VAC 11 in the Garden

NickatKY · May 19, 2013

Here's the videos Christopher mentioned earlier of my VAC 11 In the potatoes.
The tractor came from Idaho, the cultivators came off my uncles VAC 12 and the side dresser came from Dubuque Iowa.
Nick
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Case Nutty 1660 · May 20, 2013

thanks for doing these Nick I for one have never seen this type of cultivating done and is very interesting to me, sure would like to see it done in person,, aain thanks very much
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LaVern Skarzenski · May 20, 2013

Wow...

That brings back some memories. My dad used to have a VAC and it had cultivators just like that as far as I can remember. I remember cultivating corn and boy it sure got tough staying awake while doing that job!

Now forgive me if I don't quite have it perfectly correct, but I do remember lining the rows of corn up with the adjustable axle clamps and being very careful not to deviate too much or before you knew it there was a 6 or 10 ft. section of two rows of corn wiped out, just like that

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This also causes me to ask this question of some of you much more familiar with the VACs than I am. I am 61 yrs. old and this corn cultivating that I did was between 1963 and 1968 or so. After that we went to the Anthrazine. Anyway....I read somewhere here on this forum not too long ago that the VACs did not have a wide front end. I am sure it was a VAC that my dad had, and It had a wide front end with an adjustable round axle. If I remember it was a late 40s early 50s model, but the tractor is long gone now and I have no numbers or pictures. So my question is...Did the VACs come with a wide front end and does the fact that it had a round front axl, narrow it's possible production years down?

Thanks for the video links NickatKY. Lots of nice memories

LaVern

Christopher Mikesell · May 21, 2013

Yes, the VAC came with two styles of adjustable wide front axels depending on the year. The round tube wide fronts came on the late-style VACs with the newer type sheetmetal. This newer sheetmetal was put on tractors from partially through 1951 until 1954.

LaVern Skarzenski · May 21, 2013

Christopher,
Thanks for the reply. This Forum does provide so much great information and that is why I try to direct folks here.
LaVern

NickatKY · May 21, 2013

(quoted from post at 05:27:28 05/21/13) Wow... That brings back some memories. My dad used to have a VAC and it had cultivators just like that as far as I can remember. I remember cultivating corn and boy it sure got tough staying awake while doing that job!

Now forgive me if I don't quite have it perfectly correct, but I do remember lining the rows of corn up with the adjustable axle clamps and being very careful not to deviate too much or before you knew it there was a 6 or 10 ft. section of two rows of corn wiped out, just like that .

This also causes me to ask this question of some of you much more familiar with the VACs than I am. I am 61 yrs. old and this corn cultivating that I did was between 1963 and 1968 or so. After that we went to the Anthrazine. Anyway....I read somewhere here on this forum not too long ago that the VACs did not have a wide front end. I am sure it was a VAC that my dad had, and It had a wide front end with an adjustable round axle. If I remember it was a late 40s early 50s model, but the tractor is long gone now and I have no numbers or pictures. So my question is...Did the VACs come with a wide front end and does the fact that it had a round front axl, narrow it's possible production years down?

Thanks for the video links NickatKY. Lots of nice memories
LaVern

Lavern;
Here's a picture of a VAC with round tube wide front. If yours is like this one they were made from 1951 1/2 through end of production in 54 or 55.The most common year seems to be 52.
If yours had the flat platform it was a VAC-13.VAC 13's normally have 34" rear rubber
VAC -11 was single front and VAC-12 was tricycle.

Here's a picture of a VAC- 14 with cultivators.The VAC 14 had lowered floorboards.The most common year for VAC 14's is 54.VAC 14's normally have 28" rubber

Nick

LaVern Skarzenski · May 21, 2013

If by flat platform you mean the floorboard, I think it looked just like the first picture. The cultivators were very similar to the second picture with the square tube for the Eagle hitch rear cultivator and front vs. the other one just on the back. But I think there was one small difference if my memory serves me well and that was the round actuating rods that propelled the front cultivators went under the rear axle instead of over as the second picture with the lower floor boards. And our VAC definitely had the raised seat like the first picture. I think there was a green casting that bolted to the lower side of the Eagle Hitch that extended down under the axles. I may be wrong, but it seems that I remember that from hooking the cultivators up enough times. It eventually got so my dad used only the rear tool bar and cultivated a few more times because we used the tractor for so many other things, and the 3ph was much easier to hook up and unhook. That's how I remember it any way. Thanks for all the great information.
LaVern

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