Gambles 22

Al Negstad · Sep 4, 2013

A friend, who"s father was a Gambles dealer is looking for a Gambles 22 tractor.

Steve A W · Sep 4, 2013

I'd like to see a picture of one.
Any idea who made it?

Steve A W

Dave_Id · Sep 4, 2013

I may be wrong here, but the only tractor I'm familiar with that Gambles sold was the Farmcrest 30, AKA Cockshutt 30. I had a 1948 that you could still make out the Farmcrest decals. I'm not familiar with a Gambles 22. Perhaps they did sell the Cockshutt 20, and called it a 22. But I don't know. We had a Gambles store in my hometown in central Minnesota. I remember them selling tractors when I was real little. The store became Tempo in the 60's. Torn down now, and something much bigger in it's place. If what he was talking about is the Farmcrest 30, he can get a hold of any Cockshutt 30, and stick on some Farmcrest decals.

Dick2 · Sep 4, 2013

Gambles tractor were re-branded Cockshutts. There were a few sold in ND after WWII when tractors were in very short supply. Gambles also sold a few self-propelled combines, that were also made by Cockshutt. Unfortunately, Gambles never had a service organization - they refered their customers to the COOP's for service.

Gambles also made an effort in small pre-fabricated houses - but that didn't do very well.

I think that the whole thing was not too well thought out. Cockshutt had some of their own dealers, quite a few COOP dealers and then added Gambles - all trying to sell the same products.

Mike (WA) · Sep 5, 2013

I googled it, and came up with a Gambles LM22 riding lawnmower.

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