Why Allis Chalmers

Dad bought a 49 WD in 50 and I remember seeing it at the dealer at 3 years old. He bought an old no hydralic JD A at a sale. Ever use a set of JD hand lift cultivators? The WD caught fire when Dad ran the gas tank over and we think it had a loose battery terminal. Lucky they say as the 275 gallon tank next to it was full and didn't explode. I took the WD to VO AG shop at school and replaced all fire damaged parts and and put on some orange paint. It sure wasn't AC orange though and we never put lights and a starter back on it.
Dad bought a beautiful WD 45 at a sale for $1600 while the WD was down. Had wide front and the one owner had kept it waxed and covered in the shed. Then Dad bought 200 acres 19 miles from home and we towed the 45 back and forth for heavier work. Added a JD AR and an unstyled WC from 2 different farm sales on the same day. Loved the mechanical light cultivators on the WC but the steering was worn and you had to be good at guessing what direction she was headed next. The AR was ok too as I could get up and move around on the platform to help stay awake after my late night carousing. The popping helped alot too. Next came a MF 65 diesel with loader and 4 /14s. What a piece of crap it was. Too light and had hydralic issues. And I could not stay awake on that thing. I'd wake up, look back and see I'd disked figure 8's, etc. Time to hook up the Johnny Popper. It soon left and was replaced by a D19 diesel. Hardly ran it as I was drafted about then. Dad retired with a Ford 9700,8700, 2 5000's and a 4000 and the old WD45 which was stolen and are all setting in sheds waiting on him to return. Sadly he won't.
I have owned in this order a JD B, MM Z, Case Vac, 3 Fordson Majors, Oliver 88, Farmall 460, and now 9 AC 5015's I use in property clean up and maintenance. I baby them so they make it to the end for me and I'll be 70 soon.
Sorry post is so long.

love hearing these stories.  I'm surrounded by new kioti and kubota's and 1 ford 2000 that never leaves the shed?, but I'm still running he Allis.  I was sold on allis the minute my but hit the seat on the wd 45.

No, good. We all got to see a pretty picture of a combine even if it isn't a Gleaner.

The "bad , no good" reminds me of Roy Clark and Archie Campbell

So that Case....looks like it was made from 1963-1970. Didn't look to be too well liked....at least from my 4 minutes of research! Hahaha

An older fella I worked with had an Oliver 77 and asked if I could look up the horsepower and such for it.  Went to tractordata.com and printed out the spec's for it.  Then I showed him the specs for the WD 45.   his face turned red and he started complaining.   "how can your WD 45 have more power with a 4 cyl, than my oliver with that big 6 cyc. engine"...He complained about that for months...

 I HAVE A D15 SERIES I FOR SALE $1500

Grandpa went from horses to a used B. Loved it so much he got another used B. Needless to say my dad was partial to Allis Chalmers so when he and mom started their own farm they had a B and a CA with loader. When mom and dad stopped farming the CA went to my uncle where I put many hours raking and hauling hay loads with it. I bought my fist B when I was 14 to use for skidding peeled poplar out of the woods in the fall. Allis Chalmers was/is in the family blood line!

My dad bought a Ford 8N. He then bought an all-crop 60 combine.
Pulling the AC 60 was a little to much for the 8N. So he bought
a WD 45 at an auction in the late 50's. The WD 45 handled the
all crop with no problems. It had plenty of power. Now my son
and I hobby farm the land with an AC 200, a 3 bottom series 80
plow, and 3 all crop 66's combines. 2 of them work and one is
for parts. Looking for a 4 bottom IH 720 plow for the 200.