Why do you like AC???
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Topic: Why do you like AC???
Posted By: bdallman
Subject: Why do you like AC???
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 8:36pm
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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!!! ------------- 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. |
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Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 8:46pm
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Well, when I was younger I used to not care about tractors or farming. Then oneday I went with my uncle and cousin who are big CASE collectors to the tractor show in Paris, KY. While there I grew fond of the AC's because I thought they looked cool and I liked the orange color. From there I went home and trolled around on the internet (this site alot) and found out the story and innovations that AC pioneered. I just really like the idea of keeping a major brand like AC from dissapering into the history books. It makes me feel like what I am doing really matters. ------------- 1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500 |
Posted By: Dale-OH
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 8:50pm
| 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. |
Posted By: acwdwcman
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 9:03pm
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i think me or someone else asked this question a long time ago. but here it goes my grandpa has had a wd45 for about 15 or 16 years (before i was born). i used to like john deere but hen i drove my grandpa's tractor and i loved it (this is when i fell in love with tractors). we then painted his tractor and then we showed it at a local show for the first time. about a year later i started realy liking allis chalmers. two years later i got a wd factory wide front for my 13th birthday. and that fall i got a 38 wc not im 14 and i work on antique tractors amd get paid for it! but now i have fell in love with allis chalmers tractors. and i will probably by more tractors in my future. ------------- 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: Dean/MN
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 9:08pm
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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. ------------- HD16,917H,185,7050,8030FWA,8050FWA |
Posted By: omahagreg
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 9:09pm
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Grandpa always had AC when I knew him! Dad worked as a mechanic for Wells Implement (still an AGCO dealer) in Plymouth Nebraska, which was Grandpas dealer as well. Dad has some interesting stories, such as delivering, setting up, and field testing the first Gleaner E combine that Wells sold! ------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |
Posted By: jhid
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 9:21pm
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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 ------------- red and green are nice for christmas, but orange is all year round http://www.canadianantiquetractor.com/tractorforum/ |
Posted By: stray
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 9:25pm
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When I was in high school I helped a farmer that was an AC man, it was the only real farming that I've done up to then. He had a 7000, 200, D19, D17 and a WD45 before I went to tech school. Then after I got back he had gotten in to antque tractors and added a B, WC, plus a couple off brands. The one that I ran the most and my favorite was the 200. Or could it be that a WD was the first tractor that I drove even though I was to young to remember. My cousin and I would play on the tractors on the farm that my grandfather shared crop. Going just by what my dad had told me about the time. I was playing on the WD in the front yard, while the adults was in the back yard. And dad said he saw the WD coming around the house aheaded toward the pond. Dad said he start running toward the tractor in hopes of being able to grab me before the tractor hit the water. As he was about to grab me I stepped up and pulled the hand clutch back and stopped the tractor. I've always heard that you never forget the first tractor you drive. So could something sub consciously remember that tractor ride? ------------- 1969 190XT series 3 |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 10:16pm
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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! ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: bincitybandit
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2011 at 10:55pm
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It is difficult for me to explain my affection for AC tractors. My dad always ran JD equipment on the farm, and I/we still do. My introduction to AC was about 16 years ago when my dad traded his 706 International rock picker/auger/yard tractor for a D17. I just took a liking to that tractor, the orange color, mowing ditches, harrowing the yard in the spring, hooking to an old Versatile auger during harvest...........................it just grew on me. Simple old tractor, yet ahead of its time. Have come to find out that my father's uncle, who along with my grandfather eventually turned the farm over to my dad, was an Allis Chalmers man. Maybe that's why my dad traded that awful 706 for the D17 so many years ago.................... ------------- ALLIS: B, WC, G, G, D10, D12, D14, D14(NF), D15, D17, D17(NF), D19, D21, D21 MINNEAPOLIS MOLINE: U, U, U(NF), GB JOHN DEERE: L FORD: 871 Select-O-Speed CASE: 600 Combine |
Posted By: keithm
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 1:50am
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Well i work for a cat dealer the bigest in Australiaand have done for 35 years
but i still have AC allis b tractors 1940 1941 one has been rebuilt from a box of bits i found in a farm shed out west hope to one day end up with a cat 22
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Posted By: Jeff Z. NY
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 4:57am
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Well it all started when I went to a tractor auction.
I got there late and everything was sold except some AC's. The owner of them did not want to truck them back home. He said you truck them out of here and there yours. ------------- I Love Meatballs and Dumplings on Toast with Gravy and Rosemary and ??? {Open For Suggestions} |
Posted By: Ben (MI)
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 6:47am
| 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. |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 7:10am
| I have aiways liked old iron, bought my first tractor (B JD ) at age 16, then had some Farmall's-- got my first AC about 20 years ago from a former AC dealer. IT is a B that I still have. Got into tractor caravaning in 94 . I have had about 20 AC's the bigest thing for me is the great people I have met along the way. |
Posted By: Longmeadow Farm
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 7:12am
| 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. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 7:50am
| We had AC equipment when my Dad farmed in the 50's and early 60's. He and my uncle then started an AC dealership in the 60's and it lasted until the early 80's when things got tough. I've still got some of my Dad's (and Great grandfathers) AC equipment. |
Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 8:19am
This guy right here, my grandpa.
 He told me a story, that he used to ride on the back cultivator gang off a 'C' while his dad cultivated, to add weight for harder ground. He used to ride at night also, and remembered the taillight on the tractor shining down. I think he was around 10 years old. We took this picture, after he told me the story. ------------- Galatians 5:22-24 "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!" |
Posted By: Seth Souerdike
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 8:22am
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probely because there the strongest most reliable tractor of there time (and this time)
------------- There are no atheist in foxholes. |
Posted By: bauerd44
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 8:24am
| 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. |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 9:04am
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I grew up in an orange household as did my father. My uncle had a WC and a C. Grandpa had a C. They had two farms afew miles apart. Moving from one farm to the other while rowcrop culting, they drove the C's by side and the WC would push them because of the WC's faster road gear. The bars on the rear of the C's cult matched up to the front bar of the WC's cult. in height. Dad would tell when they got close to the field, the WC would slow up fast and the C's would split, then the WC would go in between and enter the field first. We now have my uncles have the WC and Grandpa's C. First AC I drove was a WD45. Ran the C with a Woods belly mower. First fieldwork I did was disking with a 7050. Biggest we had was a 4W305. We have 14 in our Allis Palace, and always a Gleaner combine.
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Posted By: Brian S(NY)
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 9:13am
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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. ------------- God made man.Sam colt made man equal. |
Posted By: Reindeer
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 10:04am
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My great uncle was dealer in Bruce county ontario from the time of the Oil Pull Rumely's until after the war. My dad worked for him, both in the shop and doing custom work with the Rumely's and AC's, so we had some AC on the farm, a WD, and some All Crops. Now have a couple of newer ones. Bin in the family. ------------- |
Posted By: TREVMAN
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 10:37am
| 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. |
Posted By: SenseiCrusher
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 11:50am
| Grandpa had a farm when I was maybe 3 or 4 I still remember the big Orange tractors he had. My first tractor was an AC D17 series I that I am rebuilding now. I think one of my first tender moments with farmer Bill's (my old boss) daughter was over the fender of an AC, I used the 3 point for leverage even back then when plowing new ground. |
Posted By: Jeff(WD45-SATX-TN)
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 12:14pm
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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.
My dad holding me, 1974, 2 years old or so. Grand Dad's WD45 in the background.
 ------------- 1954 WD45 NF "Iron Tater" |
Posted By: Embellem
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 12:31pm
| My grandfather had a WD45 on his farm when I was very young. It wasn't my favorite at the time, but my dad and uncles said it was probably the most reliable tractor they ever had. So that influenced what I bought when I got my first tractor. Now I tend to gravitate toward ACs because they are most familiar to me. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 12:40pm
| 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. |
Posted By: neilwcmn
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 3:06pm
| I grew up driving a wc on a 272acre farm. That adds up to a lot of seat time. I then worked for 2 AC dealers. After that I worked for AC as a service rep. for 15 years What a great company to work for. It was a sad day when they were sold to deutz, |
Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 3:27pm
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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. ------------- "My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic" |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 4:40pm
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Grandad had a dealership, A-C's were part of the family growing up. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 4:53pm
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Grandad took on AC dealership in 1937, Family dealership still going strong with Massey.
It's in the blood. ------------- The universal answer to all questions is yes, how much do you want to spend? |
Posted By: realolman
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 5:11pm
You gotta be kidding.... it's the white steering wheels. |
bdallman wrote:Posted By: DSeries4
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 5:34pm
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My grandfather bought his first AC (used 1958 D14) in 1962. He couldn't believe all the power it had. After too many problems with his Massey Ferguson 65, he traded for the 175 in 1978. We still have both of them, although he passed in 1991. Safe to say, 10 years ago we got the fever and have a lot more! However, it's in reading about the company that you get a real appreciation for them. ------------- '49 G, '54 WD45, '55 CA, '56 WD45D, '57 WD45, '58 D14, '59 D14, '60 D14, '63 D15D, '66 D15II, '66 D21II, '67 D17IV, '67 D17IVD, '67 190XTD, '73 620, '76 185, '77 175, '84 8030, '85 6080 |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 6:48pm
| Just listen to the hum of a well tuned 301 diesel in a 180 - that,ll do it ! Also the history behind Allis , its really too bad things ended so horribly for the whole corporation |
Posted By: Tony Elo
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 6:50pm
we have had this old tractor since 1964,it was always reliable,never gives too much trouble
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Posted By: REEDE
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 8:02pm
| I was three years old in 1963 when dad bought a 1955 WD45 WIDE FRONT . Dad quit farming in 1965 . Went to work for a Allis dealer in 1981 and still there. ALLIS CHALMERS was good to me at time in life when nothing else was very good. We are the proud owners of a 1953 WD and three B-1 garden tractors. |
Posted By: m16ty
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 8:37pm
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My Granddad had a AC dealership in the '60s and '70s. I grew up at the dealership and AC was all we ever farmed with. It's just all I've ever known. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 11:33pm
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Great stories! My dad bought a 1939 B when I was a couple years old, about 1950. It was as basic a tractor as you could get, no electrics or PTO but he used it on our little 8 acre farm to grow potatoes, plow and till the garden and drag firewood trees from the woods. He sold it to his cousin when we moved from Ohio to Colorado in 1956. His cousin's son still owns and uses it to grow potatoes and onions for a Farmers Market in Cleveland. Haven't been able to talk him out of it - yet. When we bought a place out of town here in CO, I found a "C" for sale in the paper. It had a two way plow, mid mount blade and rear field cultivator and mid mount cycle bar mower along with an old steel wheel IHC dump rake. I got to drive it home, about 7 miles, on a cold March day. We did quite a bit of custom garden plowing and weed mowing for several years. I wanted a bigger tractor for my big rented farming operation (15 acres) and bought a 1939 Case DC (which I still own, after selling it once, another story). When I was 17 I bought a CA from the JD dealer and sold the C shortly afterword, still regret that. For a while I was a Ford guy (3000's and 4000's) as I was working for the Ford tractor dealer and made money importing used Fords from England, fix them up, use them for a while and sell and get a couple more. Also have had IHC's, a couple Zetors and Cases but pretty much just collect (and use) AC's. I think I have 15 with 4 parts tractors, everything from a B10 to a 7580 plus a forklift and 545 loader. Like others have said, it's in my blood!
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: j.w.freck
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 10:22am
| first one i drove was a 1938 wc.started out pulling a hay wagon and hay loader.ended up with 4 wd-45,s on the farm in indiana.the main atvantage of the 45,s were the ease of driving into the front mounted cultivators and the rest of the snap coupler implements.the power shift rear wheels and the live power of the time.hand clutch worked well on the baler and the all crop 66 combine.simplicity and dependability along with ease of maintenance.was a real plus.i still have the wd-45 gas here in texas that i drove home from the dealer when i was a junior in high school in 1957.my brother was killed 6 years ago and i was fortunate enough to buy thr tractor.i now have 9 wd-45s,5 gas and 4 diesel.recently went to johnson city texas to retrieve a all crop 90 peanut special combine.made the trip with joe gronskey (hope i spelled that right) out of wisconsin and jim asbenshade out of oklahoma.2 very down to earth and wonderful people.you also get to meed other fine people around the tractor clubs and pulls...thats why i like a c.plus the fact they made us a good living on the farm..... |
Posted By: Harvey/pa
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 11:06am
| The first toy I remember was a red plastic "Auburn" tractor that looked like a WD. My Grandfather had A WD & a WC on the farm. After Grandfather died they painted up everything for Public Sale on April 21, 1962. My Uncle painted my plastic toy tractor PO & made the rims silver. I still have it, minus the man's head & the tractors steering column, It has its own spot in the toy tractor show case. I just never considered any other tractors even tho I learned to farm on my other Uncle's Farmalls...Harvey |
Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 12:04pm
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I grew up on a Ford farm, but one year, the Massey Clipper we had was just done. I had buckwheat to harvest, so I had to do something. I had to go to McClures to get some parts for the Ford tractor, and i saw an old orange combine in the edge of the woods. I looked at it, and it was in WAY better shape than the Massey, so I asked about it at the office. $25 later, I owned an AllCrop 60 bagger..... The rest is history ------------- Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. |
Posted By: D17JIM
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 12:35pm
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Dad had a square back WC, then a roundback WC, WD, 3 WD 45's, D17 IV, 180 which was his first diesel, 190 XT, 2-200's,2 more D17 IV's, 7000,7020,8010,8030,8050,8070 and All crop 60,66,90, Gleaner E,F, 2 F2's, M, M2, 2M3's Several of the later models were my brother's who still farms the home place and several 100 acres more. My brother still has the 80 series tractors, 3 D17's and 1-200 and 2-M3's and M2. Always been AC's. Most of these are gone. I have driven every thing listed but the WC's and the 66 and 60. So what else would I be interested in ? Dad is 91 and mowed this year with 8030 and 12' batwing. Last spring and this fall is the first time he did not work ground with the 8070 or harvest with one of the M3's.
A friend of his told me they remember him putting a pair of mules on the front of his Sq. back WC and 60 combine and harvesting beans when it was too wet to get through with just the tractor. He said several neighbors stopped to watch him drive both at the same time !! I go see him almost every Friday night and wish I had recorded all his farming stories.
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Posted By: Clay T. Souerdike
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 12:39pm
| I never cared for tractors but then I was in a combine harvesting our field on time and I got hooked all our neibghors farm with different types of equipment but they use there allises the most and then I met josh day and I got realy hooked to allises and other brands but allis the most. |
Posted By: ACFarmer
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 3:08pm
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Familys been an allis dealer since the late 50's and we farm with all orange so there wasent really another option in my eyes! Wouldnt have it any other way. ------------- Making a living farming with and working on Allis Equipment |
Posted By: bdallman
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 3:04pm
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Thanks for all the stories and responses. This forum has a great Community of members and should make anybody elses tractor forums jealous.
There will always be a place in agriculture for Allis Chalmers!! AC people are about as honest and loyal as they come and I am proud to be one of them!!! ------------- 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: MI8050
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 4:01pm
| First tractor I drove was neighbors D17, he had all AC's. We had a very strong dealer presence in our area and lots of orange tractors in our neighborhood. When I got in a position to do it, I bought my 8050, it's a well engineered big power versatile tractor. I like all brands but have a very strong fondness as well as a respect for this once great manufacturing giant. |
Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 4:03pm
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My grandfather bought a farm in 1984 he had a few tractors like an 8N which they hated because the farm was hills and they notoriously have no brakes lol....he finally bought a D15D and had it until he sold the farm. We also had a 4550 Ford Backhoe and an HD4 dozer....I can remember sitting on dad, or paps lap and driving all of them. That dozer was super easy to run. Dad speaks very highly of it too.
------------- Central PA Allis Express 1934 WC254 1945 WF 1945 WC135755 1951 WD68085 1953 WD45-150217 1957 WD45D-230744D B110 |
Posted By: Blake_AllisMan
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 7:18pm
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I think it all start for me when I was around five years old. I would ride with dad out in the field with our Allis tractors and I think i just got hooked from there. I always enjoyed riding in our orange tractors and as I got older I was able to buy my own. I am now a very proud owner of my grandfathers Allis Chalmers C fully restored and an Allis Chalmers IB that was also his. I take great pride in the Allis name because that is all my grandparents and father has farmed with! Orange just must run through the veins lol Blake ------------- 1941 C 1952 IB 1947 C 1955 WD45 SFW 1956 WD45 Diesel 1977 5020 4WD Serial Number 1 |
Posted By: jb from md
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 7:58pm
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My great grandfather had a sheppard diesel and a f12 sold the diesel and bought a wd from Mr bill longs dads delership then sold the f12 and bought a wd45 from Fulton in churchville md. my grand dad bought them and moved to keymar md then bought a d17 with loader from fogle in new midway md. then a d19 from hughes brothers in westminster md. then my dad bought them and sold out years later. then decided to start up again and bought a 185 from gibson in ingleside md a 190 from stups in frederick md he also bought a 160 the rest we bought private except the 8050 came from marshall in pa.theyre all i have ever been around, thats why i like ac ...Jb ------------- 8050 FWA, 190XT, 185, Styled wc, Unstyled wc, (2)C, (2)WD45NF, WD45WF, WD,416h, 716h, 312h, 8070 pedal. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2011 at 9:31pm
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Grandpa traded a team of horses and a worn ouy Whippet car for a WC on steel. Dad said you couldn't believe the amount of ground you could work in a day compared to horses. You also parked the tractor and walked in for dinner ,then carried 2 5gal cans of gas back out to the field to finish the day.(could be a mile one way if west of the "tracks") Anyway,dad and one brother were all that farmed in the following years and both were AC all the way.....and now it's me and my cousin. Allis & Gleaner!!! Dad was the "area" mechanic(main income)and worked on anything with an engine.Lots of AC's and Farmalls went through the shop from '50 to '80. Wasn't hard even as a kid to notice the AC's were a better tractor. Thanks to gandpa for getting things started off right.
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Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2011 at 7:26pm
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Just seemed like they were very common on small farms in our area in the sixties. Mostly WDs and a few D series. When I was young the main tractors on our farm were AC so I just always wanted to collect some like I remembered. I drove lot of brands over the years but was always fond of the old Allis models. I of course eventually had to have a D14 like I learned to drive at age 1...lol  ------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |