[AT] Some ads from the 8/5 Lancaster Farming

[Mike Sloane]

Oh, to be sure the fact that the tractor is on steel isn't what is 
strange - it is the "WDR McCormick Diesel" part. Now that I read it 
again and noticed that it is ""with Pulley", I have to think Dudley may 
be closer to figuring out what the seller has.

By the way, the Amish will often buy a new tractor, remove the wheels 
and tires, put on new steel wheels (made by local blacksmiths) and stick 
the new ones in the back of the barn. When he sells the tractor years 
later, you might see an ad for an older machine with "new tires and 
rims" mentioned (if he can't find another Amish to but it with the steel 
wheels).

Mike

D. Day wrote:
> The Amish (not all areas) use modern tractors with steel wheels.  I saw a 
> 2010 on steel in WI this year.
> 
> Dick
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dudley Rupert" <drupert at premier1.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 6:30 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] Some ads from the 8/5 Lancaster Farming
> 
> 
> WDR McCormick Diesel on Steel with Pulley, Good Shape. Jonathan
> Stoltzfus, 3206 West Newport Rd., Ronks PA 71572, Lanc. Co.,
> 717-768-3127. [I don't know what this is, unless it is one of the new
> McCormick's being sold by Case IH]
> 
> I don't know what that is either, Mike, and you are probably right that it
> is one of the new fangled things that Case/IH is selling but yesterday I
> bought - or maybe it was really the other way around and a guy sold me - a
> 1951 IH gas W-9 (a "BIG" standard wide front end wheat land style tractor)
> and that has got me to thinking that maybe the tractor in the ad could be an
> antique.
> I know IH built their 9 series tractor in a diesel version and gave it the
> designation WD-9 and that they made some slight modifications to it to
> appeal to the rice farmers and gave it the designation WDR-9 (or WR-9 for
> the gas version).  From reading the ad I find it hard to tell whether the
> tractor is more apt to be a few years old or fifty to sixty years old.  But,
> maybe it's more interesting to not know all the facts as that leaves room
> for speculation ...
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
> 

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