Spy Pic: What is This Tractor?

ghostdncr · Jan 1, 2019

I was out working on a friend's property this morning and spotted a decaying yellow tractor way off across a flooded field. Instead of trying to wade across that mess for a closer look, I got this photo just betting several of y'all will know exactly what it is. It's not ringing any bells for me:

rustred · Jan 1, 2019

if its yellow then its the Minneapolis version of the Avery tractor.

rrlund · Jan 1, 2019

Something interesting on that tractor that never caught my eye before. I'd heard some of the Cletrac crawlers had a notch in the gas tank where the steering column would go on the General tractors. Note on that one that the column sits so much lower that the notch wouldn't be necessary anyway. Funny that they carried that notch that late in to production.

coshoo · Jan 1, 2019

Cletrac General, I think.

JOCCO · Jan 1, 2019

Moline BF or v in same family as Avery

T.R.K. · Jan 1, 2019

That is a Minneapolis-Moline BF. It has the MM hydraulic cylinder on it. BF Avery made one called the model R before MM bought them out. It
had different hydraulics.

Its kinda sad to see it in the ground hub-deep.

Leroy · Jan 1, 2019

The General became the Avery A and when MM bought out Avery they droped the A and only kept the larger Avery R as the MM BF or BG that was not built by Avery but is a 1 row offset tractor with the BG standing for B Garden. and the small Avery V as the MM V.

rrlund · Jan 2, 2019

It just surprises me that the notched tank didn't get redesigned at some point. Just a little thing that happened to catch my eye.

Spy Pic: What is This Tractor?

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