[AT] What's the "rarest" tractor you own?

[MasseyH at aol.com]

I will throw my two cents in!! 
 
How about a Massey Harris I-330.  Massey made 6 of them for the  Navy.  We 
know 4 of them were scraped and the other could have been a test  tractor 
that was reconfigured.  The Massey experts say I have the only one  known to 
exist!!
 
I also have a French made Massey Harris Pony Vinyard with a Hanomag diesel  
engine.  There are several in France but only know of 4-5 in the States.  
One sold last weekend for $8700.00.  It is a sweet little original  tractor!!
 
MasseyH
 
 
In a message dated 4/21/2010 6:55:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
George_Best at adp.com writes:

My  great-grandfather and grandfather had a steam powered sawmill from the 
late  1800's until the depression.

In the 20's they bought a Fordson  locomotive from the Skagit company in 
Washington to haul logs to the sawmill  from the woods.  They had about 2 
miles of wood track going up into the  woods.  When I was a kid you could still 
find some parts of the wood  track, but I think all traces of it are pretty 
much gone now.

Skagit  converted the Fordson into a 4 wheel drive unit that had large 
castiron  flanged wheels with rubber tread for running on wood timber rails.  
>From  what I understand, Skagit only made a couple engines like this.  The 
ones  you often see in old tractor books about logging show a Fordson with 
concave  wheels for running on logs.

Imagine a regular train track, but replace  the steel rails with 6x6 wood 
rails.

I'll try to load a picture or two  on my webserver tonight.

George

-----Original  Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com  
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Lew Best
Sent:  Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:26 PM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion  group'
Subject: Re: [AT] What's the "rarest" tractor you own?

I  never realized there were any wood rails?  When/where were they  used?  I
thought they were iron from the beginning?

Lew near  Waco, TX
website HTTP://lewslittlefarm.com


-----Original  Message-----
<<snip>> Man, if we could come up with a Fordson  with the wood rail wheels,
we'd probably cut down some trees and run it in  the woods on our
grounds!

> <<snip>> 
>  
> I have one Fordson
with flanged wheels for running on wood train  tracks. 
> 

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