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Minneapolis Moline in the city of it's origin

Ultradog MN

Ultradog MN

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I went to look at a job in So Minneapolis this morning. On the way there I saw this old girl on a side street. So afterwards I stopped and looked at it. Owner was in the house and saw me and came out and we talked about it for a little while.
He said it was a 1957 but I forgot the model.
He just drives it around now and then. Gets a lot of thumbs up and waves.
He fired it up and it started instantly.
Sounded nice.
He'd like to organize a tractor ride around the city lakes.
I told him I'd be interested in participating. He also mentioned how there's no museum, not even a historical marker in the city for MM tractors and there ought to be. I agreed.
Tractor sits about 4 miles away from where it was originally built. Apple didn't fall far from the tree.

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We had a 1957 model 335 utility like that one; except ours had the underslung exhaust. It was a good tractor; We used it a lot on the baler.

Brother sold it and bought a larger tractor.
 
My Das had to fly into Minneapolis one time back in the 60's,he said they had a new Minnie Mo on display in the airport.
 
Mighty Mo. Best cow chaser in the county. My late brother in law had a 335. He could shift that thing up through the gears without scratching a tooth while chasing his cows, which he did on a regular basis I will add.
 
Don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but not seeing this model nor many Molines for that matter, sure has a lot of Ford resemblances. Did the two companies have any inner workings?

So which was the chicken and which the egg? I think the Ford Jubilee was the year 1953 for a benchmark.

Mark
 
Little or no relation to ford. Minnie's had long stroke engines an were the heavy weights of whatever power class they were in.
 
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