SC pic

Here's a pic of my beloved little SC taken at our local threshing show a few weeks before the show. Case was featured the year this was taken and I was asked to bring the SC to pull a binder for pictures when the wheat was shocked. I dropped it off and left figuring someone would hook it up to a binder and go with it. Later when I came back to the show grounds to check up on things they were just hooking it up to the binder and I was elected to run it.

It's a 48 model that dad bought in 1970 to run an elevator elevating corn into the crib. It was not running and when it arrived it was rolled off the truck straight into my old shop. If I remember right the mag was a Fairbanks off an AC and not working so I got another mag from a salvage yard and soon it was running. Eventually I put a Delco distributor conversion on it and have never regretted it. It did not have hydraulics but it didn't take me long to add hydraulics from a donor tractor. The only serious engine work I've done is to replace the O rings on the sleeves. Today it is the most used yard tractor on the farm. It starts first time over, it still on 6 volts and with the hand clutch is so easy to just get on and go. On Monday it will be on a 10" truck auger loading trucks from a bin. Once again the hand clutch makes it so darned handy for that job. Once the auger job is done it goes back in the shed where it will be eagerly waiting for the next job. Jim

Great to see one happily "earning its keep". My 43 S
is a very useful tractor. Big enough to do the job,
but small enough to easily manuver around trees

Great pic and story!!!
Its nice to see them earning their keep. There's a lot of old tractors
out there still going strong just like yours.
Nick

Thanks for the picture and background story. Sounds like the SC is an important part of your farming operation. Don

My dad bought a used 1941 sc with cultivaters and
implements in 1952. He farmed with it until 1974
when he sold his farm an we moved to town.

Thanks for that pic,Fixerupper. A nice looking SC that is decaled correct. By that , I mean there is no eagle on the rad. side sheet metal, Never was one there from the factory. Sorry to say that I am old enough to rember SC s new on dealers lots. . One thing about a SC is that they are very easy on gas for the work they do. I have a 1943 SC that came in my family in 1944. clint

I try to be correct but sometimes something slips by. The lettering and stripes are painted. I copied the old lettering and painted it back the way it was. Today I'd use decals hands down. I grew up around my neighbor's 51 SC, made the same year I was born and I don't remember there being an eagle or the model designation on the side of the radiator on his SC back in the day. My neighbor who owned it is long gone. He'd be, lessee, born in 1895, 119 years old if he was still around, but his SC is still here locally sitting in a shed. I'd sure like to get hold of it for old time's sake. Dad planted corn with it and I used to occasionally haul in ear corn with it. I can still see him pulling a 2 bottom Case plow with it and cultivating with a two row Case cultivator. Sheesh, that's been 50 years ago already!

Grew up on an SC with two row cultivators. And an RC
raking hay.

I'm old enough too and our '53 SC didn't have an eagle on it. Bugs me to see people put it on just because its in the decal set. Where was that thing used anyway other than on signs and literature? John, Loren, Tom, Melvin and others you could probably answer this one.