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Mike CA

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The talk of the SHTA, and some others reminded me of a funny idea I had. I sold a '46 to my BIL which had combine wheels on the back and made it sit real low. I though that someday I could buy it back and restore it, and make it an "H-U", for Utility!, maybe even a "Low bow". :lol:

That would be fun, and blow some skull caps off.


ahhh, maybe someday. But I have a '44 H that needs my attention first.
 
Yeah I need to get my Davery model A running again.

An Avery A with a 60 hp Datsun engine and tranny in front of the origional tranny.

20 some forward gears and a few reverses.
 
There was an F-30, well sort of at Elnora last weekend. The guy built this monster for logging and it is a beast and a half. It has a 500 cid cadillac engine and two transmissions with a monster winch on the back on an F-30 rear end. He made a full pull at the exhibitor fun pull and could have dragged the pulling sled home if they would have let him. Glad they didn't because I was two tractors back from him in line.
 
My Grandfather's first tractor was one that he built back in the fourties (I think). He built it using a Ford flathead V8 and two truck transmissions. Dad said that he went to Sears & Roebuck and bought the biggest tractor tires that they had to put the horsepower to the ground. Dad claimed that it could reach 45mph but that you wouldn't want to. In the seventies, when I was old enough to know what he was talking about, Dad took me to the farm to show me the 'Doodlebug' as he called it. It had been abandoned for about thirty years and only about two feet of the chassis was still above-ground. Sure would be fun to try to bring it back from the dead. It's probably a Toyota now.
 
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