We Found My Uncle David's Old 200!!!
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Topic: We Found My Uncle David's Old 200!!!
Posted By: Oldoug
Subject: We Found My Uncle David's Old 200!!!
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 9:45am
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My cousin's had stumbled on to their dad's old 200 about fifteen years ago when a couple of them had just been driving around. It was sold on my Uncle David's farm sale in 1989 and ended up about forty five miles away, the man that purchased it on the farm sale still has it. Yesterday I had some time to kill in the afternoon and made some calls and my cousin Mark and my Uncle David rode with me to go see it. Neither one of them had a name or address of the guy who owns it, but both new almost exactly which direction to turn to get to the guys house. The last time they had seen it it was still running and in use, the guy was not interested in selling it then and last night he had no hesitation answering that it was still not for sale. He said it had been parked last fall but appeared to be sitting longer than that. It appears to have been run pretty hard the last twenty years and is just gonna go further down hill from here. On our way home my uncle just laughed as he said that the guy would call him if he decided to sell it yet he never took down his name or number...lol.         It was pretty neat to see this old 200 again last night, it was the first time I had seen it since 1989, I was thirteen years old then. My cousin Paul and I used to compare our Dad's 200's when we would be playing in them at each other's place. David's 200 was a 1974, and my Dad's is a earlier 200 a 1972 so it has the racing strips, different power director lever, steering wheel, sometimes the aurguments got pretty heated. It was also fun to listen to my Uncle point out things that identified this 200 as his, like the left center cast hub being cracked, the homemade sun visor, the extra lights added on, etc.
My Uncle David purchased this tractor new in the fall on 1975 from Hansen Imp. in Coleridge, Nebraska. It was the last tractor he ever purchased new.
 Being delivered in 1975.
 Pulling out the snowplow in Winter of 1976.
 Bow Valley, Nebraska tractor pull Summer of 1977.
 Cutting silage early Fall of 1983.
 My cousin Joe driving the 200 just prior to going in the sale line up April of 1989.
June of 2010.
Just wanted to share. Thanks.
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 9:53am
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That's quite a story, Oldoug. I sure hope that your uncle's 200 comes home some day. ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: Jacob (WI,ND)
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 10:00am
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Yes, hopefully some day it can come home. You have won half the battle, at least you KNOW where it is. I know there are many guys here that would love to just know where there family tractors ended up. I'd suggest just keeping in touch with them once a year or whatever, and next time leaving contact info for the family, "just in case" LOL! Good luck! ------------- Jacob Swanson 1920 6-12; 1925,1926 20-35 longfenders; 1925,1926 15-25's; 1927,1929 20-35 shortfenders; C; B's; IB; WC's; WD; WD45 |
Posted By: Leon B MO
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 10:05am
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Thanks for posting, the before and after sure makes you wonder why people don't take better care of their stuff.
Leon B MO ------------- Uncle always said "Fill the back of the shovel and the front will take care of itself". |
Posted By: DarrylinWA
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 10:08am
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Great story story. Like people have said, you do know where it is at. Hope someday you can get this back. Great photos of when it was new and usuing it back then.
Thanks for sharing, that was great !!!
Take care, Darryl ------------- B 10 Custom. Serial # 1001 D21, First D21 built 69 #4498 and Last D 21 Built #4609. 1946 MM UTU. And 2000, 2005 Pete's. AC custom Hauling. |
Posted By: omahagreg
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 11:11am
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Neat history! It does look well used by now...! ------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |
Posted By: morton(pa)
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 1:53pm
| Just remember, you'll be able to get it at HIS farm sale in a couple of years! LOL |
Posted By: BLee Mn
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 2:10pm
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neat pics and story lines Matt. I always thought Allis should of added a sunvisor to that style of cab ------------- Cowboy UP |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 5:55pm
Little inspiration, you never know;
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Posted By: Hurst
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 6:48pm
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You could always post the guy's number up here and a lot of us could probably eventually sway his opinion? :) lol Hurst ------------- 1979 Allis Chalmers 7000 5800 Hours |
Posted By: AMB(wcIL)
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 8:33pm
| That is so cool Matt, I hope you guys will be able to keep an eye on it more often, and get her back home real soon. We had a 1974 200 when I was growing up it was the tractor I learned to drive on, like everything it got traded for a 7020. So a couple years a go I found a similer 1975 200 and bought it. Boy it sure brings back memory's! Andy |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 8:37pm
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That thing belongs with you. You appreciate it way more than it's current owner does. I'm in the same situation trying to track down my uncles D17 III, I want it so bad I have dreams about it. ------------- '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 |
Posted By: bigallis1
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2010 at 6:45am
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Nice story. That tractor really belongs back in your family. Don't give up on it. |
Posted By: BigBadAllis
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2010 at 7:59am
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Very cool story and pics. Poor tractor had Slick 50 in it?
Jason
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Posted By: BrianC,Ont
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2010 at 8:46am
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That one pic of the 200 pulling the grader out of the snow looks like the winters we used to have in Ontario back in the 70's. ------------- 35WC on steel, B with belly mower, D17 puller, D15 Series II puller, D15 Series II with loader, 608 Lawn Tractor |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2010 at 8:52am
| Thanks for sharing your story. The poor girl looks like she's been rode hard and put up wet. May come back to you sometime - ya never know. |
Posted By: Kip[NY]
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2010 at 1:45pm
| Nice trip down memory lane. Thanks for sharing with us. Let's hope she returns home some day. |
Posted By: ToddSin NY
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2010 at 1:34pm
| Amazing story! It also amazes me how one man can have a piece of equipment for 30+ years and it still looks new and then another buys it and in 10 years its ready for the scrap yard. Looks like your uncle took excellent care of her!! |
Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2010 at 3:10pm
| I hope you are able to get her back some day. Dad thinks I'm crazy for planning to haul his 190XT down here to KY after he passes on. While he's alive it is his to do with what he wants, however, I have made him well aware that I would not be happy to be put in a situation similar to yours. Good luck. May she return home some day soon. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2010 at 8:46am
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Matt - wonderful story of the history and great that you have all those pictures. I don't have ANY pictures of me or my Dad with our Allis tractors from when I was young. Having gotten back my Dad's Series III D17 recently, I know how sweet that part is. I sure hope it happens with that 200. Mike
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Wes (VA)
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2010 at 12:15am
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It looks like the (rear) tires are the same from 1989 til now?? -Wes |
Posted By: AndrewGubbels
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2010 at 12:43pm
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Looks pretty good Matt, you better keep an eye on that one.
Andrew ------------- Andrew Gubbels Gubbels Restoration |
Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2010 at 12:53pm
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I was actually looking for this post to ask about that sticker on the side of it. The one that says Orange Is Power. Do you guys know where a man could get one of those at? I know atleast a thousand places where that could go. LOL ------------- 1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500 |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2010 at 6:56pm
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I have some of those ORANGE IS POWER decals they are $10 each. Send me a message if interested.
Thanks.
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Posted By: D-allis Iowa
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2010 at 7:33pm
| Matt I hope you get that tractor soon. Dont you have another tractor you are looking for also? Good luck to you. |
Posted By: Gregor
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2010 at 10:03pm
| neat story, Is that lighting in the background at the tractor pull? I greg up in a 200 also. Best was going to the elevator with 3 gravity flow wagons behind totalling about 500 bushels. The elevator guy wanted to put a train whistle on it. Them tractors sure had lugging power. |
Posted By: kev/ont
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2010 at 10:49am
| Just for my own interset sake, in the picture of the tractor being delivered new, the roof cap was painted orange and no visors or vents. In your pictures as the tractor ages the roof is white with a visor over the front. Do you know when or why this might have been changed. |
Posted By: Lester
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2010 at 11:59am
| It makes me sick how some people take care of their tractors and equipment. |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2010 at 2:29pm
| My Uncle just added the visor and painted the roof cause he liked the looks of it that way better. |
Posted By: Brian S(NY)
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2010 at 2:43pm
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My freind Ron just repurchased his Grandfathers case 970 which he has restored and paraded. He put a lot of hours on that tractor himself and was VERY happy to have it back in the family. ------------- God made man.Sam colt made man equal. |