Why do you like AC???

So i always like to here people stories so....What makes you such an Allis chalmers fan and enthusiast?? Whats your story for being hooked on the orange?? let me see some stories!!!

Grandpa was an AC dealer in the 50-early 60's. then dad and uncle got started in DA in November of 1985 and still with AGCO today.  Always seem to get back to AC as our favorite.

My earliest memory of AC's is from when I was 5. I remember the dealer unloading a new series IV 17 off the truck. Dad traded an earlier model 17 for it. That was our big tractor from 68 to 72 when we got a 185.

This march I got the urge to buy a tractor. I've gone to antique tractor shows with my dad and was always interested, but like my dad I was a Farmall fan. When i started looking I was planning on getting a Cub but then looked at other tractors that were about the same size and when I was the B I was hooked on AC. Since I found this site my plan eventually having a B and a 1 acre garden to at least 10 tractors and about 100 acres (maybe more). I just bought my first AC a few weeks ago, a WD45

Edited by jhid - 30 Nov 2011 at 9:23pm

In 1953,when I was twelve, I finally got to drive a tractor in the field for the first time. I was on my dad's 37 WC with an 8' Dunham tandem disc behind it. I got along fine in the morning, but after dinner I got off one row. I was supposed to follow where the picker ran so the entire weight of the disc would chop best. Being one row off it didn't chop as well, and I did maybe 12-15 acres that afternoon. When my uncle saw what I had done, he fired me and I couldn't disc anymore. It took a whole year before he would let me disc again, and I still remember him asking if I was SURE I could stay on the right row.  After a year of anticipation I had learned where I was supposed to drive AND why.LOL      Never forgot that lesson! I still have that WC, it's in a basket waiting for me to put back together, and I will before our fair next summer. Just got to wait for my back to heal and the Doc to turn me loose. Dad bought that tractor new and farmed with it till he died in 1941 when I was 9 months old, so it means a lot to me. I still have the origianl sales bill! 

Well i work for  a cat dealer the bigest in Australiaand have done for 35 years

It's pretty simple for me. Since I started my small grain farm operation it's been about staying in the black on the balance sheet. I have had 4 AC tractors (180, 7000, another 7000, now a 7060), one at a time and each has served me well. To purchase a comparable JD (which has the only dealer in my county) in my area would cost 2-3 times as much. I have no problem with other brands but AC has earned my affection. I grew up on Oliver, White, and JD.

In 1954 my dairy farmer father was looking at buying a new tractor, presumably to keep his sons on the farm. He looked at AC and JD, and then settled on an AC CA. The AC dealer asked him what specifically the CA was going to be asked do and when my father was finished the AC dealer told him, no.... he would not sell him the CA..as it was too small for his operation and intended use, But he suggested looking at a WD-45. My father, who didn't want to pay the extra dollars for a bigger tractor,  then went to the JD dealer who gladly sold him a JD 40....with a heavy industrial loader... the tractor came apart within a year and then another 40 that was also a maintenance nightmare. My father, then had enough and traded/upgraded to a JD 60. My Dad, now at 95 years of age, still has the tractor today. When I started farming my first tractor was a used WD-45 from an AC dealer, who is remembered as an honorable man. Maybe my fascination with the AC iron has something to do with the integrity of the people we dealt with, maybe it's the long service life of AC tractors, maybe it's the balance of the WD, D-17, 170/175 machines... And maybe just maybe I "wax nostalgia" thinking about those good people and a more simpler time ... and associate AC with a time and place where honor and integrity was somewhat more easily found.   

This guy right here, my grandpa.

My uncle was a dealer in the 1940 to 1970 time frame and dad farmed with AC and it was just natural for me to go with AC.  I do find they are simple and easy to work on.  I still have dads last tractor he bought.

well my family always had Jd's and fords', (I still think the ford 5000 was one of the best tractors ever made). My dad traded in his agway L&G tractor to our local AC dealer for an AC 710 and I was hooked for life. Its crazy I know but I love my D-15 II. My Dads "B" is awesome to as well as our 616 and 620. Plus all the other AC stuff we've gathered.

My Dad bought a new 190xt in 1966. They always had Rumely or Gleaner before that for threshing. Some of my first memories are being on the floor of that 190xt sleeping on a gunny sack while my dad worked summerfallow. He also had an hd5 shovel. It got burned into my brain. We took a lot of static from neighbors as my Dad was the only Allis/Gleaner guy around for a few miles. He was the only one around in our greater area that kept both. I learned that its alright to lead the pack (less rectums to deal with), later I learned that they were truly "Better by Design". Since the "family" farm folded in 1995, and in the last couple of years, the gleaner/allis stuff seems to find me! My E came from a man who knew I was a gleaner freak and phoned me up to see if I wanted it...My WD is the same story, an aquaintance bought an acreage, the tractor was there and since he bought a new Kubota (at least its orange and a really good tractor) he phoned me up and offered me the WD. So, I guess its kharma man, Trev.

My grand dad was a serviceman and demonstrator mainly for the AC construction equipment. Dozers, motor graders, and scrapers. He used a WD45 on the farm out east of Dallas. Spent many a day riding on the tool box. I have that tractor now, working to get it back to running condition.

Grew up on them, did not like dads WD45, liked the D17 better.  But Still have dads WD45 that he bought new.  It was his favorite tractor.

We had 7 ACs(WF,C,WC,WD,WD45,D19,190XT) and 3 Olivers(770x2,1750) on the farm while I was growing up. My earliest memories are sitting on the fuel tank between the seat and fender on the 190XT while Dad did field work and then sitting on his lap and "driving" down the road as he bumped the throttle more and more. I learned to drive on the WD and WD45. After Grandpa passed away and then Mom left, the 1750 Oliver was all mine. The 190XT and D19 still managed to remind me who the top dogs really were on occasion. When the farm sold, so did the Olivers. Dad kept the ACs and we still enjoy tinkering with them whenever we can.