that we actually pulled.

Then I started looking for the TOYS I actually had as a kid, and bought 4 or 5 of those!

New hobby, I guess.

I've been collecting 1/16 replicas for the last 20 years. My 2 best are probably an IH 404 combine which cost about $400 and a John Deere No. 6 corn sheller which cost close to $800. Both are very detailed. Have several other tractors and farm implements as well. It's been fun searching for them and then finding them.

 

[Tylerl_28]

Oh, this thread is sooooo Iowa.

Then stay the eff out of it instead of feeling the need to post incessantly the most worthless shit this site sees on a daily basis.

 

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I find it very interesting. Last year I sold my Grandfather's non-running JD model B and a (44A) 2- bottom plow. ( actual farm equip) My dad agreed to it up front, but had huge remorse afterwards.

I went out and bought the most detailed 1/16 scale model B tractor I could find, along with a very detailed version of the exact plow.

Well, now Im addicted. I found scales of all four of his/his father's JD tractors and 1 Oliver. 2 or 3 implements that we actually pulled.

Then I started looking for the TOYS I actually had as a kid, and bought 4 or 5 of those!

New hobby, I guess.

Have an old Farmer friend that has a shitload of mini John Deere tractors. Probably been collecting them for at least 30 years. I suppose he has some of the other pieces of equipment you mention, but haven't been out to his place in years.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Before the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, the Ertl company was Dyersville's big employer. Fredrick Ertl, while on strike from his company, Adams Moulding, Ertl used his skills to make die cast metal tractors in his home's furnace in 1945. After years of employing hundreds of local, Ertl moved production to Tijuana after Bill Clinton signed the NAFTA trade agreement. 300 plus jobs were sucked to Mexico...

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

I've been collecting 1/16 replicas for the last 20 years. My 2 best are probably an IH 404 combine which cost about $400 and a John Deere No. 6 corn sheller which cost close to $800. Both are very detailed. Have several other tractors and farm implements as well. It's been fun searching for them and then finding them.

Of all of the topics I would have never guessed a bisexual socialist to be into this is pretty high on the list. Good shit Huey.

 

[13thman]

Now that he's passed, I have all my dad's IH toy tractors he collected

 

[Ray Kinsella]

Before the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, the Ertl company was Dyersville's big employer. Fredrick Ertl, while on strike from his company, Adams Moulding, Ertl used his skills to make die cast metal tractors in his home's furnace in 1945. After years of employing hundreds of local, Ertl moved production to Tijuana after Bill Clinton signed the NAFTA trade agreement. 300 plus jobs were sucked to Mexico...

Dyersville is the Farm Toy Capital of the World. They have a farm toy show each year. Fred's brother Joe (and our neighbor) owned Scale Models that also produced farm toys. I worked a few summers there in college, Mom worked there for years, and my sister still does, though they're pretty much out of the toy business.

 

[OrlandNole]

My parents used to give me a JD toy every year when I was a kid. They're all still new in the box in storage somewhere.

 

[SeaPA]

On a shelf in my office, I have a JD toy tractor set that I got when I was a kid. I was pretty young, it's probably from around 1970. I even still have the original box it was shipped in.

 

[Fan In Black]

my Dad had been into it for over 40 years. He has a small fortune in farm toys 1/16 scale He custom biulds them as well.

He has a 1/32 scale minature farm that was displayed at toy shows for years.

csb. He wrecked a semi in the 70s that was filled with Ertl toys. They marked it a loss and said he could take whatever wasn't damaged. 8 years later he went to Toy Show is Dyersville to check it out. Saw 1/16 John Deere log skidder selling for $400. He had 5 in the box at home. That is how he got started.

 

[hawkmart]

Wasn't a farm kid, just friends with a bunch of those aholes growing up but I've got 5 model John Deere's on a shelf by my beer fridge in the basement. So I'm just getting started

 

[win4jj]

Before the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, the Ertl company was Dyersville's big employer. Fredrick Ertl, while on strike from his company, Adams Moulding, Ertl used his skills to make die cast metal tractors in his home's furnace in 1945. After years of employing hundreds of local, Ertl moved production to Tijuana after Bill Clinton signed the NAFTA trade agreement. 300 plus jobs were sucked to Mexico...

Thanks Lute.