Picked up a rare 706.

[Big Bud guy]

7 minutes ago, brahamfireman said:

Got the loader and cab off today, new used muffler went on after I took the Pic. Tomorrow it gets pressure washed.

 

 

Nice.  Another question does it have the rear platform extension.?

[sandhiller]

7 hours ago, Jacka said:

Loader looks tough,built. I bet set of round bale forks it would move some hay in the winter. Those big hind tires would go through the mud.

That's a DuAl Loader, 3100 maybe, but good loader nonetheless

[acem]

I like the grapple & loader.

Like the tractor too.

[dale560]

18 minutes ago, brahamfireman said:

I have a high school friend who moved to Keif over 20 years ago so I've been east of Minot many times.  I've only been to Williston once before it was an oil town. 

I love traveling through ND, very scenic compared to here. 

If you were at Keif you were about 20 miles from my work and about 25 miles from where my dad lived for years and I did until I was 2. Karlsruhe ND is our first hometown. Karlsruhe was German /Russian from Ukraine area. Keif was always referred to as just Russian. Their surnames ended in Yeko, sky and other long like honchorenko, novorodsky, moseanko and the like.

The water plant I operate is just north of the ADM plant at Voltaire. It serves people in the area north of keif.

[acem]

A neighbor's last name is Sawitsky. Their family was from Lithuanian.

I thought sky ending names were from Poland and surrounding areas?

Could be wrong...

[Cool1566]

2 hours ago, brahamfireman said:

Looks better already!  Are those Safemark rears?

[Brady Boy]

Not sure if Jerry Smoker still owns this one, but it's a beautiful example.  BK

[brahamfireman]

4 hours ago, dale560 said:

The water plant I operate is just north of the ADM plant at Voltaire. It serves people in the area north of keif.

They are SE just a few mile of Keif by Kandt lake but have rural water piped in, does your plant send water down there too?

[brahamfireman]

2 hours ago, Cool1566 said:

4 hours ago, brahamfireman said:

Looks better already!  Are those Safemark rears?

No I think they said "Premium" somewhere on them.  I'll look tomorrow for a name. 

[dale560]

8 hours ago, brahamfireman said:

They are SE just a few mile of Keif by Kandt lake but have rural water piped in, does your plant send water down there too?

I think so . I was looking at map last night and we do serve the little town of keif and south for a bit,  the water I am responsible for Getty pumped around 50 miles each way of the plant and a 50 mile or so wide band.  I think we have 5000 customers or so but that is spread over 120 miles by 50 to 70 mile wide band with some of the water coming from 2 other sources, Minot nd water and a bit comes from parshall nd on west end.

[TN Hillbilly]

On 5/23/2026 at 6:37 PM, mike newman said:

...don't get any idea's about desecrating your fine old 706 with that pig iron shown above.....

Mike 

Never, Mike.

[russtred]

I saw that for sale locally and seriously considered going after it, but we already have 3 706 Standards (Wheatlands).   One is a gas.  Dad put an engine from a salvage yard in it, painted it up, and put a 2350 loader on it.  Now it's too pretty to use. It's also too loud and fuel inefficient compared to the D282s.  

[IowaFarmall]

Neat tractor!!!  Do you know anything about the pre cleaner above the hood?  Looks like some wheatlands had this as an option?  I am looking at a gas row crop with this precleaner and  trying to figure out if it could have been an option or if it’s a Frankenstein.  Either way nice machine you have!

[russtred]

In the case of mine, it was a farmer retrofit.  The filter housing was from a larger tractor. The louvered access door on the hood was removed because the can stuck out too far.  A hole was torched in the hood for the precleaner.  

[brahamfireman]

On 7/19/2026 at 3:12 PM, IowaFarmall said:

Neat tractor!!!  Do you know anything about the pre cleaner above the hood?  Looks like some wheatlands had this as an option?  I am looking at a gas row crop with this precleaner and  trying to figure out if it could have been an option or if it’s a Frankenstein.  Either way nice machine you have!

I can't see any markings on it,  but I can tell that someone holesawed a hole in the hood and then poorly welded the vertical pipe onto the existing pipe that used to pull air from above the radiator. Leads me to believe it was added later in life.

I moved the top and the plastic bowl onto my 1256 and changed out the air filter housing to one that pulls from above the radiator, I didn't like the look of the above hood intake on a small 706 gas. 

[bitty]

Was an 806 gas Wheatland at the neighbors farm since new. It sold at the auction 23 years ago 

[Gabriella Cook]

I was never a fan of those fenders had a 706 like that once, I hated the look of it so I took the squareish fenders from an 856 and made it work and then it was totaled

[dale560]

The bowl air pre cleaner was an add on most dealers sold or farmers added to tractors. In heavy dust conditions they were supposed to help. Then the black pre cleaners with exhaust vacuum after that.

R and W were the early precleaners on a lot of 56 and 66 series up here than the turbo 2.

[russtred]

@brahamfireman I don't think I have seen a TA delete 706 before.  I have seen a few Wheatland 806s without it, but not 7s.  Also, were your rear cast centers white?  I thought I noticed that in the original marketplace ad and was wondering if your rear wheels were swapped with a 1206s at some point, or someone just thought white looked better than red.

[brahamfireman]

7 hours ago, russtred said:

@brahamfireman I don't think I have seen a TA delete 706 before.  I have seen a few Wheatland 806s without it, but not 7s.  Also, were your rear cast centers white?  I thought I noticed that in the original marketplace ad and was wondering if your rear wheels were swapped with a 1206s at some point, or someone just thought white looked better than red.

The rears are indeed white, although the insides are red. Someone painted them years ago, you can see where they got white on the rim. 

They'll go back to red if I ever paint the tractor.