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Jun 21, 2023 14:27:42 #
Appears to be one of the ‘F’ series McCormick Deering (International) with an extended frame. The large hand wheels are manual lift mechanisms. The lifts plus extended frame suggest that it once had a belly mounted blade. They were used as self propelled road graders, usually by local governments to maintain gravel / dirt roads in the country.
Jun 21, 2023 15:06:52 #
Jun 21, 2023 22:20:34 #
Yes on International/McCormick/Farmall look.
Yes, clickety, on hand wheels for operating hand-powered manual lift.
Yes, clickety, on hand wheels for operating hand-powered manual lift.
Jun 22, 2023 05:18:11 #
jederick wrote:
Make this tractor is and what the "gag" on the side was used for?
Jim I don't know the Mfg of the tractor
"The Gag" it you are talking about the silver thing or the two wheels by the steering wheel
The Silver thing : The Magneto = ignition
The two wheels: Are probably a belly mounted lift, likely for a Cultivator
Jun 22, 2023 05:40:35 #
jederick wrote:
Make this tractor is and what the "gag" on the side was used for?
I’d have a stab at it being an International Farmall tractor. Way back, they were integrated into a road grader addon. The big hand wheel each side were fo winding the blade up or down. The operator stood between, behind those wheels to drive the machine. I see no familiar blade, but may have been removed or another implement adapted.
I recall seeing one or two in local govt machinery fleets.
Jun 22, 2023 05:45:59 #
cmc4214
Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania
clickety wrote:
Appears to be one of the ‘F’ series McCormick Deering (International) with an extended frame. The large hand wheels are manual lift mechanisms. The lifts plus extended frame suggest that it once had a belly mounted blade. They were used as self propelled road graders, usually by local governments to maintain gravel / dirt roads in the country.
You are correct
Jun 22, 2023 06:16:36 #
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Jun 22, 2023 07:23:49 #
Look up the "Classic Tractor Fever" program and see if you can send the photos to them to identify. Good luck.
Jun 22, 2023 07:50:52 #
jederick wrote:
Make this tractor is and what the "gag" on the side was used for?
Exactly what are you call a "gag"?
Jun 22, 2023 08:16:07 #
Farm Boy
Loc: Mendota Illinois
it might be used to raise or lower something like cornpicker head or even to lift something that cleans rows of corn or beans
Jun 22, 2023 08:32:00 #
Grandpa Mike
Loc: Ohio
It is an old Farmall tractor. The two large adjustment wheels are used to adjust the height of a “ Road Grader” blade mounted under the tractor.
Jun 22, 2023 08:32:35 #
I have seen such wheels on a tractor in other areas of the country, but I don't remember what they were for. They aren't a Midwest thing, I am pretty sure.
Jun 22, 2023 09:08:10 #
Those big wheels on top of the tractor look like they were used to raise and lower something like a blade similar to a road grader. It would attach to the front of the tractor at the two attachment hooks on each side of the front end. Just my guess.
Jun 22, 2023 09:11:27 #
Grandpa Mike wrote:
It is an old Farmall tractor. The two large adjustment wheels are used to adjust the height of a “ Road Grader” blade mounted under the tractor.
Yes--now I remember! And I was incorrect--when I was a little kid, a man living just down the road was the county road grader in this area, and his grader tractor looked just like that.
Thanks for reminding me.
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