Tell one of your best Case stories

Mine, well it deals with a "2670" sitting in a highway ditch of a busy road, and a wet field. It had a broken trunion and the wheel and dual were in the wet field. My understanding is the tractor had been there for 2 weeks.

I got there with the semi, and one man. And scratched my head, thinking, how in the H__l am I going to get this on the truck. Ditch was wet, (water running, big rain) Move the truck in the direction of the highway to try and winch out of ditch, couldn't winch, cars coming all the time, hired man was directing traffic well I attempted to pull the 26 out of the ditch. Nothing worked. If I can say I was unhappy would be a understatement.

All of a sudden my Dad showed up out of no where, looked at the situation, and said get the truck off the highway, and to the side of the road. Which I did right away. Then Dad walked down to the 26, and looked at the damage, which was basically the trunion. Walked around, climbed aboard the 26, and fired her up. Within seconds he backed her up the ditch, then off he went up the deck, and the hired man almost messed. But I knew to expect the unexpected with him.

The owner of the "2670" showed up after we had it secured on the deck and said how did you get it out of the ditch. Dad said, simple, just how it got down in the ditch! He was laughing so hard he said the loader is on the way to load the wheels, ( Everyone said he was a tough guy to do business with, we didn't have any trouble with him, always paid the bill)

got many , what comes to mind is the 1st tractor pull of 4 that Pops 51 DC won ,, "that DC is one pulling sundavich" is what the owners of the ihc m and Ollie 88 were telling everyone that nite ,..I had the weights perfect on the ol gent, and the ol man never ran better,. the last 50 ft or so it had the cast iron front wheels skimming the ground , with the last 10 feet a foot off the ground and the nose was waggling back and forth getting that last inch,, and LUGGIN Power! , the ol Gent just would not give up ,, he spunout ..and beat them all by some 6 feet,.

Mine is already in the next issue of the Northland Case Collectors Newsletter so I best not repeat it here - there may be copyright issues !!

Dan,

Here's one of many. At my wife and my wedding, we had a group of Case tractors for the wedding party to ride on from the church to the reception. While the ceremony was taking place, the local Allis dealer, a close family friend, substituted a new Allis for one of the Case tractors. He also turned off the fuel on our 1070. When the ceremony was over we jumped on our rides and the Allis would not start. The AC dealer was beside himself, thinking we had sabotaged his tractor. We never touched it. The 1070 performed flawlessly. I'll have to post pictures some day. Don

I've told this before. Dad had a 70 JD diesel that they couldn't keep the flywheel tight. Traded it to Baldie Batie in Webster SD for a 400 Case Diesel. I came home from school and changed and went to the field where Dad was pickin corn with the newly painted 400 with a comfort cover on it. Picking with a 1 row Case PR picker. He showed me how to shift the 400 and went home for chores. Sitting on that quiet 400 Diesel behind the warm comfort cover had to be the best thing ever, especially when it got dark picking with the lites on.

Trusty old Case 600 with blade on front standing by in case I needed it while setting a fire to burn down an old shed.
Once the building was burning good the east wall started to lean the wrong way.
Went to give it a nudge with the blade, as I did so the front wheels dropped over the edge of the foundation pulling the tractor a few feet further into the fire, lots of snow on the ground but even with chains on the back the old girl could not get enough traction to back out.
By now the the flames are licking at the steering wheel and I know I have to abandon the tractor as the situation has become serious. (Of course I had just filled up the fuel tank)
Just as I was about to jump off the back of the tractor a little voice in my head said hit the clutch what have you got to loose.
I slapped the shifter over to second gear, hit the hand clutch and baled off the back out of the fire.
Like a tank the 600 walked right through the burning building and I caught up to it as it came out the other side covered in burning building materials, I got it stopped and pulled off the burning lumber.
Steering wheel forward was black as coal, headlights and wiring along with the logo up front were messed up pretty bad, otherwise it came through unharmed.

Dad's 38 C Case was good on the belt. Any two cylinder John Deere made the belt flop but the C was smooth as silk. One summer the C was belted to a stationary silage cutter. Dad and a husky young man pitched bundles into the cutter at a pace they could work all day. It was an easy task for the C. I was too little to handle a pitch fork so I just watched.

Apparently the young man was not a Case fan. He said to dad "I bet I can kill that old Case". He started pitching bundle as fast as he could. I noticed the upper feed roller on the cutter was at the top of its slot and squeezing the bundles a lot. The old C rose to the occasion and was far from being lugged down. The young man realized he was loosing the battle and soon quit trying. This was just one of the many times the old C impressed me.

Many stories latter, the old C now resides in my barn in good running condition. It does not smoke. The head was off one time in the early 50s and got a set of 4" Al pistons. Google youtube Ron Satzler and search for dad's C Case to see it work in the 90s.

I bought an SC with a stuck engine. A friend was over and offered to help me work on it. I had already put kerosene in the cylinders and stuck the plugs back in. He said he'd ride her and work the clutch while I towed him. Halfway out the driveway he called a halt. She might hydro lock with the plugs in if she breaks loose.... So off we go. 25 feet further on he pops the clutch, she breaks loose immediately. Have you ever seen how finely vaporized kero becomes when blown out a spark plug hole, with a headwind? He disappeared in a fog, i fell off the other tractor, laughing, and almost ran over myself. he looked like he had been dunked in kero. He had to take a shower and borrow enough clothes to drive home. That's the same SC that had no oil pressure, so we pulled the screen and found a 12" diameter paper wasp nest and several hundred dead wasps in the oil pan. Never did figure out how they got in there.