Driving and talking about the John Deere Model BW

I took the footage for this video at the beginning of the month, but I haven't yet gotten around to creating and posting it. Sorry about that...
I haven't done much with the BW the past few years, so this summer I took it out and tried to use/drive it around a little bit more. It's a fun and special tractor to me, as it's the little two-cylinder that grandpa kept on the farm that we had though all of my childhood. Although we had "better" and more modern tractors, the old "put put" tractor was always one of my favorites to use.
Chores growing up with the B included "fluffing" hay (driving over the hay windrows with a device that would lift it up slightly to increase drying time after it'd been rained on), as well as using the tractor to run the old grain elevator to put grain into the grain bins.
This tractor is a 1949 John Deere BW all fuel. The All fuel model was somewhat of a rare configuration. It also shipped with the optional wide axles, which have unfortunately since been torched off.
The last portion of the video shows the tractor pulling an International Harvester hay rake. I was using the tractor and rake to split a field due to a property boundary.
Overall, the B is still one of my favorite tractors, as it's small, nimble, easy to work on, and plainly just a lot of fun to drive and work on. The B is also the size smaller to the model A. Deere said the B was about 1/3 smaller than the A, and the A was about 1/3 smaller than the G.

[@daveinidaho7970]

I have a 52 BN with the round rear axle housing and long rear axles. My Grandpa bought it used when i was in grade school and i remember people telling us to cut the end of the axles off. Fortunately that didn’t happen. It was one of the ones that also has a water pump.

[@melvinroes3921]

Nice machine thanks

[@golfbravowhiskey8669]

Hey Kyle. It’s gary. I’ve had a few of those, most people only had a 8 foot lean too I’m going into a crib so they cut them off so they would not hit the post. Those things or long. Great video, by the way before Richard closed he had a sip or two of those axles, it would be neat to replace those cut offs with replacement axles

[@johnathanutahzio8474]

Amazing

[@mksonmor]

I'm thinking she had to go into a barn.

[@scott6052]

A shame someone torched the axles.

[@richardwilkens4577]

Don't see too many bw's