WD/WD45 wide fronts
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Topic: WD/WD45 wide fronts
Posted By: m16ty
Subject: WD/WD45 wide fronts
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 10:34pm
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The production numbers show that in the WD/WD45 series, they built far more numbers of wide front ends than they did narrow fronts. I've only seen one wide front in our area (I've seen untold 100s of narrow fronts). If they sold more wide fronts it sure wasn't around here. Where are all the wide fronts? |
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Posted By: Tedin NE-OH
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 10:37pm
| One WD wfe here in NE Ohio |
Posted By: 79fordblake
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 10:42pm
| I have one with wfe and I only know of one other one around here. People will kill to get one with wfe around here......mine use to be narrow front....Grandpa put a 3 bolt front end under it.....supposed to be 4 bolt front end for the year it is.....can't find one though. |
Posted By: wdforty5
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 10:50pm
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I have a wide front here in IL.
How do you tell the difference between the 3 and 4 bolt FE? (Besides the obvious)
Where are the bolts at?
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Posted By: m16ty
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 11:06pm
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I personally prefer the narrow front. I'm looking for a narrow front to go under my D19 now (will trade a good wide front). Went back and looked at the numbers and I'm wrong. There were more nfe WDs than there were wfe. 112,345 nfe, 29,846 wfe. There were more WD45 wfe though. 38,136 nfe, 50,895 wfe. |
Posted By: Rfdeere
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 11:25pm
The bolts are on the front of the cast housing that is between the frame rails. ------------- Randy Freshour,Member Indiana AC Partners, http://www.rumelyallis.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.rumelyallis.com |
wdforty5 wrote:Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 7:50am
| I don't know if those numbers are right. I've never seen many WD45's with wfe compared to the number of nfe around here (north central IL), but the factory installed ones I've seen usually have factory power steering. |
Posted By: Brian G. NY
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 5:06pm
| m16ty, your second post confirms my own observations; more WDs had NFEs and more WD-45s had WFEs. |
Posted By: m16ty
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 6:46pm
Those numbers are directly out of Norm Swinford's book. |
Posted By: j.w.freck
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 8:58pm
| my 8 here in texas have the wide front axle... |
Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 9:18pm
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I've only seen a couple nfe WD45s up here, mostly I see wide fronts ------------- red and green are nice for christmas, but orange is all year round http://www.canadianantiquetractor.com/tractorforum/ |
Posted By: MBwcIll
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 9:21pm
| More nf in my area than wides. But, our neighbor did buy a new 1952 WD wide front, the only one i remember. We bought it to chore with on his sale. It was so wore out when we sold it to another neighbor about 1970. Dad's story was it was too hard to put front mounted cultivators on a wide front and that was the end of story. We also put a mounter picker on our 45. So my guess is, it depended on the region and intended use of the WD, as to nf verses wfe. |
Posted By: acwdwcman
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 9:21pm
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i got a wd w/factory 3 bolt wfe ------------- wd with a freeman model 90 trip loader, wd45, 38 unstylled wc, b 10 garden tractor and 2-14 ac trip plow. grandpa has a 56 wd45. wd. allis chalmers snap coupler blade and 3 bottom snap coupler plow |
Posted By: TREVMAN
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 9:39pm
| Up in these parts, never seen a narrow front on any AC tractor, or any brand for that matter, Trev. |
Posted By: m16ty
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 9:56pm
That seems very odd to me. Any tractor around here that was made before 1960 has a narrow front. My WD45 has the interchangeable front axle but is set up narrow front. |
Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 10:41pm
------------- red and green are nice for christmas, but orange is all year round http://www.canadianantiquetractor.com/tractorforum/ |
Posted By: Embellem
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 1:05pm
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OK, quick survey of WDs/WD45s for sale on Tractorhouse.com that show or mention which front setup they have (and this is a miniscule sample, so not sure this has much validity)... 20 WD45s, 9 have wide fronts 13 WDs, 3 have wide fronts |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 2:04pm
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Well in central Nebraska, I actually see far more Wide Fronts, than narrow ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 3:52pm
| I suppose the reason we don't have very many wfe WD & WD45's here in IL is the same reason we don't see WF's and D17 wheatlands or any wheatlands for that matter. We used to cultivate everything multiple times and before 3pt hitches (or the D series in our case) everyone used mounted cultivators. We used rear mounted cultivators starting with the series I D17 with an AC four row 38" snap coupler. After we changed to 30" rows and I started farming, I bought a used AC 8 row 30" hyd fold 3pt to use on the series IV D17, Dad was already using the XT to cultivate with a Noble 8 row 30" danish tine Before that we had 4 row mounted cultivators on the WD45 and before that on a John Deere A. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 4:17pm
| Most of the WD45's I've seen out here in the Dakotas are wide fronts. I grew up in central Minnesota and saw mostly NF's and a lot of them still had the cultivator brackets on them. I've never seen a cultivator out here. The distrabuation of wide fronts was mostly regional usage based. |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 5:45pm
| Only narrow front A C's in this area of the country are WC's and C's I know of one narrow front WD here and it was brought in from Minn. by a local collector a couple of years ago. All WD and WD45's sold here were wide front. We don't do much row crop here. |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 6:35pm
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You know, I don't think Pop ever ordered a wide front WC, WD, WD-45. We were forced into the WF when the D series came out but Pop still persisted in ordering nf tractors. Even the D series. Good Luck! Bill Long |
Posted By: WD45
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 8:43pm
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We have 4 wide front WD45;s 2 gas, diesel and a propane . ------------- Fred Dunlop, G,B,CA, WC,WF, 3 WD45`s,gas, diesel and LP,U,D10 series III, D12,D14,D15 SERIES II,D17 Series IV in Gas and Diesel ,D19 GAS and D21,170 185,210 ,220 an I-600 8070 fwd, 716H and 1920H |
Posted By: bdallman
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2011 at 2:06pm
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I got a 45 wide front, One of my neighbors has 2 45 wide fronts. another neighbor has 1 Wide front 45, i can think of at least 10-15 45's in this area with wide fronts. We have quite a large pocket of wd and wd45's in Northeast Kansas. It seems like everywhere you look there is an old Allis. I will say the majority of wd's around here are narrow front. I do know that the Sales Block that was Northeast Ks during the 50's was one of the highest selling blocks. That explains quite a bit...lol ------------- 1954 CA, 1952 WD with Freeman Loader,1955 WD45, 1963 D19 Gas, 1984 620H, 1980’s AC Forklift, 66 All Crop Harvester, White Top Roto Baler, Misc S.C. Equip and AC Collectibles. |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2011 at 2:19pm
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90% wide fronts out here, except for the WC's. ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2011 at 6:42pm
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Here in Indiana most of the WD's had narrow fronts, with the coming of the 45's there was a shift to the wide front and most of the laters ones were equipped that way. ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: Michael Crowe
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2011 at 6:48pm
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If you look at the dealer registry you will see a post by Frances Curless. Her husband, Charles Curless was the block man for the NE part of Kansas and it was a good block. He is related to the owner of this site. Charles' brother Frank "Happy" Curless was my Granddad and the dealer in Liberal, MO. In 1955 he was a 3 star dealer. Both Missouri and Kansas had a bunch of good dealers and that is why there are so much orange equipmetn still here. ------------- The 14th Annual Exclusive AC Swap Meet will be held in Boonville, MO, March 7-8, 2025. See the club website for details: http://www.moacclub.com/ |
Posted By: Michael Crowe
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2011 at 6:57pm
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This is my favorite AC tractor. In our area still probably more nf than wf, even for the 45, but the wf can be found with little effort. I have 5 WDs, all nf, two with factory ps, 6 WD45s, 5 wf, four with factory ps, but I have 4 wf to put on them. The WDs are gas, distillate and LPG/gas; the 45s are gas, diesel,distillate and LPG/gas. ------------- The 14th Annual Exclusive AC Swap Meet will be held in Boonville, MO, March 7-8, 2025. See the club website for details: http://www.moacclub.com/ |