[Farmall] McCormick Deering Model8 Tractor Plow.

[John Hall]

Go to Wisconsinhistory.org. Search for McCormick then find the link for 
paint committe decisions. That may be of some help.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray McKinney" <mckinney at ecentral.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: [Farmall] McCormick Deering Model8 Tractor Plow.


>I went to an auction recently to buy some items. A plow was not on my list, 
>but there sat a McC. and it came home with me. None of the other items came 
>home with me.
> QUESTION;; The plow is mostly blue, with red  here and there,  was the 
> blue some kind of primer  and red was painted over it, in some places it 
> looks like  blue was the color with red pin stripping.
>
> What year would the plow be, it has orginal rubber 5:50 by 16  tires, 
> mounted on yellow disk wheels and has a small trailer wheel with rubber 
> tire.
>
> It is not a 'little genius" as I have a factory black and white of the 
> little genius being pulled by a new F-30. The steel wheels of the plow are 
> yellow, the rest of the plow could be red or blue as it is difficult to 
> discern colors in black and white pictures.
>
> I recall, there was some discussion of a a high wheel Farmall recently. I 
> have a picture of a n F12 with a  48 inch clearance. The picture was takin 
> in April 10,  1930.This clearance permited drilling wheat in standing 
> corn. Three one row wheat drills were pulled with this tractor and 
> apprfoximately 50 acres were seeded by two men in one day as compared to 6 
> or 7 acres per man whree horses were used to pull the drills.
>
> It apears one would need a ladder to mount and demount the tractor. I 
> would not care to drive it  on anything but very level ground.
> Mac in colorado.
>
>
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