Disk project or "Thank Gauwd fer power tools" LOL
Thanks, I guess I have a "thing" for Farmalls. This is our old about a '24 "Regular" the day we sold it about 10? years ago. I DROVE it on the trailer. I came awful close to crying that day!!
It's all stripped off now, but Dad rigged a belt drive hydraulic pump with a NICE blade for snow, built a front - mount buzz saw (you can see part of it in the photo at the rear of the tractor) and added generator and lights. There's a space between the clutch housing and gearbox, and he welded an old flywheel in there and added an old Ford starter.
But I'm no stranger to hand cranking. I used to get home from school, and "if I could start it" I'd get the driveway plowed before Dad got home. These old "impulse magneto" rigs start if you can manage to get them turned at ALL
This thing was a real SOB to drive on our rough ground, I used to scoot forward on the seat and clamp my knees around the wheel. It got "away" from Dad one time hitting a drainage, and damn near broke his hand.
And NO GUARD on that saw. I used to stand there, all of 12 years old, in my slick rubbers on wet grass in the fall and "throw away" from the saw, that big *** blade just LOOKIN' to take off a hand arm, or worse.
Below, the forerunner to the "Regular." This is the same blade and arms that ended up on the Farmall. This is the power/ chassis of an old grader. I've never found out who manufactured it, had a flathead Ford 6. When the "wrecker" hauled it out to our place, it was the belly pan, engine, and rear tires.
Dad built the rest, the hood, cluster, old radiator, and about 36? Ford front axle. These had (unused) cable, not hydraulic brakes. The right hand steering wheel was an antique worm steering box which hand winched the blade up and down with the drums just visible up by the rad. This is my little brother and sister about '59. I would have been 11 years old. Dad used to say it took "40 acres to turn it around," LOL
The bottom photo was the Farmall in 1960. We had just bought it for less than 300 bucks from my Great Uncles. These Regulars had no and needed no steering brakes. They had individual wheel brakes activated by cables hooked to the front steering. You could literally throw the wheel into a turn, and the inside brake would lock, allowing you to spin the tractor around on one rear wheel
You can see the lamp here, so Dad has already got the electrics on 'er. I believe this was just after repainting it.
Thanks, I guess I have a "thing" for Farmalls. This is our old about a '24 "Regular" the day we sold it about 10? years ago. I DROVE it on the trailer. I came awful close to crying that day!!
It's all stripped off now, but Dad rigged a belt drive hydraulic pump with a NICE blade for snow, built a front - mount buzz saw (you can see part of it in the photo at the rear of the tractor) and added generator and lights. There's a space between the clutch housing and gearbox, and he welded an old flywheel in there and added an old Ford starter.
But I'm no stranger to hand cranking. I used to get home from school, and "if I could start it" I'd get the driveway plowed before Dad got home. These old "impulse magneto" rigs start if you can manage to get them turned at ALL
This thing was a real SOB to drive on our rough ground, I used to scoot forward on the seat and clamp my knees around the wheel. It got "away" from Dad one time hitting a drainage, and damn near broke his hand.
And NO GUARD on that saw. I used to stand there, all of 12 years old, in my slick rubbers on wet grass in the fall and "throw away" from the saw, that big *** blade just LOOKIN' to take off a hand arm, or worse.
Below, the forerunner to the "Regular." This is the same blade and arms that ended up on the Farmall. This is the power/ chassis of an old grader. I've never found out who manufactured it, had a flathead Ford 6. When the "wrecker" hauled it out to our place, it was the belly pan, engine, and rear tires.
Dad built the rest, the hood, cluster, old radiator, and about 36? Ford front axle. These had (unused) cable, not hydraulic brakes. The right hand steering wheel was an antique worm steering box which hand winched the blade up and down with the drums just visible up by the rad. This is my little brother and sister about '59. I would have been 11 years old. Dad used to say it took "40 acres to turn it around," LOL
The bottom photo was the Farmall in 1960. We had just bought it for less than 300 bucks from my Great Uncles. These Regulars had no and needed no steering brakes. They had individual wheel brakes activated by cables hooked to the front steering. You could literally throw the wheel into a turn, and the inside brake would lock, allowing you to spin the tractor around on one rear wheel
You can see the lamp here, so Dad has already got the electrics on 'er. I believe this was just after repainting it.
