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Going through some of my late FIL's book collection and finding some neat old sales literature and farm magazines like Kappers. Found an Allis sales brochure that must be from 1961 or 1962 and covers their products from the D-10 through the "new" D-19 turbocharged diesel to hay conditioners and forage harvesters. Really touting "the big stick live PTO with infinite ground speed control". What was that? I had a WD-45 about 30 years ago with a hand clutch and wondered if that is the same thing or predecessor?
The Allis-Chalmers dealer was Hershel Johnson, Albion, Ill. phone 46 (just 2 digits) and was mailed to a farmer in Mt Erie, Ill.
 
Big stick was the power director hand clutch. It had 2 speeds, Low was back and high was forward. All the d-series tractors, starting at a D-14 had it. Beauty of it is is that it is an oil bath clutch, that could be slipped for hours at a time, and never burn up, allowing the operator to creep along, baling poorly raked hay, or other similar jobs where a crop was being pulled through a machine, yet allow an easy, on the go shift upwards to a higher speed.
 
First tractor I baled with was a D14, when I started working for the neighbor when I was about 14. That Power Director setup was about the best for baling, IMHO- I remember "feathering" it through heavy or badly raked patches, plus you could shift up or down on the go where it was light or heavy.

They say the best way to learn to rake is to have to bale after your own raking job. That was me, and I picked up on the fine points of raking pretty darn quick.
 
I spent the summers of my youth(at least it seemed that way!) driving tractor/baler/wagon. It was a WD45 pulling a JD 214W with a flat rack and usually two men on the wagon.

I think I got so I was usually fairly smooth with the clutch. I know I never could have done it with the JD hand clutch.

I recall one time when in heavy first cutting, with windrows as small as the rake could make them, the tractor and baler did OK, but the one guy available on the wagon couldn't keep up.

It was many years later when I realized why there were low time WD45's available here. All the neighbors traded for D17's as soon as they were available! My frugal family was the holdout. The WD45 stayed around until it was traded for the first diesel- a new AC180
 
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