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FORD Tractor Story

By Ken Butterworth

2821 Wilmington Road, Lebanon, Ohio 45036

Here is a group of pictures of my 1955 Ford tractor, model 850, serial number 22047. This story is about the finding and restoring of the tractor that I had hoped to obtain when I was sixteen, but did not get until I was forty.

I was raised around a 9N Ford and a 1952 8N Ford tractor. After graduating from college and spending many years teaching school, in 1980 I started looking around for a 1952 Ford 8N. I could not find one in southern Ohio. I finally found a 1955 Ford 850 that had been mechanically overhauled and was for sale. At Christmas of 1981 I bought the Ford tractor and a grader blade. Since that time I have bought a Dearborn two-bottom plow, a six-foot disc and a lift pole. I have tried to restore all these pieces of equipment mechanically and cosmetically since that date. In 1986 I found a gentleman who agreed to s...

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