Any Farmers Here Know What...
Jun 22, 2023 09:52:00 #
Many thanks to all who responded and a big thanks for pointing out the "gag" was for a belly mounted blade for road grading...had never seen one before!! Was surprised how many knew this and took the time to answer...appreciate all the responses!! 
Jun 22, 2023 10:24:55 #
RileyJ
Loc: Alpharetta, GA
The gag was used to raise and lower a blade attached to the rear of the tractor?
Jun 22, 2023 10:44:23 #
Jun 22, 2023 11:14:01 #
RileyJ wrote:
The gag was used to raise and lower a blade attached to the rear of the tractor?
No, the way I understand it was from the "belly" of the tractor and, you could control the angle of the blade, and maybe the height, as it graded the road.
Jun 22, 2023 11:14:52 #
Earnest Botello wrote:
Great find, Jim.
Thanks Earnest...this old tractor is about my age only I don't look that good!!
Jun 22, 2023 11:16:43 #
Jun 22, 2023 13:15:57 #
jederick wrote:
Thanks Earnest...this old tractor is about my age only I don't look that good!!
Ahhhhh.....but you are young at heart even if you are old everywhere else.
😋 😊
Jun 22, 2023 13:16:36 #
Jun 22, 2023 13:37:51 #
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.
Jun 22, 2023 14:09:09 #
I looks to me like a mechanism to raise and lower a blade for grading etc.
Jun 22, 2023 14:12:30 #
Jun 22, 2023 14:16:24 #
Jun 22, 2023 14:30:33 #
I looks to me like a mechanism to raise and lower a blade for grading etc.
Jun 22, 2023 15:04:58 #
JFP wrote:
If I was going to guess, the attachment it would be used to control a tow behind grader
There were ‘tow behind’ graders, originally pulled by horses and later by tractors but the lift wheels were mounted on the grader by a platform that the grader operator stood on. Theses wheels are definitely for a tractor mounted blade.
Jun 22, 2023 15:18:06 #
Pretty sure one of the earliest Farmalls.
From Wiki:
The Farmall Regular, or just the Farmall, was the first in the Farmall line of general-use row-crop tractors manufactured by International Harvester. The Regular was the first affordable tractor that could be used for plowing, stationary threshing, or cultivating. For most of its product life it was marketed as the "Farmall," with the "Regular" added when the Farmall F-20 and F-30 appeared as its successors. More than 134,000 were sold from 1924 to 1931.
From Wiki:
The Farmall Regular, or just the Farmall, was the first in the Farmall line of general-use row-crop tractors manufactured by International Harvester. The Regular was the first affordable tractor that could be used for plowing, stationary threshing, or cultivating. For most of its product life it was marketed as the "Farmall," with the "Regular" added when the Farmall F-20 and F-30 appeared as its successors. More than 134,000 were sold from 1924 to 1931.
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