Old Faithful
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Topic: Old Faithful
Posted By: Don(MI)
Subject: Old Faithful
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2018 at 8:46pm
I wanna hear stories and see pictures of the best old tractor you got on the farm. That allis that starts right up everytime or good ol girl that could pull a freight train out of a ditch without spinning a tire. Whatcha got?
------------- Galatians 5:22-24
"I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!"
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Posted By: im4racin
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2018 at 9:15pm
I have 2 of them. D14 and a ca. The 14 is just how we bought it. It's the most dependable tractor that we haven't overhauled. We use it for all the hay mowing. It has a homemade 3pt that the 80r3 fits perfectly on. It also pulls the plow and disk for the 1/2 acre corn patch.
The ca...bought with a cracked liner and stuck. Pretty much started in the front and worked our way back. It can sit for months with the 6v batt hooked up and fuel left on and start on about the 2nd revolution. I use it for raking and planting the corn. Those are my go to tractors!
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 7:00am
You don't want to see my most reliable tractor, it's green, and it's been incredible!
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Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 10:19am
Mine is red and I am the third owner of it in 78 years. My dad and I both drove it for the same guy as hired hands. He will be 87 in a couple of months.I bought at his auction and the 4 brothers did not want it but wanted me to get it. Farmall M
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Posted By: 45 turboa-
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 12:34pm
My WF would always start one time many years ago it 40 below my wife flooded the car so I was going to start the truck 1974 Ford F350 pickup with a 460 engine it would turn over but not enough to start the WF started it was close to the truck hooked 2 jumper cables to gather got the truck started. The WF saved the day !
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Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 3:07pm
New to the family last fall this WD45 earned its keep plowing snow all winter. set out in brutel conditions. After a tune up and some fluid changes it seems to be a good 'go to' tractor! Low cost heat houser was a good investment.
Regards,
------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet.
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Posted By: Reindeer
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 4:24pm
I have a 170G that just wants to run. Seems you can hop on it and get it going under most conditions. I shipped it off to my brother in law a year and half ago, to his place near Vancouver. He has been using it to clean up a 14 acre parcel he has and although he has a 8N and other tractors, he says it just starts and runs, and works, so is his go to machine.
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 6:48pm
My two are a 1940 C and a 56 WD45. The C is a rare one that pops off with no choke or anything when it's -15 outside. The WD45 will start ANYTIME and no matter what's going on, -25, raining or snowing, sitting for a year,,,,, it'll start right up. I keep saying that I'm gonna change the plugs in it, but then,,,,,WHY?? Posting Pics???? I HAVE to talk to Darin!!!
------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2018 at 7:09pm
Lately it's been my son's 185. He's only had it for a year and a half, but it's been the "go to" tractor for anything chore related. Darrel
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Posted By: cdon_FL
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2018 at 4:32am
David Brown 770 diesel
------------- Chris in NE Florida
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Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2018 at 5:43am
D15 always fires right up and my Oliver 1365 with loader.
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Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2018 at 10:51pm
 Bumble B-10. Out of all the garden tractors we have this one seems to get used most, snow plow mows and leaf vacuum
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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2018 at 7:15am
Dad's old D17. Used on our dairy farm for many years just about 365 days a year. Used as a loader tractor - moving round bales, silage, snow, bucking and hauling manure, pulling drill, planter, disk, cultivating, corn picker, grinding feed. For a while it was our do everything tractor. Easy starter in our very cold winters. I wish we had pics of it when it was covered in about an inch of solid ice after the ice storm of 1991 and I had to chip the ice away from the governor and carb linkage before we could start it. It was a bitter cold winter that year but we still had periods of icing which for us was unusual. The frequent ice that is. Cold was normal.
Dad still has it in the shed but since his health has been declining in recent years it has been a while since it has been run. Maybe I should get it pulled out this summer. Dad had some needed surgury last week and seems to be feeling better all each day.
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Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2018 at 1:11pm
Lonn wrote:
Dad's old D17. Used on our dairy farm for many years just about 365 days a year. Used as a loader tractor - moving round bales, silage, snow, bucking and hauling manure, pulling drill, planter, disk, cultivating, corn picker, grinding feed. For a while it was our do everything tractor. Easy starter in our very cold winters. I wish we had pics of it when it was covered in about an inch of solid ice after the ice storm of 1991 and I had to chip the ice away from the governor and carb linkage before we could start it. It was a bitter cold winter that year but we still had periods of icing which for us was unusual. The frequent ice that is. Cold was normal.
Dad still has it in the shed but since his health has been declining in recent years it has been a while since it has been run. Maybe I should get it pulled out this summer. Dad had some needed surgury last week and seems to be feeling better all each day.
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Lonn, Sounds like you need to get that 17 out and take some pictures for us! Regards, Chris
------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet.
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Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2018 at 8:14am
"Old Faithful" is exactly what Dad always called this old girl. The rare occasion when the 190XT was down during haying season, Dad never hesitated to hook the old 45 up to the haybine to keep going. Normally, we used her most of the year on the manure spreader and pulling wagons up to the elevator for unloading hay all summer. We put up around 24,000 bales a year for our 100+ cow dairy in upstate NY. As you can tell from the picture, she was set up to run 365 days a year. That snowplow frame has been on her as far back as I can remember and I'm 46. Dad would spend many winter days driving around helping to get neighbors plowed out after those NY winter storms only stopping when it was time for evening milking. She plowed ALOT more snow than she should have had to because often times when the bucket loader would have been more desirable due to the amount of snow, that dang old Oliver 770 would not start.
------------- "My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic"
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