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Originally Posted by bocephus1991
The disc didn't fare as well as the plow. I broke the gangs off it. The plow was ok, well till the dog chewed on the shares! It was a little modified! Lol I played outside in the dirt with them. They worked like the real thing! My tonkas didn't survive had a dozer, dump truck, wreaker and fire truck. Oh I have an IH 815 combine forget about that and a IH grinder mixer. I have a bunch of ertl stuff.
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Believe it or not, I got an IH dump trailer that suffered a broke hitch when it was brand new! They could have been from my older sister prior to Santa having a chance to deliver it. The grain drills seemed to have cheap lids that broke off and the tongues in the hay balers weren't real strong. I had a 4 row Deere corn planter that had no row markers left and only 2 row units by the time I got through planting all my crops. The unloading auger and reel on my Deere combine weren't well built either. My Deere sickle mower wouldn't work right, when dad carried it back they tried a couple more and just decided they were all junk. I had a 5xx series IH tractor that didn't have great rear wheels, they would break. Other than that, I don't remember any real problems with the toy tractors. My favorite truck was an IH Loadstar painted green. I lost or broke the slat sides (stake bed) but to this day can still hear the axle squeaking. Theres a pic of it on Christmas morning somewhere at dad's house. I imagine most all of my Tonka and Ertl stuff came at Christmas--they were expensive toys back then, didn't get that sort of stuff the rest of the year. I was a REAL big farmer back in the day!
