Not Allis but COOL.
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Topic: Not Allis but COOL.
Posted By: Macon Rounds
Subject: Not Allis but COOL.
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 8:23am
Not Allis but Look what followed me home....
Been wanting one of these since i was a kid....

------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 8:28am
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Cloaked Klingon warship. Beautiful!
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Posted By: Macon Rounds
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 10:20am
Any guesses as to what it is ???
------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate
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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 10:24am
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Monkey Wards or Graham Bradley.
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Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 12:09pm
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 12:58pm
COOP
------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails
1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF.
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 1:12pm
im with DR... Monkey Wards.
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted By: Macon Rounds
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 3:15pm
Same as Wards but different badge...
------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate
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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 3:24pm
Posted By: Macon Rounds
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 3:38pm
They came under several different Badges. Wards CO-OP Simpson
And Still taking ???? On this one.
------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate
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Posted By: Joe Goodwill
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 4:10pm
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 4:54pm
Custom
------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY
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Posted By: Macon Rounds
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 5:40pm
This one is a Lehr Big Boy.....
It came with a few extras.
A complete belt pulley assembly with control rods and leavers and a unique umbrella fender mount bracket...
------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 6:11pm
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https://www.gasenginemagazine.com/tractors/the-lehr-big-boy/%20" rel="nofollow - https://www.gasenginemagazine.com/tractors/the-lehr-big-boy/
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------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 6:15pm
So WHO made the tractors ( what factory) annd sold under several names ??
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted By: Macon Rounds
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 7:10pm
From my understanding these tractors were made mostly from 2nd world war surplus medium duty truck parts... Chrysler engines, transmission,transfer case, rear ends and other odds and ends....
They were sold thru many agricultural tractor supply type CO-OP's in the late 40's and early 50's.... And Badged accordingly.
I understand they made several models all looked similar but i belive most of the changes were made due to availability of surplus war parts...
Interesting to learn more about these little tractors.
And they make great pullers...
------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate
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Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 7:17pm
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They were also built here in Edmonton, Alberta and were marketed by the Rock Oil Company. They called theirs the "Rokol". There are a few around still, mostly restored or in museums.
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Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 8:28pm
Sweet!  
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Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2026 at 9:22pm
That’s sweet!! And Chrysler engines to boot!! Yeah I’m a Mopar man. Nice find
------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD
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Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2026 at 11:15am
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Cool! Great info. So was that a Chrysler industrial 6 cylinder flathead engine?
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2026 at 1:07pm
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the 218 and 230 flat head 6 cyl engines were very common in the (military) TRUCKS at that time..
---- According to information we have gathered, including a letter written in 1978 by an official of Dunham Lehr, Inc., the original design and engineering was brought into existence by the Indiana Farm Bureau Coop under the ‘Custom’ name tag. However, World War II stopped all plans for production. Later, Lehr acquired the plans, etc. and marketed roughly 300 units in 1948 and 1949 under the Lehr’s Big Boy name. After Lehr abandoned the project, it was picked up by someone (unknown to us) who manufactured approximately 200 units and marketed them by selling the product to Montgomery Ward. The Lehr name was dropped and these units were sold under Ward’s name. Color changed from bright red to blue. In an ad, run January 22, 1949, Lehr claims a big Chrysler engine, 2 ton Dodge truck axle, five speeds forwardone reverse & 30 MPH road speed (this was a five speed truck transmission with a reduction box between trans. &. rear axle), hydraulic brakes, row crop or wide front end. Fenders, starter and lights were standard equipment, extra equipment was availableP.T.O., etc. I would assume the fluid drive would have been extra equipment as Lehr claimed to be the first fluid drive tractor marketed. Thirty-four HP was claimed, in the 1949 advertisement. This tractor registered 35 HP on a belt driven dynomometer in 1983
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted By: Macon Rounds
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2026 at 1:44pm
Excellent information...
THANKS
Learning about the Evolution of these old tractors is fascinating...
------------- The Allis "D" Series Tractors, Gravely Walk behind Tractors, Cowboy Action Shooting !!!!!!! And Checkmate
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