Old Tractors and Farm Equipment

Somehow it keeps following me home. Hardest part is to leave things behind! I’m out of room…. Time for a bigger barn!!!

 

Wait. You can’t do your bigger barn before I add onto mine!

 

Maybe we can get a 2 for 1 package deal!?

 

Got the screen in today. Ran a bushel of the not so great ears of popcorn through. Ran good!!

 

Had my family heirloom out today. 1937 Centaur KV #191 of about 300. Made in Greenwich Ohio. Pretty neat little tractor especially since there’s no floor board.
It was my great grandparents they used along side an F-20 on their small farm. When I was a junior in high school 2003 I helped my grandpa clean out the house and barn. I ended up with the tractor and went through it and got it running again. It had been parked since 1973. Grandpa knew the belt pulley and drove were in a burlap sack somewhere but we had no luck.
In 2005 my cousin had bought the house and was fixing up the barn when he found a burlap sack under a mess of hay with something heavy in it. Son of gun there was the pulley and drive!
I haven’t had a use for it so it’s been sitting on the corner of my bench until today. I went through it and got it on the tractor. Now it makes running the sheller even more fun!

 

That is cool, and a cool story!

 

That looks like a Farmall A or a Cub/Super Cub. Growing up we had a Super Cub that we used for spraying and cultivating between the rows. Unfortunately it sits at my uncles house in the front yard.

I just went back a page and saw the better pics you had of the Cub. Great memories for me.

 

That looks like a Wheelie Riding Machine!!

 

Got to be easy on the clutch! It’s a torquey little tractor and will pull the wheels up quick if you aren’t paying attention. We’ve used it yearly to pull a McCormick Big 6 horse drawn sickle mower and cut oats. That’s plenty of work for it I try to be gentle on it.

 

Ole Grandpa knew what he was talking about!! You made him smile today for sure! Good on both of you. If he were here he would enjoy running that with you.

Here is the latest one that "followed me home" about a month ago. Wiring burnt under dash, just got done rewiring it Monday. Fired up and ran very well. Carb leaks through the electric solenoid. This is it the day I picked it up.

 

Sweet! Look at the tires on that bad boy good for mowing or floating!
Get that selenoid sealed up and make sure it works to keep the needle pushed up so she doesn’t have fuel leaking all over when it’s shut off.

 

Not great pictures as it is still in storage at my dad's pole building. Was his brother's until we went up to Washington to pick it up after he passed away. He is giving it to me, but living in the city means i have to find room for it. Original with several implements including sickle mower and blade. He went through the fluids after we picked it up so should start with minimal effort.

 

1947 Allis Chalmers C

 

Hmm...

 

Well that clears things right up!
The only sticker I see that could have come from a red dealer is the "M&W" sticker...does it not have a turbo kit on it?
I've spent many hours on a 4020 with a M&W kit on it...pump turned up some too...140HP on the dyno as I recall...and about 25 MPH down the road...it would run right with a 4440, but if pulling heavy (like plowing) for hours on end on a hot day, the temp would creep up pretty high, you had to watch it.
One day we had to take a couple loads of hay to a customer a few miles down the road...dunno why we didn't take the truck, but both loads were pulled with a tractor, the 4020 being one of them...the guy driving it was a bit of a numbnutz, and the tractor would every once in a while lose the brakes (some weird very random hydraulic issue) well, on the way home it was getting close to milking time, it was hot, and we were sweaty from unloading 2 heaping loads of small squares, kinda in a hurry...anyways, he pulls out of the customers driveway and floors it...but didn't leave off in plenty of time to slow down for the soon coming hard right turn ahead...I don't think anyone will ever know why, must have been panic from suddenly loosing his brakes right before the coming turn (he could have went on past and just turned around though too) but the goofball managed to steer off the edge of the road and clip a large wooden phone pole with the front axle of the tractor...snapped it right off too! (the axle...and I think he had to pay for a damaged pole too)
Boy was the boss ever mad at him! Didn't make any money on that hay!
Seems to me the brake issue was fixed after that then too...it was super intermittent, and everyone knew about it, so it was understood that you just let off early and test your brakes before they were actually needed when driving on the road...ah, good times...I think that was the year that I quit n went to work at the bike shop that fall...

 

Sounds like a worthy project...I always liked driving that 4020/M&W...sure sounded good with a nice chrome straight pipe on it too!
BTW, I would have never caught the little 4010 details!