If I was gonna buy another color...

...it would have to be Ford red and grey. I have been looking at this tractor for a while, and it just really looks like a sharp machine.

Must be something about the WF with the high clearance. I just like the shape of the tinwork and how it all comes together. Anybody else a fan? Sorry to get off color.

I didn't do it! It was a short, fat, tall, skinny guy that looked like me!

I really like the narrow front version, they look cool and different from the usual low profile wfe Fords.

They didnt have the slop-o-shift on that series did they? Thats a sharp tractor.

Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110

My other colors are Case tan and orange and the other is Fordson blue. anything but JD green and IH red!

BennyLumpkin wrote:

They didnt have the slop-o-shift on that series did they? Thats a sharp tractor.

Is that something you know about or just a quote that sounds good to say every time you see a ford? If I remember correctly that saying was made up by the manufactures that didn't have any way to get the use of the patents for the closest thing to a automatic transmission on a tractor back in those days. I believe there's still a lot of those tractors pulling thier load in the fields today.

That is a sharp tractor, I would'nt mind having one in the barn.

If you do a little reading into the history of Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson you will find they were very good friends and shared each other's ideas on building tractors.

Nothing was stolen.

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If i was gonna buy a different color tractor it would have to be an Oliver i have grown up around them and they always outperformed the deeres and IHs

Jeff maybe it's Ford's version of history you are speaking of? Ferguson had a different view and I'll leave it at that.

1957 WD45 dad's first AC

1968 one-seventy

1956 F40 Ferguson

Stan did you know that Harry was copying the fordson tractor with his lift on it before he and Ford got together? And here's a little more :

"With the benefit of the most up to date developments in automotive engineering, the Ford design team, along with Ferguson's design team, created the real forerunner of the modern tractor- Ford Ferguson 9N. To speed production use of standard components was encouraged, and apart from the Ferguson Hydraulic System the tractor showed its Ford parentage in the use of an engine which was half a Mercury VS, and transmission and other components common with other contemporary Ford products. The tractor was very much in line with contemporary Ford styling. The engine was machined on the same line as the VS units, an extra shift being put on to cope with the extra production. The hydraulic linkage was pure Ferguson, but the incorporation of a number of almost standard automotive components also used on the Ford cars and trucks speeded development. The beam type front axle was the brainchild of the Ferguson design team ." From Yesterdays Tractor

So I think they Both stole from each Other and both made lots of tractors after they Parted.

Edited by n5sgo - 05 Nov 2011 at 3:20pm

I'd love to have a 1206 IH.... But I like my olivers too

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n5sgo wrote:

BennyLumpkin wrote:

They didnt have the slop-o-shift on that series did they? Thats a sharp tractor.

Is that something you know about or just a quote that sounds good to say every time you see a ford? If I remember correctly that saying was made up by the manufactures that didn't have any way to get the use of the patents for the closest thing to a automatic transmission on a tractor back in those days. I believe there's still a lot of those tractors pulling thier load in the fields today.

That is a sharp tractor, I would'nt mind having one in the barn.

No it isnt something that sounds good...I didnt like how they worked. Personal opinion. They were a sharp tractor and had alot of good options....thought of picking one up for the wife to run around at shows on because they were small and fairly easy to drive.

Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110

BennyLumpkin wrote:

[QUOTE=n5sgo][QUOTE=BennyLumpkin]No it isnt something that sounds good...I didnt like how they worked. Personal opinion. They were a sharp tractor and had alot of good options....thought of picking one up for the wife to run around at shows on because they were small and fairly easy to drive.

I don't know about driving a Commander on the show grounds, might be hard to get around the corners with all those people. You must have some really big stuff. My Mom never liked driving it because it was to much tractor for her. She liked the smaller ones like the Allis.

Yea I know that a lot of farmers that didn't take care of thier equipment had problems with the Select-o-Shift. And of course there were probably a few problem tractors out there that had factory flaws.

Edited by n5sgo - 06 Nov 2011 at 8:13am

We have my dad's Oliver 550 gas and we purchased an Oliver Super 55 diesel this summer to restore.

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

B26240, you are correct. I simply turned 90 degrees to the right and snapped the pic straight from the wall. Looking forward to getting my 2012 from the guys at Anderson Auto parts soon. There was also a WD-45D in there, but I don't remember what month. My wife tore the pics of the JD-GP and the JD-BO out to put up and annoy me. I think she just likes the green ones 'cause I don't. ; )

Aside from that, there is a NF standard clearance over in SC that I have looked over a couple of times. Gentleman still uses it. Told him to let me know if he ever decides to part with it.

Edited by DREAM - 06 Nov 2011 at 6:30pm

I didn't do it! It was a short, fat, tall, skinny guy that looked like me!

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