Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by RichardG » Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:03 pm

THIS 27 CHEVY ENGINE'D DOODLE BUG WAS BUILT BY A LEO CAVALEAR IN 1948, FROM A MECHANICS ILLASTRATED BOOK, IT WORKED OUR FARM MANY YEARS, IT NOW LIVES IN NEW YORK, IT HAS A 1927 DURANT REAR END FOR STEERING-THE I BEAM IS FROM A BUILDING FROM BOSTON, TWO TRANSMISSIONS WHEN BOTH PUT IN REVERSE IT WOULD CREEP AT WALKING SPEED.
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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by Michael Peternell » Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:33 am

A Whiteman wrote:
Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:11 pm
Well, once this virus is resolved (when/if) a trip to the US will be on the cards (my daughter is engaged to a Texas based chap). I would love to take up the offer to drive those tractors, even just up the track and back. So what show and where do I have to plan to come to? (Even though it may be "years" away I would like to pencil that it in :-)
You coming this year? Just teasing, but it will be the largest gathering of pre 192... ever for IHC equipment.

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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by A Whiteman » Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:23 am

Haha would love to. Here I am a year later LOCKED DOWN again. Our government's beloved leader has a thing about talking, not much actually gets done though, so she just puts us on ice when the virus breaks out again.
Looking forward to seeing pictures of the gathering !
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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by Herb Iffrig » Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:06 am

When and where is the IHC gathering?
Thanks

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Post by Michael Peternell » Wed Aug 25, 2021 8:05 am

Coming this September 16,17,18,19.
In the middle of Minnesota. Albany Mn!

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Post by Michael Peternell » Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:39 pm

Herb, if you are an IHC guy this is the show to see. Big single cylinder friction drives will be in attendance. The offer for driving a prairie tractor stands if any of you guys want to make the trip. Oh and if you think your T is slow you ain't seen nothing yet! Some big pieces are being hauled in from at least four or five states. Heard rumor of one coming from the east coast!

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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by Duey_C » Sat Aug 28, 2021 1:38 am

Mike P isn't fudging facts. The Albany, MN IH show will be awesome!
In my under-a-rock view, we have a bit of a revelation for fellas that have expressed interest.
See if this is interesting. Getting dark. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBoup8VTBrg&t=2s
Son drove up for tomatoes that I got earlier today. I forgot the gas can on the tomato run when I filled my pickup tank but he didn't.
Lots of small issues but in less than two minutes the Twin City 21-32 engine in a VERY early chassis runs. And pretty good!
Much to do/learn yet. The Stromberg M-3 carb especially. Happy. Yes I've blubbered about it thrice so far.
This engine had not been run-in with a belt from another tractor. FRESH. Like a certain Mack truck engine of Paul's.
Just crank it.
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Post by Michael Peternell » Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:53 pm

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If red isn't your color of choice we also have some green.

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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by Duey_C » Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:40 pm

IH years are always strong in Albany yet lots of colors of tractors to be seen.
Michael, I shouldn't post after yours but this is special.
And it'll be good to see you.
A tiny taste of things to come this weekend. Oop, this site does not support embedded. That's OK.
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Post by Lgitts » Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:03 pm

Thought I would share my latest old tractor find. This was just a couple months ago, during our heat wave out in the PNW. I dug this out of an old quansot hut at a former dairy farm about 50 miles from my place. I had heard rumors of it and decided to chase them down, because you just never know if they're true or not. My lesson learned is to do it because the gems are still out there.
an unassuming building
an unassuming building
moving some stuff to find my treasure
moving some stuff to find my treasure
Eureka!!  1917 Big Bull-  Homemade farm saw attached
Eureka!! 1917 Big Bull- Homemade farm saw attached
Home, with the non-original scabbed on saw removed
Home, with the non-original scabbed on saw removed
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Post by Lgitts » Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:10 pm

One more shot of the Big Bull's 2 cylinder engine. It's currently stuck, but all complete. To start it, you stick the hand crank through the spokes of the left/rear land wheel. I have no idea what you do if you happen to shut it down and the wheel spoke blocks the shaft where the hand crank slips into. This thing weighs over 8000 lbs, so you would need to hitch up the mules to move the thing enough to get the crank attached to start it. Gee, wonder why these things never made it very long in the tractor world????
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Post by Herb Iffrig » Tue Nov 02, 2021 2:09 am

Wow!
I might have an old photo of something like that tractor. I got the photo from Washington Missouri a long time ago.

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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by Rich Eagle » Tue Nov 02, 2021 2:45 am

Mecum Auction has some detailed photos:
https://www.mecum.com/lots/GF0414-17818 ... bull-5-12/
When did I do that?

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Post by Duey_C » Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:53 am

Wow! I just don't know what to say! Very lucky find! Very, very lucky.
I started a little bull between the spokes like Rich shows to parade but another fellow was tasked with the same so I let him drive it thru.
It might have been interesting to use that clutch that might not disengage.
It hasn't been paraded in several years. Oh, no brakes on the little Bull's either.
I believe Gile twin-opposed engines. They do run pretty!
Embarrassing to admit that they were contract-built by Minneapolis Steel and Machinery.
Builders of the Twin City line of tractors. "Built to do the work. Not to meet a price."
Bull tractors were not.
I don't have many jealous bones in my body.
Very happy for you. Really rare piece of ag history!
Do show us more if you would.
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Re: Share Your Tractor(s) - old ones that is ;-)

Post by R Rathert » Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:08 am

Les I see your Bull has the optional pony wheel drive mine dosn't and I have never seen one but I knew they where made. Rudy

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Post by Michael Peternell » Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:42 pm

R Rathert wrote:
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Les I see your Bull has the optional pony wheel drive mine dosn't and I have never seen one but I knew they where made. Rudy
Had to look again. Look at that bull gear in the outrigger wheel! Good eye Rudy! Must have been for the tractor pulling thing at that time...
or not so much. My guess is trying to put two pulling wheels under your turd!


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Post by TSteve » Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:08 pm

Gotta love old Fords!!
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Post by Lgitts » Sat Nov 06, 2021 3:46 pm

Hi Rudy and Michael. I've attached 2 photos of the optional "land wheel drive" on the Big Bull. In early 2019, Aumann Auctions sold a Big Bull from the late Alan Schurman auction in Woodland, Washington. It also had the land wheel drive on it. At the time, they noted they had not seen a Bull with this, but mine also has it. I'm not sure how good it did, as the wheel itself has no provisions for attaching any growzers or lugs to it, so if it hit any soft soil at all it was pretty much worthless. One of the many things which helped bring about the Nebraska Tractor tests to insure farmers actually got what was promised to them.
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Post by Michael Peternell » Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:03 pm

No real differential. Kinda slip clutch deal. Learnt that today from my younger sister. But doesn't mean it's gospel!
Very nice find! Looking at your pictures , Very interesting!


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Post by tdump » Sat Jul 16, 2022 10:26 am

Just thought I would post this.
My latest "fix it project".Not a restoration as people would accuse me of just converting it.
1980 Wheel Horse E- 141 electric tractor.
the little yellow 1 is my E-8 GE Electrac just for size comparison.
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Post by Professor Fate » Sun Jul 17, 2022 12:01 am

8n's doing tobacco duty at my friends farm.
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Post by Duey_C » Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:50 am

That old Twin City 21-32 tractor I’ve been working on. Second off the line after production was introduced on Jan 1, 1929.
I went transmission fishing up thru the drain plug (magnetic colonoscopy) after draining a couple years ago.
Found some broken bevel gear teeth. (Differential gears).
I knew there was a big broken cotter key from a steering incident in there. Replaced that missing cotter.
Of course it went thru the gears. The differential gear shards were alarming tho.
Jeez, I have another tractor right here in the yard but it’s another 1929 tractor. First year production.
Hugh Jass project but no, not sharing/lending parts from that. Other than fenders...
I layed low and pondered a replacement bull gear/differential/ and what to do.
A friend went fishing for steering parts in the glue on a 1930 parts tractor in April for a later 1930 tractor he found.
His “new" tractor had gone thru a steering incident also but broke the sector gear holder where the column screws in.
So busted-up he couldn’t get the steering column out of the transmission cover pass-thru hole.
The gear. He was willing to fish-out the bull gear/differential and even delivered it!
This tractor not meant for real field work anymore due to his heritage. Too early and loose.
Mustn’t split the transmission case apart on HEAVY pulls either. 1st 500 units. After that there is a support to help.
232. The bits. One can tell a lot about crunched parts by the striations.
Hard pieces are rough sided while soft things like the cotter pin are smoother.
1. 5/8 X 6 bolts do a nice deal of holding the axles so ya don’t have to wrangle them by themselves.
11. Where the missing bevel gear teeth belong I found when fishing.
5. Hang the new gear in the case and fuss with re-installing axles.
The left axle, much like a combination pad-lock, bucked us at every turn until the combo was found.
21 right, 17 left, twice around right to 28 sort of thing...
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Post by OlGeezer » Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:48 pm

My dad have a Mahindra that of course he is not using it anymore but it is so coool. I think it is impossible to find so good tractors now.


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Post by MechanicalWheel » Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:24 pm

My dad had a bunch of tractors on our farm, including a classic like the 1952 John Deere Model B. He loved collecting and using them for all sorts of farm work. Growing up around these machines was great, but when I took over, I decided to go with newer models for reliability and efficiency.


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Post by Bryant » Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:44 pm

She turned 80 this year. Is that old enough? Starting to get Cataracts in one eye.
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