How long have you owned your tractor?
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Topic: How long have you owned your tractor?
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Subject: How long have you owned your tractor?
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 7:43pm
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How long have you owned your tractor? I bought a 1964 190 with 4-16 9000 plow for $4500 in 1973. I also drove home from the dealership a new D15 that my dad bought new in 1962 and i still have it. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |
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Posted By: Boss Man
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 8:25pm
 My grandfather bought my 47 B in 1948 from Kuehne Implement.
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Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 8:35pm
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Grandpa bought a 1934 UC that's still on the farm ------------- 8070FWA,7080 BlackBelly, 7045,2 200s,D19,D17,G, WD,45,UC,7 AC mowers and lots more! "IT TAKES 3 JD's TO OUT DO AN ALLIS, 2 TO MATCH IT IN THE FIELD AND 1 FOR PARTS!" |
Posted By: Jk chalmers
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 8:43pm
| Let’s see the 15 you still have |
Posted By: DSeries4
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 8:57pm
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My grandfather bought a 1958 D14 in 1960. It is now in my possession. Also have his 1977 175 that he bought in 1978. ------------- '49 G, '54 WD45, '55 CA, '56 WD45D, '57 WD45, '58 D14, '59 D14, '60 D14, '61 D15D, '66 D15II, '66 D21II, '67 D17IV, '67 D17IVD, '67 190XTD, '73 620, '76 185, '77 175, '84 8030, '85 6080 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 8:59pm
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Troy, my first D-14, I bought with 3 furrow plow and rear blade in 2000 for $500. yeesh that was 20 years ago... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 9:04pm
| .....when your having fun Jay |
Posted By: McAllis
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 9:27pm
| Bought my 53' WD at my grandfather's estate sell in 99'. He purchased it at an auction my dad had in 68' to downsize. My dad bought it as the second owner in 59'. |
Posted By: allis g
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 12:01am
| I have a 48 B that my grandfather sold new. Returned to me via the implement company by my cousins son. Thank you Jeremy |
Posted By: GeneD14
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 12:13am
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I still have the D17 Series IV that my uncle bought new in 1967. |
Posted By: garden_guy
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 12:29am
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Oh my... I think I got my first WD around 1994 or so? Maybe as late as 1996... I was pretty young. My second one I got in 2012. |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 4:45am
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1950 WD Father bought new in 1950 with 2 row corn planter 1959 D17 Father bought new in 1959 with 14" 3 bottom plow. 1939 B bought in 1990 1938 B bought in 1988
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Posted By: Lon(MN)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 7:50am
| I bought my dad's WD in 1992. He bought it new in March of 1950. |
Posted By: automaticdave
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 7:57am
| I bought my first 8010 30 years ago next month with 3400 hrs and it has just shy of 8000 on it now ! Dave |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 8:14am
| I bought my CA in 1987 at a farm sale. All my other tractors I inherited from family. |
Posted By: 1939Dodge
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 8:59am
| our relative had a 1939 B that I ran as a kid 50 years ago. He gave it away when he moved west in 1980. So I bought mine in 2015. |
Posted By: MotorCityBear
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 9:06am
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I guess I got my first tractor, a 1953 B in late 2012. Great tractor! ------------- Rob 1953 AC B Kubota L3901 Blairsville, GA |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 9:27am
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I was lucky enough to inherit a 1949 WD that my Dad bought new, and a 1951 WD that my Grandfather bought new. Dad bought his first because grandad wasn't convinced that tractors were better than horses. I guess the '49 changed his mind. They were both purchased from my other Grandfathers dealership which makes them extra special for me. ------------- '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: DennisA (IL)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 9:50am
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The first tractor was purchased in 1938 by my great-grandfather. It is a 1938 styled "WC", I bought it in 1997. The second tractor was purchased by my wife's great uncle. It's a 1952 "CA" which I bought in 1998. The third tractor I purchased for my wife in 2003, it's a 1948 "G". The fourth was a 1965 "D-15" which I purchased in 2012. The fifth was a 1958 "D-14" which was purchased in 2015. The sixth was a 1948 "WD" which was purchased in 2016. The seventh was a 1957 "WD-45" which was purchased in 2016. The eighth was a 1966 "D-15" which was purchased in 2017. The ninth was a 1951 "WD" which was purchased in 2018. The tenth was a 1949 "C" which was purchased in 2020. I forgot the HD5G which was purchased in 2016 ------------- Thanks & God Bless Dennis |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:01am
| Only AC I bought, a 180D in 2008 and the 7G in 2012. |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:16am
| i took possesion of the wd and wd45 that i grew up on that grandpa bought new 2002 |
Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:25am
| We have the 52 CA that grandpa bought new. Also have a series IV D17 dad bought around 85 and 8050 bought around 93. All 3 have been rebuilt and painted. |
Posted By: Ed&Sherry
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:46am
| dad bought a 1951 WD in 51 and its on the farm |
Posted By: BigGuy1000
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 11:28am
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I stiil have and use often a 1951 WD and I was there when the tractor was unloaded from the Morrison Implement Company truck! Bought by my father and grandfather, and then first used that night to drag 5 dead cows out of the alfalfa field, where they had died of bloat! |
Posted By: Grayray
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 11:43am
| My grandfather bought our WD new in November of 49. Still have it and the original bill of sale. |
Posted By: Jk chalmers
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 11:45am
| This thread w the pics of the tractors would be perfect! lol |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 1:23pm
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Bought this one at the original owner's estate sale, picture tells the rest.  ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: Leadoff
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 2:00pm
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My brothers have our fathers D17 and 4 furrow plow purchased new from the local AC Dealer in 1957. The tractor is now retired on the seventh generation family farm in Eastern Ontario. I own our 185, purchased new in 1975, and it is retired as well, at our cottage, a few miles away from the farm. Both provided outstanding service to the farm and will remain part of the family. Two of the best, of the many great models produced by Allis Chalmers ------------- 1963 D17D Series III. 1965 D15 Series II. 1965 D17 Series IV. 1975 185. 1978 716H. 1979 716H. 1965 780 Harvester/1R&DC. 1957 Model 73 SC 4 Furrow Plow |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 3:56pm
 I found a receipt where Dad got this WD NF in 1962. Since then it got worked over to what you see here. Dad passed in 89 but I got to hang onto it and it's in need of another going over. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 4:06pm
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Dad bought the 1952 WD I have in the very late 1960's or early 1970's prior to 1973. He has the bill of sale somewhere in his tax papers. He has all his tax papers and receipts going back to when he first started farming. He gave the WD to me in the middle 1980's. It was stuck from setting and he had robbed the distributor off it. I got it running sometime in the late 80's. First tractor I bought on my own I bought in early Spring 1987 just before I graduated from high school.... a 1961 D19 gas. It is still in my shed. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 4:20pm
| Dad rented his brothers farm in 1955. Along with the 320 acres he and Mom owned, he bought a new 45. He put me on the seat that summer. I passed it on to my son last year. |
Posted By: ToddnwIl
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 4:32pm
| We are luck enough to have 5 allis tractor bought new still in my family. A wd. Wd45. D19. 7060 and an agco allis 6690. |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 4:44pm
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Grandpa bought my dad a new "C" to start farming with. Today it sits at the ready with a Woods 5' mower. In the day, he used it for row crop cultivating. My dad bought his 8070's new that I still use. We still have a WD45 with a Gleaner E engine. It has been a loader tractor for decades. The 1938 UC is a tractor that dad bought for me. But maybe the praide of the farm is a 1936 WC with 2r cult and side mower. We have the original bill of sale. It has a step down trans. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: rw
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 7:25pm
| is that a 6 cylinder gas engine replacing a wd45 diesel engine? |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 8:07pm
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RW, if you're asking about our WD45 engine swap? 4 cylinder gasers. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 8:49pm
the way I understood it,he has a WD he reworked to end up with a 6cyl gas....basically using diesel componets
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rw wrote:Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 9:16pm
| Yes, it is a 6cyl gas motor in the WD. I remember he had gotten a WD45 diesel and used all the components for the swap. I don't know why he chose not to fix the diesel. He got the gas motor from his BIL who owned the White dealership in southern Missouri. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 9:40pm
| A lot of the old 45D's got 4cyl gas transplants after the diesel crapped. Too much $ to fix em plus they weren't reliable the way they got used. Guys were not into warming up and cooling off engines. |
Posted By: badjeep
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 6:12am
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I still have my 48 WD that my grandfather bought new, I also have the 46 9N that he bought new when he got back from Japan after the war, also have a TC 21-32 that my great grandfather bought new in 1930 ------------- In the shed- 7020,7060, L2 X (2), CII, WD X (2), 200, 210, 611H, 440, Fiat Allis 345B |
Posted By: rw
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 6:23am
| I think the conversion looks nice.The swap to gas is fascinating to me. I understand the difficulty getting rare diesel parts their reliability issues and making it cost effective and keeping it going. A WD45 diesel is a rare bird in our area and I had not seen or heard of one being converted. At first glance I was not thinking about six cylinders potentially having similar power and cid to the four cylinder cid. I was thinking about the engine being similar to D19 262cid engine or even a six cylinder version of the 226. Kinda like the 6060 with a 7000 engine. |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 9:40am
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My Dad bought this WD 45 new in 1954. He moved it to three farms we rented and finally to the one he owned but never left the county until I moved it across the state. As I've stated before, I have more $$ in the tires and rear wheels than he paid for it new and he got a planter, cultivator disc and plow, none of which are still around.  ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: orangereborn
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 10:58am
July 13, 1947 My Dad's new "C..." I still have it. Original paint and right front tire...(occupied by his brother's girlfriend and brother) If it ever sat out side over night it was because it was not home for the night....Dale
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 1:37pm
| D 19 was my first tractor. Had it about 30 years now I guess. Darrel |
Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 2:42pm
| My dad bought a WD45 new in 1954. I got it from him in 2001 and hope to have it for a long time. |
Posted By: MDWilliams338
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 8:41pm
Not mine but dads...belonged to his grandfather this ‘42 B (along with my daughters cheesy grin because she’s driving the WD to her FFA banquet that day) that he bought in ‘45.Now if we could just buy back my grandfather’s CA he bought new in ‘53 everything would be right as rain. ------------- ‘42B,’45B,’48C,’51CA,’52CA,’69170,1935WC,1936WC,WD,WD Highcrop,WD45,WF,D10/14/15/17/19 It isn’t how you die.It’s what you live for.-Daniel Boone |