Personal touches
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Topic: Personal touches
Posted By: Dek Thorne
Subject: Personal touches
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 12:17am
| What are some of the personal touches that your tractors have. |
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 1:42am
| a crome naked lady on the front grills of my 7010 and 180. |
Posted By: KenBWisc
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 8:47am
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Well! That issue is entirerly too personal to be discussed on this forum!
------------- '34 WC #629, '49 G, '49 B, '49 WD, '62 D-19, '38 All Crop 60 and still hunting! |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 8:55am
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Personal touches?? You mean like the time, I bust a knuckle splitting a 7060, and hit my head, then put a dent in the tin with my fist..touches like that? ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 1:54pm
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well, there is a heat hauser bracket by the steering wheel shaft that has been on my WD45 since Dad put it on in the winter of '68 so I could be warm hauling manure. I was in the 8th grade. Dad is gone, the heat hauser is gone but the bracket is still there. I have even painted around it. Just a memory. Thats all this old junk is anyway..... ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: Brian-KS
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 1:59pm
Lets see some pictures of that  ------------- EAT BEEF! |
SHAMELESS wrote:Posted By: Mike Plotner
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 2:01pm
you wouldn't remember where you got those would you? ------------- 2001 Gleaner R42, 1978 7060, 1977 7000, 1966 190 XT, 1966 D-17 Series IV and 1952 WD and more keep my farm running! |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 2:03pm
All playing aside, that is pretty cool. you reminded me of the similar bracket on our D19, it has been there literally forever. I remember when we didn't have cabs on most of our tractors, and dad would take that on and off every year. We just threw that thing away earlier this year, but the bracket will probably stay on forever.
------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 2:17pm
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My Lena has a starter, generator and lights. All things the original owner put I that I "cleaned up" a bit when I restored her. I add a toggle switch to short the mag out in reach of a seated position. I also added a belt pulley shifter so I can turn it off and on from the seat. That came off the parts tractor I bought to help put the 35 back together.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 3:51pm
| My WD-45 has a nice crease in the gas tank from when a tornado hit and a rafter from the shed it was in fell down on top of it. So, I guess it's been personalized. |
Posted By: matador
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 3:52pm
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Our Deere 4520 had a dent caused by my anger, too. That tractor is now in the big field in the sky, but I kept the wooden knob that my father built when the 3 point knob broke off. It was just a wood 2x2, but I pulled it off andd have it in my desk at work. Even my father doesn't know that I kept the knob. That was the only tractor we had until I was 19, so I wanted to keep a piece of it. Our White has brackets for the toolbox off of the 4520, but that's pretty much it. We're not as wild and crazy as Shameless is!
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Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 4:32pm
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5" chrome pipe and grill screen on my D-21, Intercooler on my 220, chrome grab handles on both. The rest only have what was available from the factory as an option. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 4:44pm
The CA has a good sized dent in the gas tank, I left it that way cause. The old barn has swing open doors on the north side. Dad always swung the one to the east and then the other west and pulled the 4x4 from between to lean against the west door to keep it open if a westerly breeze came up. The Monkey wards Hammermill set to the west side right inside the door so he would belt the CA and grind feed about once a week. One day, for some reason, that 4x4 fell over the gas tank of the CA  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Crewchief
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 7:19pm
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The steering arm on our B that's attached to the steering box ,had been bent at sometime,and straightened up,plus a brace welded on.I left it as is (for caracter)when I repainted the tractor. ------------- 1952 B 1950 Ferguson TO-2O |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 7:22pm
| Mike..you gits them at truck stops! |
Posted By: Wdtractorman
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 7:36pm
| Our 64 4000 ford has a bent front bumper and dent in the front of the hood where grandpa pushed a bull up the loading ramp in to the truck with it. 7600 ford got bent front axel where it rolled over a hill hit a tree and broke in half. It was 6 months old at the time it was the same tree that killed grandpa's new 601 ford rolled over the same hill too, it had a 25 jd combine on the back of it. Grandpa traded it to the 4000 |
Posted By: Dandan111
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 8:45pm
| Coat hanger wire holding hyd lines up. |
Posted By: dustinmo
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2015 at 8:55pm
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Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2015 at 6:46am
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I usually like to add a little detail to my Tractors when I restore them. I usually paint the steering boxes rebuilders grey, always use new cap screws and nuts, and usually use Stainless hardware on the sheetmetal with a plastic washer under the head of the bolt so it doesn't chip the paint. When I make the new oil and fuel lines, I usually polish em' up to add a little detail to the engines. My latest WF project has quite a bit of detail to it. The RC is next in line for the big Tractors. I wanna finish up the 620 first though.. ------------- 39'RC, 43'WC, 48'B, 49'G, 50'WF, 65 Big 10, 67'B-110, 75'716H, 2-620's, & a Motorhead wife |
Posted By: Mike Plotner
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2015 at 7:27am
I was at one yesterday, of course I wasn't doing much looking around. just grabbing a mountain dew and taking a leak! ------------- 2001 Gleaner R42, 1978 7060, 1977 7000, 1966 190 XT, 1966 D-17 Series IV and 1952 WD and more keep my farm running! |
Posted By: Crowman17
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2015 at 7:56am
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My CA has a steering knob that my father had put on it close to 40 years ago from the B we had prior to it. Knob is probably close to 50 + years old. My D17 has a really nice heavy duty tool box which I had got from Burgh's salvage yard years ago for $10.00, it's painted yellow it came off of a state maintance tractor. Marc |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2015 at 9:54pm
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Cream wheel centers and silver rims on the front and back of my WD's. Yep, not how they came. I just like it that way. Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: slip knot
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2015 at 11:34pm
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My 8n Ford has a 3030 bullet hole in the rear fender. I left it as reminder to unload before getting on the tractor. Shooting hogs in the hayfield.
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Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2015 at 11:58pm
I bet it is the same one that is still on our WD45. It has been on there as far back as I can remember. Our WD45 was our snow plow tractor on the NY dairy farm. I remember Dad sometime spending all afternoon driving around plowing out neighbors after the snow storms we got there. That heat houser made that possible. Like yours, our heat houser is long gone even though we still have the Meyer plow, the frame for it still hangs off the old WD45, and Dad hasn't been able to plow snow for years. Good memories though. ------------- "My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic" |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 6:23am
Cumberland Farms as small convenience stores all over New England. The previous owner bought this 4020 at their auction when they decided to do the herd buyout, and not produce the milk for there stores anymore. It was a 2000 acre farm, south and west of Boston. I'll leave the decal on there to show the history of the tractor. Tim ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 8:25am
Coat hanger wire holding up the Hyd lines, a BIG dent in one of my
WD45's gas tank (and now thanks to Tuck, I got an idea where it came
from!  ), a van seat instead of iron, a chrome shifter knob (from back in my drag racing days), lots of different dings and dents and extra 90° gas shutoffs for all the tractors (haven't got em all on as yet though).  ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 9:28am
| roll bar looking frame attached to the fenders on my 180, it's 2" exhaust pipe bent and fitted together, it's used to hold 2 rear field lights, 2 front field lights and 2 road warning lights. painted orange, made and given to me for Christmas by my BIL that worked at Midas! looks great! |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 10:04am
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7045 has M&W's and an intercooler. 8070's & 7080 have hi/low beam head lights. K&M step tool boxes. These four also have four remote valves. The WD45's have Char-Lynn power steering. Don't get me started on loaders and rock boxes. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 11:16am
my wd had been repainted po #2 creme color rims and grill and gearshift extensionthat clamped onthe gearshift about half way up that whent out sideways also the allis chalmers hood emblems of a d17 my grandfather did this in 1969 about 1976 ,78 somthime there i welded a washer onthe fender because the work light kept breaking off got in trouble for burning the paint 
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Posted By: Robert Musgrave
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 11:20am
| My Uncle Dean had a CIGAR LIGHTER on one of his tractors; and on the Model "B" someone had hand-lettered across the top of the radiator: POWER +. |