Why do you like AC???

bdallman wrote: 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!!!

You gotta be kidding.... it's the white steering wheels.

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

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.

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!

 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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!!!