brahamfireman

No live power or hydraulics, I get into 2 foot tall swamp grass and things spiral south quickly. First gear is all it wants. It works great for finish mowing the yard, but not for miles of ditch mowing. Also the "live power" axle clutch is shot so if you hit a wet spot, your done. One day it'll go through the shop and get fixed, for now it's a good auger rig.

Oliver is a 1650 diesel with an oliver loader. Was a 2020 end of year tax purchase by dad. Allis Chalmers is a little CA dad inherited 2 years ago from his father, it's got a woods belly mower thats way to big for it. It's a good auger tractor. White case is a 2090, 6700 hours. Was a manure spreader tractor prior to 2010, now it just pulls wagons. Dualed up tractor by combine is my 3394 case. Bought it 7 years ago with a noise in transmission. Split it and put in new parts, been a great tractor. It's the main tillage machine, plus nh3 knife puller. Cab tractor in first Pic is a 706 diesel that was owned by the widow I bought the 856 from. I "drove" it to the consignment sale but it could barely pull itself, clutch was junk. Terrible blow by. Think it sold for 2K.

Front end on, pto on, the 4" pieces I cut out of the knees, and one of the locomotives, just for fun.

Got the pto rebuild done and installed, albeit it twice because of my own cheapness. Put the front axle back on after having the center tube straightened. Had to cut 4" off the tubes of each knee because the center tube was dented way in near the pivot. Without cutting, the front tires were out about 38" on center and wouldn't go any further in. After trimming I got them down to 32". They're still narrower then the rears so that's good enough for me. No pics, broke my phone Sunday, new screen will be in Thursday.

I believe the drawbar to be factory original, although it's been broken, welded and wore out again so newish parts are going on. It'll go back to a wide front just because narrow wasn't an option on the 856 custom. The 756 across from it got the narrow front already.

18.4x34 I thought the same thing. Being that everyone wants 38" rubber I think I might start going the other way and put 34" on the diesel toys.

I spy front mount hydraulic couplers. Rarely see those.

Got the pto rebuilt and back on, rears are narrowed way up, new radiator hoses and lube cooler hoses. Next step is tighten wheel wedges and put fenders and platform on. For some reason the 856 has 66 series fender mounts and 06 series fenders... Someone also torched off the outside 2" of the platform, luckily the 756 i bought for another project has the right parts. Somewhere in the mix I pulled the double remotes off the 856, pulled the single remote off my 806 and swapped them. So the 856 is back to factory single remote.

Got it inside, pulled front end off and range top cover off. Pics of chipped gear and old parts. Ended up putting a new high low shaft, and arm in because the foot the detents ride on was broke off the shaft. Detent spring was also gone.

Took it to work and gave it a good bath with the Hotse, then blew it all apart. Took off hoods, fenders, platform and another round of washing. It cleaned up pretty good. Pics of the bath.

I got it home, gave it a good look over and planned on putting it in the shed with the rest of our tractors. Figured it's never been inside for 20 years, it will be very happy behind dad's 806 row crop, and my 806 wheatland. I posted a few pics in the general chat forum and that's where it was pointed out to me its an 856 custom. So plans changed. I took it to work where I could tinker on it in the warmth over winter. Plans are to make it factory original except for the turbo setup will stay. So far I've slid the rear wheels in real narrow cuz I love the look. I rebuilt the pto because it wouldn't shut off, I rebuilt parts of the range top cover. I knew when I bought it that it had a chipped reverse gear, that's staying that way for now. I Pulled the front end off to get the center tube straightened. The narrow front was put on just to keep it mobile. The 3 point is shot but I think I've got enough parts to make it good and tight again. Lots of little random things that were wrong with it. I'll post pics and updates as I go. Pics of it the first day I got it home.

Neighbor guy needed electrical help with his 856 a couple years ago. When i was working on it i noticed it had the 1256 turbo setup on it. I told him if you ever want to sell it to call me, full well knowing nothing ever leaves that farm. I got the opportunity to farm his land spring of 2021, sadly he passed fall of 2021, but I was able to buy the 856 from his widow. I handed her a check and said if it starts I'm going to drive it home, well it fired right up and I drove it 1.5 miles home. Here's a Pic of it when I got it fired up and was about to leave.

656 rear end?

Definetly gunna need pics of that.

I fully believe you, but something as slipped through the cracks. I'm literally looking at one, and the poster above has one. I find oddities like this fascinating. I assume there was no option to get a short shoe machine after the long shoe came out???

The poster above me mentioned it, and for some reason the serial number stuck in my head. Well by per stupid luck, I have here in our shed, a neighbors machine. cummins powered, short shoe 1680. Serial number, 48147. So I think SDmans serial number break is off. I dont know why I'm so fascinated by these weird short shoe cummins machines.....

Was this just the 1680's or did the 40 and 60 machines have a period where they had the CDC and short shoe too?

I bet those are rare machines. Any idea what serial numbers both changes occured?

1986---"Separating area increased by 24% on 1620, 32% on 1640 and 1660, 41% on 1680" please explain? I'm pretty sure the long shoe machines came out in 1990 when the CDC engine came out, AND the logo change from big black model numbers to small numbers. I think all 3 occured at once. I know my 1480 seive, shoe parts will fit in an early short shoe 1680. also 1985. Cabs tops were painted red, and they were Case IH machines.

The first link now works, but the 2nd doesn't. Wish I could have gone but equipment needing to be washed and put away took priority, plus sitting in the blazing sun and heat just didn't seem like fun to me.

Good luck in this heat. I'm staying in the AC.

So is the old 1206 retiring or are you Gunna run 2 tractors?