New off color tractor
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Topic: New off color tractor
Posted By: MNLonnie
Subject: New off color tractor
Date Posted: 05 May 2017 at 9:43pm
Put on 900 miles today to get my new tractor. It's a Ford Model T with a tractor conversion kit on it. I'll stick my spare engine in it and it should be ready to go. You basically remove the rear wheels and install the tag axle and braces and boom, poor mans tractor. This one has been shortened about 3 feet.  ------------- Waukesha B, B, IB, G, styled WF, D15, 615 backhoe, 2-Oliver OC3's, 4 Ford Model T's, 3 Model A Fords, AV8 Coupe, AV8 Roadster, 1933 Ford Wrecker |
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Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 05 May 2017 at 9:48pm
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I like that!
------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 05 May 2017 at 10:23pm
| Awesome!! Ford "tractor" bug strikes again! Lol |
Posted By: chuck (WI)
Date Posted: 05 May 2017 at 10:29pm
| Never knew they did such a thing, maybe that's what brought em to the TW series. |
Posted By: Ron(AB)
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 12:18am
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Wow! Are times getting that tough! I thought Trump was making things better? (joking) It looks great! Does/did it run on alcohol or gasoline? |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 12:41am
| I've seen pics and read stories on them things! but was never really able to find out how much they could pull, like plows and disks? maybe they just used them to seeding and harrowing? had to be light duty stuff since it is a ford! (poke,poke) |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 12:55am
 Ouch! Lol |
shameless dude wrote:Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 4:29am
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Seen them before at shows. Very, very cool. Would love th have one! ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 5:14am
Cool Man!!!  ------------- |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 6:03am
| Bugs in general are real popular at the rolog show and I see then at other shows also. I bet they worked real good for haying thinking more the ones with rubber tires and twin transmissions. |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 6:05am
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Link to a picture of a conversion: Gary http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/278922.html?1340397506 |
Posted By: MNLonnie
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 6:47am
I'm not sure what they were capable of but about all there was is horse drawn equipment at the time so I guess anything a horse can do? It should go good with the Doodlebug that I built. My bug has a Model A tranny behind the T tranny so there are lots of gears to choose from. ------------- Waukesha B, B, IB, G, styled WF, D15, 615 backhoe, 2-Oliver OC3's, 4 Ford Model T's, 3 Model A Fords, AV8 Coupe, AV8 Roadster, 1933 Ford Wrecker |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 7:54am
| So Lonnie.....how fast will that one with 2 trannys go??? Lol |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 9:45am
| isn't that what that golfer used all the time? |
Posted By: MNLonnie
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 10:43am
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The 2 trannys won't get you going any faster but you have a pile of granny gears to pick from. ------------- Waukesha B, B, IB, G, styled WF, D15, 615 backhoe, 2-Oliver OC3's, 4 Ford Model T's, 3 Model A Fords, AV8 Coupe, AV8 Roadster, 1933 Ford Wrecker |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 10:43am
| Have seen a few around Ohio at shows |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 12:13pm
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I have a book on model Ts. There were several variations on converting Ts to tractors. Some fairly simple, some harder like changing the axle. There was also a factor option for the TT trucks (that had a worm drive rear axle with a higher ratio so more torque to the wheels than the car axle but using the same engine and transmission up front) to add a three speed lever shift transmission right behind the standard T transmission. I have found a least half a dozen different transmissions used. The top speed of the truck was about 25 mph with the worm drive rear axle. The three speed plus reverse option gave the truck lots of slow speeds and one confusing forward gear with both transmissions in reverse. Gerald J. |
Posted By: MNLonnie
Date Posted: 06 May 2017 at 4:19pm
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My TT truck has the high speed (5.16:1) rearend it and my Doodlebug has the low speed (7.25:1) in it. Like you said the high speed tops out at around 25 mph and the low speed about 18 mph. My TT had a Jumbo 3 speed Transmission behind the stock one which would give you underdrive, straight through and overdrive so it would go few miles an hour faster but I removed it since I don't haul anything I didn't need the underdrive and those trannys are very noisy with straight cut gears. ------------- Waukesha B, B, IB, G, styled WF, D15, 615 backhoe, 2-Oliver OC3's, 4 Ford Model T's, 3 Model A Fords, AV8 Coupe, AV8 Roadster, 1933 Ford Wrecker |