Restored From The Scrap Pile! 1939 Farmall F-20 Owned by Agricultural Broadcaster Orion Samuelson
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Orion Samuelson is a well known agriculture broadcaster, but he also has a collection of certain Farmall Tractor. This F-20 Farmall was purchased by Orion's father when he was just 5 years old. The tractor was sold at auction in 1964 and was forgotten. When his broadcasting partner learned of the tractor, he hunted it down, finding it rusting away in a Wisconsin pasture owned by Orion's cousin. The tractor was donated and sold at auction to raise money for "Ag in the classroom". The tractor sold for $6,700 US dollars and was bought by the International Harvester Collectors, Central Illinois Chapter 10. The Collectors planned to restore the tractor and present it to Orion as a gift. It took 1 year of hard work and a group of dedicated collectors, but just one year after the purchase, the club presented Orion with a beautifully restored red Farmall F-20.
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always watched Orion Samuelson every Saturday on U.S. Farm Report not the same show without him. congrats on the restoration. Beautiful.
How long was this show I never heard of it ???
Awesome job guys ! Happy for the Family to have it home ! She’s pretty 😍!
It's amazing what can be brought back from the dead.
Fantastic job of bringing what was a pile of scrap BUT a very special pile of scrap back from the brink!
Wonderful tractor and wonderful friends, you guys have no doubt made this man's dream come true and memories of family cannot be easily come by. Great video and thank you.
congratulations Orion! Max everyone should have a friend of your caliber, you have touched folks for generation to come. From near Princeton, Indiana, thank you so much.
Holy cow... I am not from a farm family but have grown to love tractors and especially junked tractors that are restored. They are a tribute to American ingenuity and the amazing diverse skills of farmers everywhere. What an amazing accomplishment, well done gentlemen. Thank you for sharing.
bless all of you that keep these beautiful old machines intact and running.
One of the most impressive before and after videos on this channel. To see how that tractor looked just one year later was amazing.
Wonderful story .❤️
Holy Toledo! I can't believe that's the same tractor.
What skill (and a lot of elbow grease!) they have to be able to transform an old pile of rust into a brand new machine!
A vintage tractor buddy of mine told me, “if it casts a shadow, it can be restored.” And sure enough...WOW! Thanks to the IH Collectors Club Chapter 10! Y’all did an amazing job!! 🚜👍
Lol oh my goodness I love that.
Ha! I've seen this with old war birds too. I guess it makes me wonder at what point is it no longer the original and rather a recreation of replacement parts?
There will never be another like Darius Harms, Orion Samuelson, and Max Armstrong.
I guess I'm a gearhead - I think it's beautiful ! When I was 6 we left Florida & went to Greenville, S.C. Mrs. Hammond had a 300 acre farm & a smaller Farmall. They wouldn't let me drive it till I was 14 ...
The restoration of this F-20 is amazing. What a transformation! Truly a labor of love!
Simplicity is beautiful
I remember Orion Samuelson and U.S. farm report being on at 6am in the early 80s as a child, I would have been glad to help out restore his families f20 tractor if I had known about it. Thanks Orion for inspiring the future farmers in america one story at a time that you shared with us while you hosted u.s. farm report.
I know that voice. For 5 years in the mid-1970's I lived in SE Idaho, and the middle of Utah, both areas surrounded by the farming communities. A great voice suited for the radio or the pulpit. Thank you. Narragansett Bay.
I fixed X ray Machines in Ruel Farm Town in Ill. I spent may hours listening to Orion's Farm reports on the car Radio.
Very nice tractor one of my favorites nice video
Sweet old tractor with a great story behind it.
Sounds and runs better than a new tractor.
Nice story, and a bunch of good ol boys who haven't missed many meals.
You guys are great! Great job true American pride and craftsmanship right there!
Wow what an amazing restoration. Beautiful Old Tractor.
Awesome restoration job. Kudos to those involved.
My papa brought one of those back but with a 235 chevy six and 4 speed tractor and 4 speed truck transmissions. it was told it topped 62 mph on the highway and its a narrow front!
American ingenuity and pride can accomplish anything.
Hats off to these classy farmers who have done everything!
What a great story! My hat is off to the chapter for such a loving restoration! Job well done for al, the right reasons!
That ole tractor is now in Heaven. It must have done things its previous life to deserve such a fitting resurrection. Well done guys, Thank You.
Lol I know well that feeling dad had a 29-30 Farmall McCormack Deereing F-12 and a 39-41 Farmall F-14 with left and right single bottom plows,cultivators drags and sectioned mower and Deereing hay rake on rubber.
Beautiful display of the excellent effort by all Craftsman's and helpers. Listening to it purr, I cud drive it all day.
Great job! I hope you have video documenting of all your hard work.👍
Wow, beautiful job on that old tractor, you guys should all be very proud of yourselves. I love hearing stories like this.
Very nice!
Amazing rebuild! Well done! That is better than new now!
Awesome
Wow!
What a sweety.
Farmall innovated the tractor industry with their torque amplifiers.
HEY!!! all you farmers, collectors, and IH fans don't for get in the next four years in 2024 the name FARMALL will turn 100 years old!
that is awesome mate, you can rebuild anything with enough care, spit shine and money, all it takes is a few people to care.
It looks Awesome 👌
Beautiful job!
that was some real love poured out on that F-20 GREAT job Men....
Wow great looking Farmall
Amazing!! Thank you for posting this!
This is one of the most heart warming video that i have ever saw ! p. s. I OWN 2 F 20,s just like this one MAINLY BECAUSE MY GRANDAD had one he farmed with ,And Iwas in love with the old tractor when i was 3 years old !
Fantastic!!! Thanks for sharing!
Up the street from my wife's childhood home and just a few miles from us now in a yard exhibit that's been there long as I can remember sits a Tractor exactly like this one and sits there waiting for its rescue! And its all there ! My Hope's is someday someone will save her from the yard grave and give it the rebuild it deserves!
Simply fantastic and an almost unbeliiiievably good result! Congrats!
Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all involved people.
Folks look well fed
A very heart warming story makes me think back to all the old tractor's I had the pleasure to be behind the steering wheel
No piece of American engine driven iron is ever a pile of junk. It may be a soul in need of resurrection, but it is never a pile of junk.
I am impressed, great job
Amazing rebuild
Wow it's beautiful, excellent paint job
What a great thing to see, we have the great Dorset steam fair near us in Dorset England each year so are used to seeing all types of engines farm steam and conventional, great job.
Beautiful
Great story the tractor looks better than new!!!
Excellent job men , she is beautifull . Thank you for sharing it with us !!! My grandpa and my dad had a F-12 , I can rember raking hay with it in the big hole valley Montana , steel Creek ranch wisdom Mont , 😅
Very nice
I'd actually like to press the Like button twice
Just fantastic, well done
you guys are awesome she looks gorgeous
I can see this piece of american history the actual f-20 owned by Orion Samuelson being proudly displayed in a farm museum somewhere along with other Orion Samuelson memorabilia.
This gives me motivation for my 54 jd 70. It's no where near what this farmall started as.
My f12 I'm doing right now is in similar condition. Right now trying to free the stuck engine.
Thumbs up liked and Happy Holidays to you and all your subscribers.
Wow good job.
AMAZING
Absolutely beautiful restoration! But, I wonder how much of the original tractor was able to be saved...
Bravo!
Amazing
Wow
Friends like that are almost impossible to find. What they did was no small favor.
Amen to that! Wow!
Wow look at the impressive gleam on that paint!
Those men spent a fortune in time and money just for their friend. That’s what we call real mateship Something to be prized more than anything else
First tractor I drove was an F20.
amazing
I want to know where they got the rear tires. It's hard to find traditional plain 45 degree tread tires like that!
I doubt there's actually very much of that rusted out tractor left in the "restored" one! I bet they have mega $$$ in this.
Likely just the major castings, framing and some of the internal parts that were protected from the weather.
I might know where one of these is.
Yet this raises the "ship of theseus" question? How much of the "new" tractor is in fact the old?
Nice job. But I don't know how you call it his old tractor. "Most" of the parts came from elsewhere. It can be said his old tractor was a catalyst to a restore.
Did they add a electric start to it?
So did they reuse the original block?
Just goes to show ya
I'd like to know how much $$$ it took to restore that tractor.
H Turbo I agree. The F20 is not that rare I would bet they have much more than it is worth.
Family tractor may be worth it to him!😉
When those believed to have saved an international harvester F-20 from becoming new steel when those wonder how much was sunk into the restoration of the tractor from a hunk of rusted metal to a crown jewel.
@@daniellibich1376 I'm only curious because I put in over seven thousand dollars in an H that sat for only fourteen years. So don't get me wrong, I had the time of my life restoring it and I am proud of myself. I would do it again in a heartbeat to save another Farmall. I look at it this way. It's still a cheaper hobby than stock cars or boating.
Have you ever seen a tractor with tyres on wrong !
19 seconds lost on advertising
don't see the rear brake cables
At least it's not a John Deere.
Please check out Marty T on UA-cam He found one up where he lives. Contact him and maybe he can tell you where it is. It looks more complete then this one.
".. looks better than it did when it came off the line."
Yep, and that totally sums up the problem with these so-called restorations. Beautiful as it may be, they've gone and created something that simply never existed - and in doing do, they all but totally obliterated 80 years of that machine's history.
my daad had that same tractor as a pice of junk but way better condition then that was iin and i can ell you now thats the wrong steering wheel the correct one is solliiiiiiid stell and took eveery fiber of my being to lift it as a youngin
Yep they made Farmall so they could keep boneheads off the John Deeres
So why did ih go out of business then? Ohhh right everyone caught on to not buy anything red
does anyone who worked on this not have a eating disorder.
Nostalgia at its best.❤️❤️
Beautiful
She was never junk!! Rule of thumb as long as there was paint on her she still needed to be broke in!! Now that the paint was off it was time to fix her up an rebuild her. She earned it!! That was a great job on rebuild she might have been sitting a while but she was still there too put pack together looks nice.
I love you guy's passion. well done..outstanding job
Lived all my 52 years in NYC and always watched the farm report . Great rebuild with much respect earned
You guys did a fantastic job restoring that tractor! Very cool! 👍🏻