rustred

the question is how far would you go bidding ?

no, i was told by a guy that knows him that he was there with his buddy . could not stand them being sold so he packed his bags and went back to the U.S. and said call me when they are gone. they must have been sitting for years in that quonset as there was lots of nice original units there.

the thing is the threads are most likely rusted and seized. so loosen them all with lube on the treads then tighten them evenly . nothing saying u need a 250 lb guy to do the job. tightening them in a star shape a bit at a time is the key. then a final pull with a 3/4 drive rachet. when something is loose and stuck you always loosen the bolts lube and tighten in this case.

well u missed the big sale by Red Deer AB, here . i heard the scrapper chopped up 165 m.h. tractors at 1000.00 each. complete would be running tractors. there was over 200 tractors for sale. many many same models if you wanted it it was there. some really nice looking originals , some painted. the quonset was jammed full and lots outside. that was sick just thinking about it. lots of 33, 333, 44's up to the 444, 55 and 555's and lots of smaller ones too. the 44 special was a good tractor . they were all decent tractors.

that was back when the tractors earn their keep at working all day long and half the night. with gear oil i would not be one bit scared going to a tractor pull or puttzing around the yard. its the same metal gears as in the rest of the tractor. i have how how many 560, and 660's here that have hytran in them and the ta's dont work. sure is odd to me that one with gear oil works perfectly. what actually is failing?

yes but it still was not thin like hy-tran.

i dont think so. my 400 still has gear oil in the trans and diff. its a low hr unit and the TA works just fine. but in colder winter weather thats another story. they actually came from the factory with gear oil and i think mine is still original iol.

i am in alberta canada.

i find it odd that a person needs all the safety stuff to prevent an accident. how come they cant see a big red tractor but they can see a tiny sign. kinda obvious the driver was distracted while driving. i shutter when i see people riding bicycles on the edge of the hyway going with the traffic.

i have looked on my MD and now i see the reason for the indent. it is to get at the oil filter housing bolt. so it appears they used the same rail on the gas engine. but why only in 53.

And as I pointed out the super 6 has them under them under carburetor also. So some other reason for that. The diesel don’t have indents on the left rail.

Yes but why did they get used only on the 53 models. 54 models have no such indents and all are flat

ok had a look on my farmall MD and it has that indent to get at the oil filter housing bolt. yes thats the reason on it. but i cant find any reasoning to have it on the gas engine.

ooh ok u want to be technical , ok yes farmall 1939

nope what?

these tractors hit the market in 1940 , both farmall and McCormick. its two different tractors. farmall is row crop,... mccormick is the standard model.

not so,..the 560 has an 18inch diameter wheel, which is 3/4 ich thick. the 660 has a 20 inch wheel which is 1 inch thick . that is not a 660 wheel. and its in rough shape also. you cannot even buy a new 660 wheel only the 560 wheel is available. and it sure dont look like that wheel has ever been off.

yes it was factory,... we are trying to figure out why the supers are called or have standard on them.

yes thats what i am saying the standard was on the hood of the standard tractors. and thats all we know them here as standards or supers. i do not know why they still kept the standard on the super models. cause when a person said standard w6 you knew he was not talking super w6. but maybe the factory engineers kept calling them standards and kept that decal on because it was not a farmall, just the standard tread model. its like who knows now. i have been around these tractors all my life and knew exactly what they meant when they were spoke of being standards. as for wheatlands that meant you did not have a farmall. farmall and rowcrop went together meaning tractors in the usa. so i dont know.

i tryed to get a pic of standard decal here. this is an original tractor. its hard to see here.

its not a diesel, unless they used them on both units. this tractor is an untouched original unit.

i am looking for a guru to tell me why they have these indents on the frame rails. they are only on the 1953 model first year of frame rails on the super. 1954 is flat, no indents.

it is getting hard to find binder twine. i remember dad buying it and it had rope like that. i have been looking for it. maybe i should just sell the binder and machine. too much work.

dang i lost my posting , got to start again. ok , the standard tractors were the w6's and w4's. that is because they had the super models in them models also and many didnt know the difference and they looked the same. they also had a decal right under "McCormick" decal saying "standard" that was how they distinquished between the two. one was standard one was super. this standard saying went away in the following series. standard tread tractors were the ones with non adjustable wheels or axles. farmall's are known as" row crops" and our international's here "standard tread."