[AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to restore.

[Larry D. Goss]

Yep.  That's what I remember seeing, Herb.  My next door neighbor had
three of them.  He used one as a pars car so he could keep at least one
of the others on the road.  (Not unlike what we do with our tractors.)
:-)

They also had a funky regulator for the windows.  Turn it one direction
from the closed position and it went down.  Turn it in the other
direction and it slid toward the rear to act as a vent in bad weather.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Herbert Metz
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:24 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to restore.

Larry
I bet few people remember the old Terraplane, and its unusual gear
shift! 
Our rural mail delivery man drove one for several years.  It used a
steering 
column shift with a one inch dia.stationary housing sticking to the
right 
approx ten inches.  The last 2" had a scale model  "H" pattern selection

within the housing with distance across the H being less than 2"; the
gear 
shift lever was a chrome plated 1/4" dia rod sticking up toward the
driver 
approx 3/4".  I thought it was "neat".
Herb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to restore.


> It's not a Terraplane transmission is it?  I'm completely out of my
> league here.  I was born too late to develop an interest in those cars
> while they were still on the road, but I thought they had a complex
> planetary transmission in them with automatically operated wet
hydraulic
> clutches. According to a conversation I just had at dinner with an
> "older" friend, they had trouble with the clutches and everybody used
a
> manual override to do the shifting.
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of George
Willer
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:36 PM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: RE: [AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to restore.
>
> Larry,
>
> As far as I know it's proprietary.  It's a system of planetary gears
and
> clutches.  It may be patterned after the model T Ford, except that's
> it's a
> dual range.  The dual range selector is between the transmission and
> differential, so the model T comparison can't be ruled out... but the
> main
> control is a single lever that selects hi-lo-rev in addition to the
dual
> range.
>
> The engine is a 10 HP Wisconsin.
>
> Those guys spent far too much building the tractors to ever hope for
any
> profit.
>
> Sounder NEEDS one of these!
>
> George Willer
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry D. Goss
>> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:20 PM
>> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
>> Subject: RE: [AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to restore.
>>
>> What's the transmission in that thing, George?  It looks hefty enough
>> for considerable horsepower.
>>
>> I've got a Cub Cadet 106 that I want to get rid of this spring.  I
> just
>> started thinking -- if I don't get started out in the shop in the
next
>> few days, the prime sales season is going to pass me by.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of George
> Willer
>> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:41 PM
>> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
>> Subject: RE: [AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to restore.
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> Of course the Power King is interesting, but for small, scarce, odd
>> ball,
>> and loaded  with big tractor features, it would be very hard to beat
> an
>> Amigo.
>>
>> They were only built for two years, but were built like a tank.  I
> have
>> an
>> original that drives everyone nuts who sees it.  Maybe I should take
> it
>> to
>> shows?
>>
>>
>
http://members.toast.net/gwill/album/Tractors/Garden%5FTractors/Riding_m
>> ower
>> _leftside.jpg
>>
>> Mine has a planetary automatic dual range transmission, 3 pt hitch,
>> individual turning brakes, and two PTO shafts.  It does have sheet
> metal
>> fenders, hood, wheels, and seat pan, but everything else is cast
iron.
>>
>> Maybe you could get lucky and find one?
>>
>> George Willer
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>> > bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry D. Goss
>> > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:08 PM
>> > To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
>> > Subject: RE: [AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to
> restore.
>> >
>> > Power King.  It's one of the smallest full-featured tractors ever
>> built.
>> > There are about 1500 people on-line helping each other to rebuild
> and
>> > maintain them.  They came into being in 1946 and have been an
orphan
>> > brand for about 10 years.
>> >
>> > Larry
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Chris
>> Britton
>> > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:16 PM
>> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> > Subject: [AT] looking for small / interesting tractor to restore.
>> >
>> > Well, most of my tractor funds are dried up right now.. but the
>> > 'treasurer'
>> > has given me permission to buy something odd/ interesting.. or
> small.
>> >
>> > I've already got a IH cub, and an Allis G.. Have been looking for a
> JD
>> > L/LA
>> > any other ideas?  ( silver king? )
>> >
>> > Soundguy


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