Memorable Christmas - Page 4

zippy1 · #31 12-27-2015, 12:13 AM

My plows moldboards were metal. I suppose late 60's early 70's. If I recall the disc's on the disc harrow were metal as well...

john hall · #32 12-27-2015, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by zippy1

My plows moldboards were metal. I suppose late 60's early 70's. If I recall the disc's on the disc harrow were metal as well...

By the time we came along there was lots of plastic on the implements!

john hall · #33 12-27-2015, 12:29 AM

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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.

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!

bocephus1991 · #34 12-27-2015, 12:50 AM

I did have a ertl 1/32 66 series set. Had a plow, disc, planter, wagon and maybe a sickle mower, can't remember now. I do remember a metal plow, but can't remember if I had one. Had a grain drill and a baler too. Oh and a gravity wagon. And a 1/32 fwa cabbed tractor and a matching baler. I have several 1/64 scale IH toys and a few others.

john hall · #35 12-27-2015, 08:24 AM

The one implement I had that seemed to survive was an IH hay elevator. One other neat toy I had was a Deere roll back with winch. I could load any of my farm equipment on it except for my articulated Deere. My toy collection was just like our farm--one shade of green and one shade of red, none of that "off brand stuff"

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I had quite a few Tonka semi-trucks that stayed indoors, one was a flatbed with a working 5th wheel, one tanker truck that would haul water and had working pipes and valves, one livestock hauler complete with horses, and a race car hauler with 2 cars and a toolbox full of tiny wrenches.

Sugarmaker · #36 12-27-2015, 11:19 AM

This was a couple years Christmas's ago

Three of my Christmas mornings with things I had wanted from Santa.
1. Farm set. (That old Emerson (flat screen

)TV worked for many years!)
2. Roy Rogers Double R-R Bar ranch set.
3. And my Dad, trying to fix, a remote controlled battery operated, Ford loader tractor that never worked out of the box! Dang that made me mad!
(I see a similar tractor on line for $600!)
Maybe that's why I still work on old stuff?
Good thread Todd!
Hope you and family are doing well!

Regards,
Chris

bocephus1991 · #37 12-27-2015, 01:03 PM

That's pretty cool Chris! I had the farm set with the red barn and silo too. I had a grain auger, but it didn't survive! Back before ertl made a grinder mixer I made one from a old coffee can, door knobs for wheels and drinking straw for unloading auger.

zippy1 · #38 12-28-2015, 02:40 PM

Great pictures of the little Chris...

I found this one from 1965 at the tender age of 3. Tonka dozer, Nylint dump truck, Tonka dragline, another Nylint dump truck and the Tonka grader.
I think I got the dozer for my birthday that year.

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Sugarmaker · #39 12-28-2015, 04:58 PM

Todd,
Nice picture! And I know your dad is still pushing dirt! So looks like he had big plans for you!
Regards,
Chris

Sprint60 · #40 12-28-2015, 05:28 PM

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We had a boing-y horse like that back in the late 60's and a red pedal fire truck. Don't know if the two came around the same time The pedal truck belonged to my oldest brother and I don't know who got the boing-y horse but I remember favoring the pedal car and riding it often. I always thought the pedal car was MINE and it wasn't!

The boing-y horse got used up, too! I remember bouncing that thing so much to make the whole thing move across the floor! Hold on!

My brother and I both had a fire engine peddle car; we used to race each other in a "track" around the furnace in the basement. I remember getting too big for them and my mom gave them to the kids who lived next to my grandparents. I know they were happy to get them but I was sorry to give mine up.