My Great Grandfather bought a 1929 Farmall and used it at our farm in Savannah. When my Great Uncle bought a plantation on the Edisto River, Great Grandfather gave him the tractor.
Uncle Hugh used the heck out of that tractor, using it to cut the saw grass in his rice field with an old John Deere sickle bar mower. When it got stuck (which was often), Deemus, his farm hand, would stick a 2x4 in the back tire spokes and back up. Very dangerous - either the tractor came out of the mud or it would flip over and kill whoever was driving it. Somehow it never flipped over.
Uncle Hugh finally decided to get rid of the tractor and gave it to my Dad and we still have it today. It gets light use, primarily cranking it up and driving it around
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