450 won't move - Need help desperately

My 450 has been parked indoors for a number of years. It wasn't running but moved fine when parked. Now the left rear wheel will not turn. You can rock it maybe 1/4 to 1/2" but that is it. We hooked on to it and drug it a foot but no luck. The stick is in neutral and feels normal. Have tried with the clutch also depressed. I am trying to load this tractor to haul it to its new home on my little farm in Missouri and it doesn't want to go. Can anyone help me with ideas. I am desperate.
Thanks so much.
Alan
 
Probably not water froze to ice in bottom yet. Loosen bolts on brake drum that side or remove and try. Maybe next pull the gear shifter to make sure it's not in two gears. If all that fails remove the brake drum, plate the inside brake disc contacts and pull the bull pinion gear and try.
 
It could be a number of things. Brake locked part way. Bad bearing that has rusted up real good. etc. So where in Missouri is it headed. I live at the Lake of the Ozarks area of Missouri but was stationed out in Norfolk when I was In the Navy
 
I bought a farm in northeast Missouri. Not a stop light in the county. It is great! My wife moved out there three years ago but I am still back and forth, being as I still work some in Virginia. The wife
living a thousand miles away is not all bad.
 
Did you try to pull TA back? If it does not coast with TA back it could be ring & pinion possibly or bearing. And your sure the gear shift rails are lined up, might pull gear shift to see. Where in VA, I'm near Lynchburg
 
If you know some one that has a large 4 wheeler with a winch. jack up the tire and put a 10 inch board under it and winch it up on your trailer. you can check the clutch by putting a good strong battery in it and see if the tractor moves when you try to start it. I suspect either your clutch is froze or your tranny is still in gear. I grew up in north east Missouri. where you going to. norm
 
Loosen the 5 bolts that hold the left rear brake housing onto the tractor casting. Whack it with a hammer to free the disks. probably rusted to the plates and friction surfaces. Jim
 
I'm probably close to three hours from Wellsville. I'm five miles south of Iowa and 20 miles west of the Mississippi. Actually, I'm not lose to most anything, which is just fine.
 
I am just outside of Fredericksburg about fifteen miles southwest of Quantico. I have already hauled two
Farmalls and two green trators and one SC Case and one Ford and one Allis Chalmers, one at a time. Just this one left. You might know it would be a problem. It is in great shape and it is going with me if I have to haul it in tiny pieces.
 
By golly, putting on a board might work. I have some ten or twelve inch boards, and a stout winch on my trailer. We can drag the tractor out of the shop close to the trailer ramps, I would think. There is a concrete floor. Maybe even put some lube on the concrete until we get it outside, although I don't own the shop any more. Thanks.
 
Neighbors 450 had a problem like that a couple of years ago. The one bull gear was locked in ice in the bottom of the housing.
 
Yea he has to be in Clark county. My river camp is south of the county line by 2 miles.
 
As I read your post it sounds like the right wheel turns and the left wheel is locked up. That tells me that there is nothing wrong with the Clutch, TA, transmission or differential. The problem is with your left brake, it's stuck. The reason you can move the tractor slightly back and forth is the backlash between the bull gear and the pinion. Remove the 5 bolts and you will find the problem. (been there done that)
 
It's a 10 minute job to loosen the bolts holding the brake housing to the tractor on that side. You will save yourself a lot of grief, tugging, pulling, struggling, sweating, cursing, trying to slide that tractor on to the trailer, if you just loosen the bolts.

A 6-point box end wrench and a hammer are invaluable to loosen the bolts if they don't come easy. Never had one that woudn't come apart with a 6-point box end wrench and a hammer.
 
Brakes froze. Take apart and give it a cleaning and will probably be ok. Might have to replace some springs depending on amount of rust
 
THANKS to everyone! It was the brake. I already had it jacked clear of the floor and had the brake bolts loose. We put a floor jack in front of the tire and jacked upward against a tire lug while tapping
(beating?) on the brake outside and it begrudgingly came loose. The tractor is loaded and heading to Missouri tomorrow.
Thanks again!
Alan
 

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