[AT] Late 1950s Case Tractors

[John Boehm]

WE have a Case 300 in the shop right now, don't
remember if it has the lights or not.  I got this one
from a farmer in Arbuckle up north of here who bought
it new. He used it mostly in his haying operation and
said he had a lot of good service from the tractor.
The engine runs fine, but there is a problem in the
clutch system. In addition to the normal clutch at the
flywheel, there is another clutch father back in the
torque tube, along with a high low range, all before
the transmission. I can't see why the second clutch
would be needed, but it looks complicated to work on
and parts availablity may be nonexistent. The tires,
sheet metal, and engine (gasoline) are all good, so
I'll probably try to sell it cheap as is. 

There are not too many of the late 50's Cases up here
either. There were a lot of earlier Case VA series
sold here, however, VAC's, VAO's, VAI's, and the
occasional VAH. I  spent yesterday at our engine and
tractor show plowing with my VAO hooked up to a 2-14
Case Centennial plow.

John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com

  
--- Grant Brians <gbrians at hollinet.com> wrote:
> LeRoy, when you make the comment about not seeing
> Case tractors of that 
> vintage, I can relate. While I have seen some at the
> big California Antique 
> Farm Equipment show at Tulare, here in this county
> there were never many 
> Case tractors until the 1970's. The reason I think
> is very simple. Here we 
> had orchards, row crops (vegetables and flowers
> mostly), grain/hay and 
> dairies then. The preferred orchard tractors were
> Caterpillars and Fords. 
> The preferred row crop tractors were International,
> Allis Chalmers, Oliver 
> and John Deere (not necessarily in that order as it
> varied from the 40's to 
> the 70's). The preferred ground working tractors
> then and now are 
> Caterpillars and the chore tractors were mostly
> Fords and Internationals. 
> The Grain and Hay farmers of that time used largely
> Internationals and 
> Olivers for the good hydraulics of the Olivers or
> the rugged service and 
> good dealer penetration of International.
>     So I think the number of pre-1970 Case tractors
> in our county could be 
> counted on one hand....
>         Grant Brians
>         Hollister California
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "LeRoy Price III" <leroy_price3 at hotmail.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:13 PM
> Subject: [AT] Late 1950s Case Tractors
> 
> 
> >
> > For awhile the old tractor bug has been buzzing
> and was thinking about a 
> > Case tractor of
> > the late 1950s.  I've seen a 300 round nose but
> never the one with 2 
> > headlights in the front.  I've also seen Case 400s
> but again not with the 
> > 2 headlights.  I also know there was a 500, 600
> and so on.  I'm also not 
> > sure when the 430, 530 and etc came out either.
> >
> > Could someone give me a briefing on these
> tractors?
> > Do these come up for sale?  I don't seem to see
> any.
> > Many made?
> >
> > LeRoy
> >
> >
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