1st tractor = 1952 CA
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Topic: 1st tractor = 1952 CA
Posted By: CAdon
Subject: 1st tractor = 1952 CA
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 8:24pm
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yet another newbie here, and i want to start out saying thanks to ALL for the wealth of information here!!! charlie tucker, bill long, dick L and of course shameless are lucky i'm so far away here in southern california or i'd be making a real pest of myself dropping by with an eager ear. i plan to "earn my keep" here by using the donate button (did) and documenting my stumbling adventures with my first rehab. i got a 1952 CA recently with functional but glitchy hydraulics lifting a gannon "earthcavator". did some preliminary earth moving and scraped a new 600' curving driveway and set the hook deeply. i am alllll orange now!!! first task was to cure the leaks at the ends of the rams. first time dealing with hydraulics of any kind but new seals (and hoses to avoid a future disater) and now i can park the blade within an inch of where i want and keep it there. yahoo! gonna attempt to load one of the few pictures i have on this computer as a test. i have many from all angles elsewhere and will gladly take & post any details per request. but for now... this is a test. hmm. too big. but now i know for future reference. all for now, i'll start new strings for each of the questions i have. again, thanks all!!!  |
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Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 8:31pm
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I'd love to take that veggie cultivator off your hands.....might even have something nice to trade! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 8:35pm
Looks like you got yourself one to learn on. Have fun and ask all you want. You may or may not get the answer but many are more than willing to share with what they have been into. May I suggest you find a pail or somthing to put over that seat spring to set on to drive it around. 
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Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 8:43pm
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uhh... great idea, dick, but i think i'll just put the bucket seat back on... right now i've removed floorboard to inspect newly cleaned up hydraulic system and check for leaks. found one and cured it with an o-ring. now system appears to be tight!
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Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 4:42am
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Welcome to the forum. Dick L already made the seat comment, so guess I'll have to wait for another opening to get in a "welcome dig". LOL God Bless. When your to the point, there are several vendors on this site that can help with needed parts. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 5:54am
| Hi Don where abouts in southern Ca? Welcome aboard. I mow 100 hours a summer with my CA and Woods belly L307. It's an awesome ride! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 7:12am
Welcome aboard!!  Yes, we do love pictures! I might even get some this summer to post. Me and camera's don't get along too well. LOL  ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 7:21am
| Welcome to the forum!! |
Posted By: tractorman
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 7:39am
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I never saw a tractor with a built in elevator before, i wonder how that would work for us fat old guys to ease getting up and on? welcome aboard all allis people are appreciated here. ------------- Play on 38 B 49 WF , working on D14, D15 B10, Bee 12 B110. use 185 and 190 |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 7:42am
| Welcome. I've also got a 1952 CA. Like Cap'n Dana says, it's a great mowing tractor too as I've also got a Woods L-306 on my CA. You'll enjoy it. |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 8:03am
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DON!!!
Get out now! You will get hooked and it all starts with just one tractor and before you know it you will have a barn full on them and then you will build a new barn and them you will find more tractors and a new barn and on and on. So stop; Sale the CA, get some art stuff (maybe some painting stuff) and you will be money ahead. lmao
OK if you have one tractor now then it's to late for you too.
So welcome aboard. ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: donais
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 8:36am
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Wow who would have thought 2 southern cal allis owners even exist. How southern cal are you I'm down here in ramona. |
Posted By: gary ny
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 8:46am
| Welcome Don the CA is one of my favorite tractors I have 2 of them .Have fun with it |
Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 9:24am
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capt dana & donais - i'm west of perris, which is halfway between riverside & san diego. in the "inland empire".
ted - wish you were closer - i teach digital photo (& video & animation).
all - thanks for the welcome, i will try to earn my keep here with info about my first orange rehab adventure (definitely not gonna be my last, i can tell already!). may help some other newbie to laugh at my mistakes...
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Posted By: donais
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 2:56pm
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Cool I have a cousin in perris and my sister lives in murrieta |
Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 3:10pm
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donais -
sounds like we gotta get you over some time to swap notes. maybe this summer?
(i teach high school.) i'll even offer a guest drive on the CA - no one else (including joyce) even gets to touch it. ramona as in the ramona pageant? east of hemet, i think?
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Posted By: donais
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2012 at 10:45pm
| No south in san Diego. My nephew is the quarterback for vista murrieta so I get to go up there every Friday during football season. That would be cool to come up and check out the collection. It could kinda be one of those goto's I hear about |
Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2012 at 8:42am
| uh... my "collection" = 1 CA (so far). btw i teach at rival temecula valley hs. |
Posted By: donais
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2012 at 9:24am
| Well my collection is 1 also of Ac's but I also have a massey 1547. I thought that was a powerful tractor till i pulled the disc with the d17 didn't even know it was there |