[AT] a "few" days ago

[Bill Brueck]

An uncle of mine, recently deceased, commented just a couple of years ago that the Case Crossmotor he had worked with was one of the few tractors of its day to have enough power to really step through the work you might apply to it.  As I recall he was talking about both belt power and pulling a plow under varying conditions.  He didn't speak of it being difficult or easy to operate, but I expect it would give you a workout.  My limited experience with this vintage was a short drive of a 10-20 McCormick over some very rough pasture ground.  It was impossible to be very precise as to where that beast wanted to head and it quickly wore me out!

Bill Brueck
Pine Island, MN USA

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Only slightly better than a Horse. 

Maybe that is why so many are abandoned under a tree. 

They are kind of cool but look like a tractor manufactured by a steam engine manufacturer. Which they were. :-}


      From: Vaughn Miller <vemiller at gmail.com>
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I always thought those cross motor Cases looked neat, but I don't think I would want to spend a hot day behind that exhaust manifold.

Vaughn

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:58 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> First one of those I ever saw was in Maine, sitting in a vacant lot 
> looking sad.
> It was diagonally across the road from .... what's the name of that 
> place...
> the outlet store for the people that make those Maine hunting boots 
> with the rubber bottom and leather uppers.  Is it LL Bean?  I think 
> so.  That was probably
> 25 years ago.
>
> Charlie
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> From: John Hall
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 6:54 PM
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> Subject: [AT] a "few" days ago
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> I was digging around in some photos I haven't looked at for possibly 
> decades. Here is one from 1989 you guys might like. I managed to 
> "restore" this tractor for less than $650--I bought it when I was 18 
> for the sum of $25. It spent close to 30 years under a tree, abandoned 
> during the Korean war. We cut some corners by today's standards, but 
> didn't do anything that can't be fixed/corrected. Somehow we did this 
> in less than a year with no internet, phone calls you had to pay for, 
> Gas Engine Magazine and Wendells Encylopedia of American Farm Tractors 
> as our only resource and no other tractor to go look at. I wish it 
> still looked this nice, but as I titled this thread, it was a "few"days ago.
> Somewhere dad has a journal he kept of us working on this one, I think 
> the recorded hours were 475---lots of wire brushing, no sandblasting.
>
> John Hall
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