Great looking patina on this one, especially with the steel wheels, very steampunk, victorian sci-fi. I hand cranked an F-20 many times when I was 12 years old, luckily never got kicked back. My Dad had one fitted with a lift boom at his construction equipment business, we used it a lot.
I was lucky enough to have had my grandpa’s cousin who grew up with these tractors and had a shop fixing them since the 50’s teach me how to time the mag, so haven’t had to worry about them kicking back, but I am still careful. Unfortunately, we lost him about a year and a half ago, he passed on his stool in his shop, died doing what he loved, still working every day at the age of 90. This one is a very good starter, 1/4 turn, barely rolling over.
As for patina, it’s a rusty old tractor
You may notice the radiator has remnants of a “rebuild” sticker and rust that doesn’t match, but that is how my friend bought it. He also added the fenders recently, they may be from an F30, but either way they are hard to find... I think he said they were on Craigslist for only 14 minutes when he called the seller about them.
I have never seen another F20 around here with these 6” lugs, and a few guys tried to tell him they were welded-up, but we found them in an original parts book. Maybe they are common somewhere else in the country...
I have always wanted one rusty old tractor with no paint left, but this one has some neat remnants of original decals, along with the moss
Also has a corn-picker hood and distillate manifold