John Deere Fever

My husband has John Deere fever. 

 Before we were married I learned that green tractors, as long as they were the John Deere kind were the best, the only kind of tractors to have.  I learned about the styles and how the numbers changed over the years.  We didn't have one.  We didn't need one. And then we bought our current home with too much lawn to mow with a push mower and our first riding lawn mower was a John Deere.  I don't remember now how we got the 2630 for a garden tractor that isn't used anymore. We got a larger riding mower. When we started our business, Jim bought a nice little garden tractor with a loader bucket that he used there until he got mini-excavators.  Our renters of the farm bought and gave to Jim the JD B that his dad bought brand new, back in the day and has since been restored as earlier blog posts will show.  After Jim got that B, he traded another B he bought just before for an MT intending 

to restore it and buy a cultivator to use in the garden.

 He's been wanting a zero-turn mower for years and he bought one last year with our stimulus money.

That's where our John Deere story stood.

Until...the aforementioned neighbor told Jim he saw a plow on an online auction from Illinois for an MT so Jim went
to look and found not only the plow, but also a cultivator and a mower.

AND, a running MT, which Jim didn't need since he has one.  He decided that buying this working tractor wouldn't cost anymore than restoring the old one so he bought it. And the attachments. With the intent of restoring it as well. 

So, we went to Illinois to pick it up.

John Deere MT Lawn Ornament