Confess, How Far Did You Travel For That Tractor

Inspired by another thread. Not talking shipped. You hooked up the trailer, got in your truck and went to go get it. I'll start.

3 days and almost 1400 miles round trip for an unstyled WC. It was my grail tractor.

Brad

Wow, I think 4 hours for me.

Charlie

'48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD

Forgot about the 18-30 ,went to Askov Mn. to Doug Rote's 2400 miles round trip

He who dies with the most toys is,
nonetheless ,still dead.
If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED.

When my sons were 8-9 years old we drove almost exactly 3000 miles round trip to Calder SAK to retrieve our WF. A very memorable trip it was, wouldn't do it today ,, unless I had two more sons that age Wink

Fred in Pa wrote:

(witch was the longest trip I ever took ,taking the wrong person to ride along )

I always thought that trip was father /son bonding?????? Guess I had it wrong.

My first Allis WD was 12 miles away, pulled it home behind my pickup on the back roads.

No seat spring, narrow front was wore out so couldn't get above a couple of miles an hour or get a death wobble going on. Under the hood and battery box was full of yellow jackets.

Long ride home but it was free.

Second one was 2 hours away and it ran but used a trailer that time. Still have that one.

My youngest son and myself have had several long road trips looking for digging equipment. It is always a good time. One of his boys usually tag along.

After all those road trips I found a digger 3 miles from my work. Paid for it on my lunch break and the boy had it home by 3.

I wanted an Allis that I could use for tractor caravans. Eldon Jons on here from Spokane Washington, posted that he had a D-10.

We are from Michigan and winter in Florida. One of the GOTO was in Tulare, CA. in April that year, and I had wanted to see the West side of this country, so we left Florida in March and headed west, ending up at Eldon's. We bought that 1965 D-10 with the Range 2 speed gear box ahead of the standard 4 speed. Then continued sight seeing while heading back to MI.

We did not keep track of the miles we traveled, but had a good time.

And that D-10 has been a good tractor for going on caravans.

Dusty

917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express"

Now if I added all the miles for trips to Gary Burnett's picking up any thing from my first model A and U's ,WF's etc. to e-60 P/U's n L9o P/U's .My trucks knew how to get there with out driving them . The one U we hauled from Gary's that Uncle Bill had bought ,went to England to Dave E. after Uncle Bill pasted . Amazing how some tractors can get a lot of miles on them moving them around. . LOL

He who dies with the most toys is,
nonetheless ,still dead.
If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED.

I bought my 185 from a friend and from his barn to my barn is 3.4 miles. My son drove it home and had a ball. the 185 is much faster than our 175.

Dale

Missouri Allis-Chalmers Club
CA Allis, 175 Allis, 185 Allis

I drove 250 miles to get 4 front weights for a D21. Does that count? 250 one way

On the short side...I walked across my neighbors lot to a priest friends 'retirement house' to buy my WD-45. i can measure that in feet.

Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die

880 miles one way. The whole way home was uphill thru the mountains. Boy, won't do that Again.

All my A-C’s came from my cousin’s place, a little over 4 miles away. My Big Ten, late B-10, 616 hydro, 1935 WC on full steel, 1953 CA, 1955 Wd45 with an E-Gleaner engine.
So as far as my entire collection, I bet I have the fewest miles to get everything home....
But, then again, I have been going there quite often, to do something. I just got back from taking the Ca over to mow, it wasn’t very long ago, I took a loader and brought my sc disc, harrow, dirt scoop, boom, and a two bottom plow for the WC. Now I need to pick up the sickle mower and post hole digger.

Oh the crazy things we do for old iron. Dad and I went up to Alberta Phil's place in Tofield Alberta Canada (near Edmonton) the fall of 2016 to get my 20-35 lonfender projects. Over a 1,200 mile round trip from here in Kenmare, ND. And we did that twice in a weeks time because there were two tractors, so over 2,500 miles total that week. And that is not counting the 600 miles from Ashland, WI to here in Kenmare that Dad had to come to "start" our journey. So got about 5,000 miles total to get both tractors home to Ashland in the end. Not all one continuous trip, but still.

It was a fun time going up to Canada though, it was the first time either Dad or I had been up there. It is true what they say, Canadians really are friendly too, as one helped us out when we got slightly lost in Moose Jaw I believe it was. Led us back out to the edge of town and got us pointed the right direction we wanted to be traveling. Conversation started at a stop light as we were trying to figure out were we had made a wrong turn and how to get back on track. Guy next to us rolls down his window and asks "what year is the old girl?" pointing back at the tractor on the trailer. I told him, and we made a quick little chit chat. I asked "which way back to (whatever highway we were looking for)?" He says "let me in front of you and just follow me, I'll lead the way!" So we let him get in front of us when the light turned green and he ziggled us through town and got us back on track. Never did get to formally thank him, but gave the old toot of the horn and thank you wave as we went on our way. Really was nice of him, he didn't have to go out of his way to help two complete strangers like us, but he did and din't even hesitate to do so.

Not to mention the hospitality that Phil gave us, giving a personalized tour of the Reynolds Alberta Museum.

Making memories, that is what these road trips are about.

Who wants to load the truck up and go on an adventure? I'm in!

Edited by Jacob (WI,ND) - 25 May 2018 at 8:12pm

Jacob Swanson
1920 6-12; 1925,1926 20-35 longfenders; 1925,1926 15-25's; 1927,1929 20-35 shortfenders; C; B's; IB; WC's; WD; WD45

I drove 2236 tound trip to get my WD45 Distillate which won’t be a record but I did it when my newborn son was a week old and let me tell you I still hear about that from time to time! Another trip to north of Cadillac Michigan for a 40 combine, a mere 1420 miles.

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