This is a letter I received from Rich Ward about the tractor I restored for him, this is the second Ford I have done. Rich is a former Navy Fighter Pilot who always wanted a farm, we teased him when he bought the farm in Lebanon, Oregon.
We called it “Green Acres” and told him he bought the “Haney Place”, that is why I had the sign made for him..
This is a quote from the TV Show that I joked about Rich and his tractor,
Oliver Douglas: Mr. Haney, you sold me a defective tractor!
Mr. Haney: No sir. It is not a defective. It’s a Hoyt Clagwell
Eb Dawson: Right. A Defective has bigger wheels in the front.
Thanks Rich for letting me bring out the beauty hidden in this old girl.
I enjoyed taking this poor old tired lady and making her ready for the Ball, just like Cinderella, she is the Princess at the Ball!
Here is Rich’s story and the photos of his Lady.
PS: She has a lot of your parts on her now!
Thanks;
Dean Zinter
When I bought our farm it had this old 1953 Ford Jubilee tractor in one of the barns. A friend of mine, Dean Zinter, aka Mr. Haney, at the Aurora airport has a similar tractor. He has restored his and as a favor and a few bucks he offered to restore ours as well. Here are some before and after pictures. He also restored the plow. Dean was raised on a farm in North Dakota so he knows these old Fords well.
He delivered it on Friday, along with a Green Acres plaque for our door. I took the tractor to Scio yesterday for the Lamb and Wool Festival that runs all weekend. The weekend is a big, big deal here and includes an antique and working tractor show. Our tractor took first place for having traveled the greatest distance under it own power, 8.2 miles, First in it’s class and Best in Show Overall. We cleaned up.
This is the type of tractor that replaced the mule on the farms in America the same as the Ford Model T replaced the horse in town. Ford made millions of these tractors in many different versions in the 00’s, the teens, 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. Seems every farm had at least one.
They allowed the farmer to farm more land than a mule and as newer and bigger tractors came along the farms got bigger yet the Fords were still kept around as much loved and respected utility tractors. The “Jubilee” is one of the rarer ones as it was made only one year, 1953, which was the 50th anniversary year for Ford.
This one lives in the garage not in the barn.
Rich Ward, aka Mr Douglas
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