JIM I FOUND AN ODD 1 FOR YOU, HELP! PIC

Anonymous-0 · Mar 19, 2011

Jim, while out with a couple of tractor pulling buddies today I found an IH that none of us has ever heard of or seen before. It appears to be complete and all original with the decals barely visable. A WDR 9???, below the standard McCormick water transfer decal it says RICE FIELD SPECIAL? Have you ever heard of or seen this model? The tractor has IH steel wheels with 2 extensions on each side. The front has pneumatic tires with what looks to be a factory design skidplate/ski assembly bolted to it. The tractor itself makes for an excellet example for proper original decal placement for a diesel. Does anyone have information on this model of IH???

Cory

Tyler Jackson · Mar 19, 2011

Can't be to many of those. Need to restore that one.

Janicholson · Mar 19, 2011

Rice specials were quite common in the standard range. (in rice growing regions) Later ones have rice tires with wide spaced deep traction bars. The diesel would make it that much more rare. Cool find. Jim

Farmaller · Mar 19, 2011

Looks just like my WD-9 except for fenders, they do not look original, does it have foot clutch or hand clutch, mine has hand clutch, nice tractor to get running, although I prefer rubber on rear.

Jg20601 · Mar 19, 2011

Found a pic in my IH book. (the fenders are original) They started building WR-9 tractors in 1945. The WDR-9 tractor was built as an alternative, and could be ordered with the optional wide steel wheels on back.
A Super Series was introdced in 1953, and prdction ended in 1956.

Harold H · Mar 19, 2011

It is a WDR-9 Rice Field Special. They were standard with; curved flat top fenders as seen, hand clutch, nodified platform, foot decellerator, mud shields, big steel front and steel rear wheels. Rubber front (F-1)(single rib)and rubber rear (R-2)(R&C) tires were oprional. Very common in the Delta areas of Mississippi, Arkansas, Arkansas, and other rice growing areas of the USA.

Harold H

Harold H · Mar 19, 2011

What part of the country is this tractor located in?

Harold H

rustred · Mar 19, 2011

if it is a WDR9 someone stuck steel on the rear and cobbled up some 15-30 fenders on it as those definitly are not for that tractor.check the serial # under the fuel tank and it will tell you if its a wdr9 or wd9 with a hand clutch.

55 50 Ron · Mar 19, 2011

As others have said, it is definitely a WDR-9.
I ran one all the summer of 1956 for a neighbor. But his had tires on the rear. Hand clutch, big flat top fenders, etc. This was in small grain country of Towner County, North Dakota. So they weren't only found in rice growing areas. But I suspect it was rare for North Dakota, because I never saw another like it. However, the regular WD-9 was very common.

diesel cowboy · Mar 20, 2011

I would spend an hour looking that tractor over at a show. Steel really sets the (R) and (D) parts off to me.

Harold H · Mar 20, 2011

Rustred,

Those are the regular WDR-9 fenders. Also that tractor probably came with steel front and rear and somebody put the rubber fronts on later. One extension wheel on the rear was very common and two extensions as pictured was not uncommon.

Harold H

rustred · Mar 20, 2011

i stand corrected on the fenders, just did not know they kept the old fender design from the thirtys. if its factory steel that would be quite uncommon on the rice model.

sflem849 · Mar 20, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:33:51 03/19/11) It is a WDR-9 Rice Field Special. They were standard with; curved flat top fenders as seen, hand clutch, nodified platform, foot decellerator, mud shields, big steel front and steel rear wheels. Rubber front (F-1)(single rib)and rubber rear (R-2)(R&C) tires were oprional. Very common in the Delta areas of Mississippi, Arkansas, Arkansas, and other rice growing areas of the USA.

Harold H

When we went to Stuttgart, AR to pick up our dogs I didn't see any tractors. I was hoping to find a neat one like this and I could probably count the old tractors that I saw on one hand. Times must have been a lot tougher down there and they all got scrapped? When I soil sample fields up here in WI I bet I see one old tractor per farm parked in the weeds. Down in Stutt you can see for miles and I never saw a tractor!!!

You MUST buy that tractor

I would probably put it on rear rubber just for ease of use.

Harold H · Mar 20, 2011

Rustred,

During most of the years of production, not sure what year it changed, of the WR/WDR-9's, steel was standard and rubber was optional instead of the other way around. Even though steel was standard, I'm resonably sure that especially in the later years, many more were equipped with rubber than with steel. The WR/WDR steel wheels, both front and rear, were much larger than the regular W/WD-9 steel wheels.

Harold H

Harold H · Mar 20, 2011

I can't tell if the pictured tractor still has them, but mud scrapers for the rear steel wheels were standard on the steel equipped WD/WDR-9 tractors. This is another feature that was on the WR/WDR tractors but not on the regular W/WD tractors on steel.

As I have stated in the distant past on this forum, I think the (WR/WDR-9, Super WDR-9, and WR-9S) Rice Field Special is the best looking and best portioned looking tractor IHC ever produced.

Harold H

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