Our John Deere Collection

Our John Deere Collection

Our collection of JD L&G tractors. A 1972 70 lawn tractor with a 1964 #80 cart, 1968 112 manual lift GT with sleeve hitch installed, and a 1972 140 H-3 GT with a newer black frame #80 cart. Picture taken spring of 2002.

Hi, we are the Ortman's and we collect John Deere lawn & garden tractors/attachments, tractor memoribilia, and anything else John Deere or farm related. We live between Winamac & Kewanna in north central Indiana. So far we have three JD tractors and quite a few attachments. The smallest tractor is our 1972 model 70 lawn tractor. For it we have a model 34 mower deck and 80 dump cart. Next is our 1968 112 manual lift, Tecumseh powered garden tractor. It was our first John Deere. For it we have a 39 mower deck, 37A snowthrower, 43 front dozer blade, 31 tiller, 541A PTO attachment, front & rear wheel weights, tire chains, both turf & bar-style rear tires, intregral hitch, front & rear lift kits, and factory head & tail lights. Lastly (and newest to the stable) is a 1972 140 H-3 hydrostatic drive garden tractor. For it we have a 48 mower deck, 49 snowthrower, 54 front dozer blade with hydraulic angle, 54C center blade with hydraulic angle, 33 tiller, 542 PTO attachment, rear wheel weights,both turf & bar-style rear tires, front frame weight bracket with 3 slab weights, intregral hitch, rear hydraulic outlet kit, 3 point hitch and tire chains. We have also just gotten another #80 cart that I am checking with the local JD dealer with, as I believe it was sold new in late 1963, making it a first year 80 cart, a 1964. We also have a few Brinly attachments that work on the intregral hitch's. We have a 10"plow (model PP-510), single action disk (model DD-500) and two cultivators (models CC-525 and CC-500). Recently we also purchased a Brinly 3-point hitch tandem disk, model #DD-1000, a Brinly 3-point hitch to sleeve hitch A-frame adaper, model HH-1000, a PP-1000 12" plow and a CC-1000 cultivator. These tractors are not "restored", although the 112 has had the frame, wheels & motor painted when I overhauled it in the summer of 1999. The 70 & 140 are in original shape. I would like to eventually get all three painted up nice with new decals, but hate to take them out of service long enough to do it. I also plan on using them quite regularly, so they will get scratched up eventually. I guess that will mean another paint job down the road.
I am also using this website to post technical information for JD garden tractors, mostly for the 1982 and earlier ones. If there is something you would like to see posted, please e-mail me & I'll see what I can do to get it up here.

Thanks,
Kent