Cute Li'l tractor
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Topic: Cute Li'l tractor
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Subject: Cute Li'l tractor
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2023 at 9:24pm
One of my regular customers brought this little guy in for me to get the rear doors and latches working and a few other minor items. Man, that little cab is a tight squeeze and really hard to climb in and out of!! No wonder they didn't make many of them! It's a '39 Minnie Mo RTS. One of the first tractors with a cab option. Side windows roll up and down. Looks like late '30's window mechanism.   |
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2023 at 10:00pm
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Can we say that the cab idea was ahead of its time? ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2023 at 6:34am
| Can say YES to that Floyd!! Can imagine was laughed at 'In the Day'. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2023 at 9:27am
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The seat mounts on the small platform on the left side of the cab. It has a back that folds over the seat base so you can climb in or out. When seated, you need to be a contortionist to reach around to close the doors. Not a good design! And no provision for wipers on the windshield. This tractor must have been the model they used for the tractors in that Disney movie "Cars" that my grandkids love so much.
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2023 at 1:42pm
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Wonder how they used the pto... without getting tangled up in it... and not wreak the cab while using it. ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2023 at 3:08pm
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I have seen a couple January days that a cab would be handy.. No matter HOW HARD it is to get inside ! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2023 at 5:04pm
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PTO looks like it was never used. Anyway, there is no hole in the back of the cab that a shaft would fit through. I've heard that these were used quite often for rural mail delivery. With those big skinny drive tires you could usually get through. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2023 at 1:49am
| some of those had a wider cab and a bench seat inside, UDLUX I think it was. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2023 at 9:54am
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You're right, Dale. I've had a couple of those through my shop.  |