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Dale 
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Location: Ontario
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 Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 7:00pm |
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My mom had 2 spinster aunts that farmed. They had a hired man (but no romantic involvement). They both worked hard and prospered. My aunt Eva apparently never slept off the farm for the first 65 years of her life. They both lived well into their 90's. Mixed farm, milking Herefords for cream. They bought a new AC CA and as a kid (over 50 years ago) I sometimes got to pull the hay wagon with it (what a thrill for a city kid). Eventually I started to farm and got into JD's (I can remember getting my 2-cylinder club newsletter on what looked like Gestetnered paper that's how long ago)-Prices for JDs started to go nuts and I stopped buying (still have a bunch). Memories of the old CA started me thinking about ACs (and the prices were better). Did some reading and realised they were perhaps the best engineered tractor of their time. I like the 200 series but have a motley assortment of other AC orange and yellow. I really like the feeling that AC types are not maybe arrogant like addicts from some other colours and I sure like the raw guts and power of my 200 series. I think I'll stay true to AC (although I like some of the M-M stuff out there). Maybe someday I might find that old family CA. As an aside -as an Ont Canada AC addict I envy the assortment and quantity of product you have in the US to buy,sell and collect.
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Hudsonator
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Location: Tennessee
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Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 7:21pm |
 AllisFreak MN wrote:
Is that a New Idea picker? Those are good machines. |
Yep, its a New Idea 309 snapper. It certainly has been a good machine, no complaints.
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There isn't much a WC can't do.
WD's just do it better.
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AllisFreak MN
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Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 8:44pm |
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Dale, I like your comment about A-C people not being arrogant like some of the the addicts of other colors (as in red and green). I think there is a lot of truth in that statement. (I hope that didn't just make me sound arrogant, LOL!)
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'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2
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codey lowe
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Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 8:57pm |
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i bought a AC C on an old farm sale when i was 14yrs old, been buying ever since
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if it dont blow black smoke, then it must be broke
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Harvey/pa
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Location: York Co. Pa.
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Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 9:10pm |
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My first toy tractor was a red plastic Auburn, that looked just like a WD. My uncle painted it PO#1 when they were getting my grandfathers machinery ready for Public Sale, WD & WC tractors, plows & disc. I learned to farm at my other Uncles Farm, all IHC and as a boy had all JD toys ( Dealer close by) but that plastic WD was my favorite and my first tractor was a WD. That plastic WD has a special spot in my showcase now. Told my wife to bury me on my 175 cause I haven't found a hole I could not get out of yet, just had to unhook a few times...Harvey
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Ron(WA)
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Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 9:11pm |
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Drove a WD as a boy on the farm, had an opportunity to drive a D17 later, and was really impressed with it. Looked around for a tractor to mow our property with about 10 years ago, and stumbled onto a D15 with a bush hog, and jumped at it, even though the price was up there. Never regretted it, now I have a WD and a B in the stable, and am looking for a Woods belly mower for the B. Have to get the WD restored and some things done on the B and D15. It's always a pleasure working on them.
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 20 Jan 2010 at 10:11pm |
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Grandpa traded a team and boot on a WC before the war.Don't know why AC,just glad that was the direction.Dad marveled at how much ground you could cover in one day.He helped farm with horses prior.Dad died in 2000 and I have his WD he bought new in 49.It's just the "scoop"tractor now.I hobby farm about 100A with my WD45,220 and 8070.
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weiner43
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 7:31am |
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I was almost born on a H Farmall. My Uncle had an Allis C & B and a neighbor had a C and an old unstyled WC, I always liked the little C. My brother had a D17 that he liked very well. I worked for a farmer that had a D19, D14, and a John Deere 70. I dispised that 70, but fell head over heels in love with the D19 & expecially the D14. Today I have a Super C to plow snow with and a CA to play with. I still yearn for a D14 or D17.
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God bless our troops and the United States of America.
Pick your rut well, you may be in it a long time.
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LarryWC In
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 11:29am |
For me, it was my Grandpa Crawley's WD45 that he had in the late 60's that I grew up playing on and riding with him culavating and spreading manuer.
I can't really say what it was about that tractor that attracted me, he also had a real nice Oliver 77 that was his "Big tractor" that he used and it's still in the family.
He sold the WD45 before he died in 1977 and I would LOVE to find that tractor.
That has ended up being a topic of interesting discussion in our family because no one knows for sure who ended up with the WD45!, many neighbors remember Grandpa having it,,but it's like that moment in time has disappeared!
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Andy in Central IA
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 11:36am |
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AC is the brand my father had on his farm in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. Learned to drive on a 1937 flat top WC. We only had WC's when I was home. Dad finally got a WD in the 70's.
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Kip[NY]
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 11:45am |
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Our D14 was “handed down” and the story isn’t as romantic as
many of yours.
We’re not a farm family but my wife’s grandfather did have a
small farm with a very large garden. He
replaced his two horses with a B. My
wife still remembers riding with him on the bench seat. One day in the 70’s when her grandfather rode
the tractor down to the highway to get the mail, a woman missed the curve and
clobbered the B. Luckily he was across
the road at the mailbox. The B was
traded in for a used D14 in very good shape, at Young’s Farm Equipment in Fair
Haven, VT. In later years, the D14 was
really only used to bush-hog the fields.
My wife’s father inherited the D14 (and the farm) when his
dad died and years later, when he himself could no longer get out to mow the
fields I took over the job…and the “job” of partially restoring the D14 with
parts and advice from so many people on line here. Now that he too, has passed away, the tractor’s
in our care, still mowing the fields but also moving snow with a new rear
blade, and chipping brush with a 3-pt. chipper.
“Martha” as we call her, is looking good and working well
and will hopefully be a member of the family for some time to come.
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Kip[NY]
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 11:48am |
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Oops. Sorry about the appearance of the above post. I typed it in Word then pasted it here. At least it's the right color! Kip
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Bill Long
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 12:33pm |
Not hard for me. Pop got an Allis Chalmers Dealership in the middle to late 30's and I became an avid Allis Chalmers fan. With Pop we were lucky to sell Allis Chalmers for the life of the B, the C, the CA, the WD, the WD-45, and the D-14.
Without question selling Allis Chalmers with Pop was the most fun time in my life. I thouroughly enjoyed just about every day.
We stopped selling in 1962 cause they planted too much concrete in Baltimore County. Spent 35 very successful years in Branch Banking but never enjoyed a job as much as with Pop.
I discovered this site in the middle 90's and have been on it ever since. While I do not have room for any tractors  I Cheer for all the forum members who do whatever possible to keep the Allis Chalmers name alive. I have met quite a few of you and look forward to meeting more.
Good Luck!
Bill Long
Picture of me, Fred Wilke and Rick Walten at Coming Home in NY 2005
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Dave/cvny
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 2:38pm |
We had a Oliver 770 for a few years and when the motor set up my father bought a 1650 (1966). I learned how to plow with a Oliver 770 with 3 bottom trailer plows, the next year (72) we bought a 170 diesel w/ 4x16 -2000 monoframe. I thought I had the world by the a$$ ( I was 13)! In '78 we bought a 7000 w/cab (wow)! Sold the farm in '87, moved to town. Now I own 2 WDs, a C and a 200 w/loader! also I collect AC toys, don't know how many, I don't count them just keep buying them!
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AC RAY MO.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 4:38pm |
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sure glad so many people love green tractors has made buying ac alot more afordable my thoughts ac is indestructable and will live on we sure love all ours
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Brad-MN
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 5:48pm |
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I spent many a round in the field sleeping on the tool box of a D17 with my Grandpa. Grandma always said that was the easiest way to get me to take a nap! When we moved off the farm, I was so mad at my father that I didn't talk to him for almost a month. I spent every summer on that farm with my grandparents for ten years after we moved to the cities.
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J-WAG
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 6:20pm |
Well my Grandfather loved allis chalmers. He had a 210 that he traded for an international 1466. The 1466 was nice but it was never as good as the 210! Then he traded a 185 for a International 806 narrow front. Then my grandfather had an Allis Chalmers C that he loved. Then his last tractor was an Allis Chalmers G that we bought at the estate auction in 2007. Unfortunately my grandfather past away in 2005 from cancer. When all the John Deere kids at school ask "why i drive that junk?" I just smile and say, "Its not junk, and i drive it because thats what pap had." :^)
J-WAG
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AllisFreak MN
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 6:39pm |
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It's funny how many people talk about "riding the toolbox". I did that too as a kid, it was the perfect spot for a kid to sit.
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'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2
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JimNEIN
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 7:55pm |
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Dad had a wd45.Traded it for a series 3 d17 in 1963. My uncle had a wd and c which I now own. I got a d14 when i was 16.Dad had sale in 1968 so i sold the 14 on the auction for $700.Wish i had it back.
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Dave A
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 8:02pm |
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My dad bought what was cheap and broken. Most of the time it was a Allis or IH. Then we would make it usable. Just carrying on a family tradition
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
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Anthony
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 8:09pm |
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My grandpa let me drive his WD. I bought it before he died and still have it today. I always got a laugh, he never called a gleaner a gleaner but always refered to them as Baldwins...........
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NCWC
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Posted: 21 Jan 2010 at 8:34pm |
A man gave me a B for cleaning out his basement in 1994 it was in the back corner the furthest awy from the garage door. Block was busted, tires were flat and a tree had fell and mashed the gas tank. I was 8 years old when I got it and when I was 14 it was completly restored. Sold it a few years later when I was in college cause I needed the money. Tracked it down later and found it at our local tractor pull and another young man pulls it every month that we have a pull. Hard to beleive that old tractor could bring so much joy to two young men.
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B,C,CA,RC,WC,Unstyled WC,WD,WD-45,B puller, WC Puller,WD Puller, WD-45 Puller
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Bob D. (La)
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 4:58am |
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Allis, I'm, Allis not Allis hooked Allis on Allis Allis. LOL. First tractor I ever drove was a WC, Really young kid and pulled wagon while Dad loaded hay. Dad put me on a Brockway when I was 4 years old disking ahead of him planting corn. That's the day I learned right from left.LOL. We added a UC, which I was fortunate enough to blow the engine on pulling two wagon loads of beans down the road. Apparently, going down a hill, the speed just became two much. We also had a 2nd WC with a loader, a Farmal f10, and finally a Moline Jet Star. Still think the WC and UC were the best tractors ever made.
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When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!!
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rickwsomd
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 8:41am |
I grew up with Farmalls here in Southern Maryland, with the exception of an All-Crop 60 with bagging platform, but there were quite a few AC's in the area. One of my uncles rented a house on a farm that had a G, B and WD45. The first memory I have of ever riding on a tractor, is with my uncle on that B. I must have been no more than 3 or 4. From that moment on I never forgot those orange tractors and how they looked. I was old enough to ride the All-Crop for a few seasons before it went by the wayside. I wish I still had it now, but when you are young and don't actually own the piece of equipment, it's hard to say don't give it to the junk man.
Although the old Farmalls did the job here on our home place, I always wanted an Allis of my own. Back in the 80's I finally was able to buy an old 41 B and fix it up to mow my lawn. Since then I have picked up a G, WC with Steel Rear, C, CA, and WD45. All I need now is a WD to round out my styled letter series. Most are in various states of disrepair, but they won't be forever.
Bill, it's funny to get on here and see my ugly mug show up out of the blue. I will get some dates to you as soon as I can so that we can make another AC road trip. Here is a picture of my WD45 with the homemade ROPS on it.
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Don M SEIA
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Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 12:13pm |
My Allis connection began with my Grandpa and his brother buying a model U on steel that was coverted to rubber. My folks started an Allis dealership in the fall of 1937 . I don't remem  ber too much as I was only when they sold it in1953, and went back to farming. The picture is of my Dad and me on our G. some have talked about rideing on a tool box ,which I did also, but I also started on the gas tank. We have had WC's aWD, B's C's, aCA, 3 D-17's, 3 190XT's ,a7030, and 7020 power shift, 2 E Gleaners, an M hydro, and an N6. I now have a 1938 B, 1948 WC, the 7020, a dozen AC garden tractors, a 1935 22x38 threshing machine, 1940 allcrop 40, 1958 super 100, a 1966 E Glearner an 17" elevator several plows, and etc. I've been to West Allis, LaPorte, LaCrosse, and Independence ,the Cave, and Batavia, Going is Going Great. Don
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