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MikeinKy

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I recently aquired a one owner 766 diesel with a tricycle front. I wonder how many of these were made. It is the only one I have ever seen. It is a real handy tractor. All of my neighbors think it is an odd looking thing.
 
The narrow front was an option on those tractors so its hard to know how many were made. In the service manual it even shows the narrow front on the 886 and 986 tractors i have never seen one but it would be interesting to see one. Erik..
 
We would love to see a couple of pictures of it. What would its main duties be that they wanted a narrow front end in the seventies? Kent
 
I'll get a picture of it on here later today. It belonged to an old man that didn't like wide frontends. They just get in the way. Never had a wide front and I'm not starting now. He told me, He had to special order it. He got it in Oct. 1973. It has never sat out in the weather. Still has the original paint, altho a little faded. I also have an 886. but it has a wide front and a cab. and a cub, super A, one of the last H's made, and a MF 135 that my dad bought new in 1966. If I can figure out how to add a picture.
 
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there was the 234 corn picker at that time. This way a wide frint could be but on, it came with wide front could not put in tricycle.
 
There was a canning company here that bought 1066s with narrow fronts. They used mounted two row FMC sweet corn pickers on them. The early part of the each summer they were switched to wide fronts to pull green pea combines.
 
The 766 sure looks different with the narrow front end. It sure looks in great shape. Did the original owner order it with 3 pt and TA? How many hours showing on it? Thanks Kent
 
It came with both 3PT and TA, and it works. As with some old men (read tight wads) farmers, it came with a truck muffler on it and used car tires on the front. they were changed as soon as I could get replacements. I guess he used what he had. It has about 4400 hours showing on the tach.
 
I dont know about other parts of the country but here in PA you see A LOT of 1066's with tricycle front ends on them. My one cousin actually has one that is set up that way. In his and my opinion they just look a whole lot meaner that way. If you have a Nebraska tractor test book by C.H. Wendell it shows a picture in there of the 766 gas they used as their test tractor (test #1094 of 1972) and it has a tricycle front end and a cab on it. Thats a sweet tractor you got there, some balloon tires on the front she'd look a whole lot sweeter.
 
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