Summer 2010 Prject, 1957 Farmall 450

Its been awhile since ive been on here but heres the latest project that my dad and i have completed. We purchased this 450 from the grandson of the original ower with the intent of using it around the house but we had to replace the battery box and one thing led to another and thanks to friends and family we ended up with this..... This project took 3 and a half weeks start to finish, we put the last coat of paint on the grill at midnight the night before it went to the pagent of steam.
Dave

Nice looking crew you got there...tractor ain't too shabby either. Thanks for showing the "before" as well as "after" photos in the same posting. You got something there to be seriously proud about...your crew and your tractor!!

Rick

Really nice job! That 450 looks better than it did new. Thanks for sharing your pictures. My dad has a 57 450 diesel that we'll be tackling some day. First we have a 340U torn apart in the shop and a SMTA sittin outside since it just got powerwashed last night. Its quite the dilemma deciding witch project to tackle next. I hope you guys have a project to keep you busy this winter.

Thanks guys it was quite a project to get it done in 3 and a half weeks it was a good thing i had the crew of help that i did. In the last picture left to right is my dad, myself, and my good friend mat that i have known since kindergarten. Mat is a bodyman by trade and he did a heck of a job straightening and painting the tin. The whole project was a lot of fun though, my mother kept us fed well and my girlfriend even spent many hours infront of the blasting cabinet for me Were workin on a few other projects for the winter months including an M and a 49 cub that followed me home a few weeks ago along with an w-9, I-9 and a h that weve had for awhile. Heres a pic of my 48 cub that i did when i was 12 and the 49 that followed me home

Wow, you've got talent and motivation, an excellent combination. Keep posting and you will either motivate me to finish some of my projects or make me feel bad that mine have taken so long.

Thanks a lot for the compliments. I've had an interest in old IH tractors since i was little, we always have had a 43 h around the house for firewood and my grandpa has a 51 H and 63 404 so i started learning about fixing old IH with those. The 1948 cub was the first tractor i bought and restored. My dad, my grandpa and a very good friend Mr. Dick Stoyell have helped me out working on a lot of my projects along with lots of other friends.
Dave

Just a suggestion.... if you'd quit pulling that trailer around, they wouldn't all follow you home :lol: .

Great looking 450 and Cub. I spent a lot of time on a 450 like that between Sundance, Wy and Spearfish, SD in the summer of '64, and Dad had a Cub from about '47 to '49, which is what I learned to drive.

(quoted from post at 20:06:39 10/12/10) Just a suggestion.... if you'd quit pulling that trailer around, they wouldn't all follow you home :lol: .

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Haha i get a similar response from my girlfriend when one of my buddies and i pull into the gas station she works at to get fuel with one of our new found toys on the trailer............

Do you remember if the 450 you ran had a depth guage for the fast hitch on the left side of the dash? when we got this one it had two cables coming from the front and rear of the fasthitch that came up to a bracket on the left side of the dash cowel but the guage part was missing, and ive yet to find one intact.
Dave

Terrific looking paint! Thanks for posting!

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(quoted from post at 20:06:39 10/12/10) Just a suggestion.... if you'd quit pulling that trailer around, they wouldn't all follow you home :lol: .

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Do you remember if the 450 you ran had a depth guage for the fast hitch on the left side of the dash? when we got this one it had two cables coming from the front and rear of the fasthitch that came up to a bracket on the left side of the dash cowel but the guage part was missing, and ive yet to find one intact.
Dave

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It's been a few years and I really don't remember. I did plow with a 3x16" F-H plow, but not very much. We had about 50 acres of irrigated corn for the trench silo and that's all we used the F-H plow for. I think I only plowed one day with the mounted plow. Mostly we baled alfalfa with it and an IH baler. We had 400 acres of alfalfa on the ranch and we baled almost every afternoon, with the 450 on the baler and a 350D loading and unloading bales on a big bale trailer (I think either 240 or 248 bales). There was a Farmhand accumulator on the baler and the bale pickup on the 350D loader. We would swath with a Cockshut swather in the mornings and bale in the afternoons.
I also pulled a 5x14" pull type plow a few days on spring wheat stubble and we pulled a 1 row IH chopper with the 450 filling the silo... I don't remember if I ever drove it while chopping corn, mostly I drove an old army 6X hauling the silage.
That 450 was the workhorse tractor on the ranch at that time... the 350D was used maybe 1/4 as many hours, but I drove it [u:3b80005c92]a lot[/u:3b80005c92] handling bales. I don't recall the 450 ever causing a problem. We just changed oil, gassed it up (it did use a lot of gas) and worked the heck out of it.