Machinery Pete visits Rushville,
OH to interview Ryan Young and learn the story behind the 1992 John Deere 4960 he and his dad Joe bought last year...
with only 14 hours on it!
The tractor had sat outside for 20 years and had trees growing up around it...
Com: Justin :I think the original owner must have had something very tragic happen which caused him to just stop everything.
I've never known anyone to just leave all the equipment outside and not sell anything after its done being used......
Com: Matt C : The owner and I unloaded this tractor off the trailer and put it in the shop. Where it sat for about 2 years moving it in and out as we need the shop the tractor never was hooked to anything it only had about 9 hours when we unloaded it. I was the one who parked the tractor outside the owner would not use it because it had Goodyear tires on it. (he read that they made a vibration ) we were harvesting corn and the combine broke and we had to put it in the shop to work on it I move the 4960 to the area beside the shop. The owner said to leave it outside as he was tired of us moving it to use the shop. the last time I remember it was started was in fall of 1997 I moved it down the drive way and parked back where you found it. The locked up 4020 was locked up when I stated to work there and the owners said it had a burnt piston form turning up the pump. The owner was a good mechanic and took real good care of his tractors. He lost a couple of the farm fields that he rented and his sister want to sell the home farm we farmed up until 1997 when he parked all of the equipment....
