Just saw a vary rare 1466 coming up for auction.

Saturday the 10th there is going to be a 1466 Tric going on the block in Winamac In. at Gary Olsons. That is one that i have never seen before , i have seen a 1066 and a 766 tric. but never a 14 . Darn good thing i am a little short or that one would be in my stable .

Are you or anybody going to be able to get pictures of this tractor? We like pictures! Armand

Nope Gary's sale is five and half hours west of me . I do not run the sale trail anymore but i am on the mailing list for everyplace i use to go . Being on the road every week going to sales is over for me . I do miss not seeing old jockey friends that i knew and the auctioneers that we knew. Or the farmers that i met at different sales across In. Oh. and Ill. Bought a lot of tractors off some of them sometimes i helped guy check tractors over before they bought them . Got a lot of good deals and every once in a while i got hammered. sold stuff to my friends and that is what they are farming with today. Met Gary twenty plus years ago when he was first starting a sale , he was at a nother sale where my buddy and i went twice a month and he was passing out sale bills looking for buyers to come . My buddy and i went to his first sale and ended up buying over four semi loads out of there . Never bought a tractor off Garys sale that was not what he said it was. Flat up and stole a super nice 750 Massey combine with both heads and a header cart off season one of the best deals i ever got and to this day i still kick myself for not keeping that one.

There is one in the photo ads right now out of TN. Got to wonder if it's the same one.

In the Delta tricycle fronts were more common than wide fronts on Farmalls up through the 806 and 856, but were also found on some of the larger tractors. Most were also sold without TA. The Tennessee 1466 advertised was probably a former Delta tractor.

Harold H

I have a 766 tricycle. It's the only one I have seen, though I know they made more than that. Mine was purchased from the original owner, still has the original paint. It has been a really good tractor.
It is also a diesel.

I have seen several at tractor pulls but I assume they just took the wide front off and put the narrow under it. These were farm stock and hot farm stock pulls.

I think I read in Bermuda Ken's book that those larger tractors with narrow fronts usually had Corn pickers (and maybe cotton pickers, in MS.) mounted on them. I wonder how many tractors would have been sold with a narrow front without mounted equipment on them? Not many at all I presume. Am I correct in remembering such a fact?

In SE Minnesota there were quite a few 1066 tractors sold with both wide and narrow front ends. The were uses with mounted sweet corn pickers in the Fall and pulled green pea combines in the Summer with the wide front so they could straddle the windrow.

Tractors with tricycle fronts are much better cultivating tractors in large plant crops is part of the reason most tractors up through 806 size were sold with narrow front ends in the South. Also much more manuverable to turn around on the turn rows.

Harold H

(quoted from post at 16:38:12 12/10/11) I think I read in Bermuda Ken's book that those larger tractors with narrow fronts usually had Corn pickers (and maybe cotton pickers, in MS.) mounted on them. I wonder how many tractors would have been sold with a narrow front without mounted equipment on them? Not many at all I presume. Am I correct in remembering such a fact?

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(quoted from post at 16:58:23 12/10/11) In SE Minnesota there were quite a few 1066 tractors sold with both wide and narrow front ends. The were uses with mounted sweet corn pickers in the Fall and pulled green pea combines in the Summer with the wide front so they could straddle the windrow.

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The canning companies around here always used Olivers, 1655s IIRC.

Pictures?