Put a #17 loader on my WD45
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Topic: Put a #17 loader on my WD45
Posted By: AC WD45
Subject: Put a #17 loader on my WD45
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2024 at 12:56pm
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Did this just to recreate a 30 year old picture. The first photo is me, 30 years ago, grandma standing on the drawbar, grandpa loading the trailer and I can just make out the polebarn being built. So the first photo would have been 1995 about. Grandpa is long gone but Grandma is still alive and well, so this weekend I'm hoping to get her over here. You all know grandpa's old WD45 by now, but I was going through some photos last year and found one I hadn't seen in years. We had an old #17 loader on it back then, by the time I was 10 it was long scrapped. This past new years day I bought a WD that happened to have a #17 loader haphazardly slapped on, so I figured what the hey, I could use a little loader tractor around and I really want to recreate that picture, so I painted it up, cut the bulky ugly bull bar off the front just like we had done, (wouldn't fit right anyway with the draw plate I have on thenfront end and the hand crank shaft I refuse to remove) . and after half a dozen trips to TSC for hardware and hoses I had it on and working flawlessly. Just like I remember. Probably won't use it often but it'll beat a wheel barrel of chicken crap any day lol Now for pics    ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
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Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2024 at 6:06pm
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You gotta love the old pictures. There were a lot fewer pics taken back in the old days before cell phones so that makes them even more precious. Good piece of history there and you are honoring your past. Your Grandpa would be proud. ------------- '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: AC WD45
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2024 at 6:11pm
Cant wait to get the WD tore down and repaired so I can get them both out side by side. This WD45 has always been very sentimental too me. I was on the fence about putting a loader back on it but once I found this photo my mind was made up. Sure will be hand and gives me an excuse to get grandpas tractor out a little more often. ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |
AllisFreak MN wrote:Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2024 at 9:04am
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Very nice! The comment about pictures from that era is right on the mark. I have albums full of people pictures, many of whom nobody knows/remembers. I can't find a picture of a tractor, with or without operator around here from the 70's or 80's to save my life! |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2024 at 9:41am
| Good memories! |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2024 at 8:37pm
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I grew up in the 50t's. My dad bought one of the last WD's new in 53. ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2024 at 11:42pm
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Yes, OLD pics!! They are PRECIOUS and few and far between. I have many and also as has been said, LOTS of them are pics from grandparents and NOBODY knows who the people in them are. DARN!! Sure wish people would have written on the backs!! That loader looks GREAT on it!! For the 'correct police' It's MY tractor so pffft....(as Shameless would say!!! God bless him!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024 at 7:38am
Ted, you are loads right! I've had a few people get sassy with me on the cream wheels. Once I tell them why its that way and why it won't change they clam right up! ------------- German Shepherd dad 1957 Allis Chalmers WD45 #WD234847 1951 Allis Chalmers WD #WD88193 |