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Farmall F12 Resurrection

One Year and Two Tractors Later, A Stunning F12 Comes Back to Life

By Duane M. Reynolds

I decided several years ago that I wanted to own a Farmall F12, as an F12 was the first tractor used on our family farm in Summerhill, N.Y. My grandfather, Homer Reynolds, bought that first F12 sometime between 1935 and 1937 when my father, Robert Reynolds, was still in high school. Dad remembers the day that tractor arrived on the farm and grandpa went plowing with it, and he remembers it was slow - he tells of passing grandpa several times with the sulky plow and three-horse hitch that the F12 was bought to replace.

That was the tractor I learned to drive on, and I spent many hours raking hay and doing other chores with it. I have a photograph of that tractor taken in about 1957, and I believe it's the only picture of it. The F12 was traded off for a set of hydraulic cultivat...

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