Case 400 pic

JayinNY · Mar 8, 2011

This is my friends Case 400 tractor on his NH manure spreader. I pulled it out so I could back it under the barn cleaner to clean the cow barn. Thought some might like to see it still working, I think he said its from the 50s. Its never been unhooked from the spreader the 9 years I have knowen him. J

Gene Dotson · Mar 8, 2011

Jay;

Nice to see the old working tractors earning their keep.

The Case 400 was made from 1954 to 1957. It is a 251 cu.in. diesel and rated at 49 horsepower and weighs about 7500 pounds. The 1957 Super diesel used a 267 Cu.In. engine at 51 horsepower.

Gene

Adirondack case guy · Mar 8, 2011

Hay Jay,
When is Jim supose to be back from Florida. I won't tell him that pics of his pride and joy toured the country also.

Allen Goodman · Mar 8, 2011

A freind of mine has 2 400's. 1 has a wide front and the other narrow front. They've sat for 10 years plus in a fence roll. We put a battery in the wide front one, rolled over, good spark, no gas. Poured gas through the intake and fired right up until the gas was gone. Got a carb rebuild kit from NAPA and it runs great. Haven't tried the narrow front one. He wants to sell both of them due to tax problems. There're made in 55 and they are 16 numbers apart. Might had been built the same day.

JayinNY · Mar 8, 2011

Were hoping 1st week of April.LOL. He dident have to deal with all the snow.... This one came from Howard Getman Case, on Guilderland Ave,?? maybe the Knight dealer now? Thought you would like the old diesel gal in its work cloths. It always starts in the winter for us! J

formerly ny bill · Mar 8, 2011

i have a friend in auburn who has a snow plowing business. back in 1968-70 when we were in college, he would have to take off if there was a big snowfall. one of his tractors with a big front plow on it was a case 400, he still has it and uses it as a backup to the newer tractors he has these days.

Adirondack case guy · Mar 8, 2011

Howard sold a lot of 400s. My Grand dad and father knew him well and I knew Darwin Wickson who took over the dealership. We also delt with the Van Wies (Medow Brook Farms) and am still good friends with Bob and Paul. I remember travling to their farm in Clarksville when I was a little kid,

Anonymous-0 · Mar 8, 2011

Where in NY was the picture taken?

JayinNY · Mar 8, 2011

I see Medow Brook Farms trucks out still today delivering milk to people in glass bottles. They put the bottles in coolers outside the customers doors. Pretty neat. The 400 is a bit akward, the gear selection, I still have a hard time finding Hi/low, no power steering, and you have to climb up the back of it. Jim and his son are taller than me, so they make it look easy, even Jim in his 60s gets on better than I do.....lol

J

JayinNY · Mar 8, 2011

Eastern NY. Not far from Albany

Fred Rogers · Mar 9, 2011

Exactly the 400's finally turned the gears around in the transmission to a more traditional shift pattern. Instead of having nuetral being up and down and shifting the gears sideways they had neutral side to side and gear shifting up and down. The single shifter is a bear and hard to shift and I would venture to guess they must have had either problems or complaints as the next series of tractors had a two stick setup for gear selection, high and low range on one stick and gear selection on the other. The smaller ones also had a 3 and 4 setup or triple range as they called it

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