helping get an auction ready

redforlife · Oct 15, 2014

Was asked to help get an estate auction together. I was brought in because of my knowledge of old tractors. A pretty good sound M was sold outright ahead of the sale. Loaded it on a trailor for the buyer today. That left 5 old hand clutch deeres (2 won't be sold) and a ford. Not being a deere man myself, it sure was funny driving those old hand clutchers. My left foot sure didn't know what to do. Not only that, I had to train my right hand to make the tractor go and more importantly make it stop. How in the world did anyone ever get use to that? Sorry no info on price of M. I wasn't involved in the business deal on that.

Bob · Oct 15, 2014

For an interesting change of pace, alternately drive an IH hydro and a DEERE 730 making hay, and report back about what your right hand does when you put the DEERE in reverse and need to push the clutch FORWARDS vs. driving the hydro!

big fred · Oct 15, 2014

I seem to recall our IH 660 Diesel had a hand clutch. I only drove it for a couple years until Dad traded it on a 806. I hated that 806. Loud, hot and dusty cab, our first cab tractor.

Dave Salway · Oct 16, 2014

Hand clutches are different know what you mean.
Dad rented me out to help older fellow bale 40
some years ago because he had a A. C hand clutch
tractor(don't remember model)and he was bailing
by him self. Honestly he would engage hand clutch
and load wagon as long as things went then run and disengage line things up and go again. I had trouble even backing wagons with it being use to the farmalls.

Nebraska Cowman · Oct 16, 2014

Then add a WD Allis to the mix. You pull back on the hand clutch to make it go where with the Deere pulling back is for Whoa!

Russ from MN · Oct 16, 2014

I grew up on a JD R and a IH M, never thought anything of it! But I know what you mean, I did not have a motorcycle for 10 years, but had a Honda 4-wheeler with foot shift. When I bought another motorcycle I kept trying to shift without using the clutch, and on the 4-wheeler I kept squeezing the brake when I shifted!

CLYDE MASON · Oct 16, 2014

had a ih h, a jd a, and dc cace
draging hog coop and looking for wire to hook to.
turn around to see fence getting close.

i was on the dc. hit the left brake for clutch, didnt work. grab the right hand clutch wasn't there. by the time i got the left hand clutch off i was in the fence.

never forgot that

Meangreen · Oct 16, 2014

Had a buddy make the WD45/JD B hand clutch mistake and back the JD into his vette.

I just bought an M this spring and having mostly plowed with JDs, I noticed I would get to the end of the row and pull the throttle back thinking it would slow the M like a JD. Kind of got use to the change by the end of the day.

504 · Oct 16, 2014

The hand clutch on the A and the need to back wagons was good training, I can back about anything anywhere.

IH fan · Oct 16, 2014

I've plowed, disked, baled, etc. with both hand clutch Deeres from an A to an 820 and foot clutch IHs from a C to a 560. Don't recall having a problem. Just seemed natural if it "popped" to reach for a hand clutch. Later Deeres from a 4010 to 4640 that didn't "pop" seemed natural to have a foot clutch. Also spent considerable time on 6 cyl. 1030 and 970 Cases and a V-8 1155 M-F and never had a problem with the foot clutches.
Only thing I didn't like was backing something with a hand clutch Deere... other than that, they were fine. If I were to spend a day plowing or disking again, and had my choice between a JD 60 or a Farmall M, I'd take the 60. If I had to back a wagon load of bales or corn, I'd probably rather have the M.

Gary Mitchell · Oct 17, 2014

Back in 71 or 72 when I worked for Archie Implement Co. I overhauled a B JD. We had Farmalls at home and I had no experience with hand clutches at all.

On my first attempt to start the thing it fired right up, trouble was it had got into low gear somehow. I got on the brakes with both feet, pulled the stick back and then forward, (I had not pulled it back far enough to break over), and was headed for the north wall of the shop.

A local dairy farmer by the name of Jesse Stewart was up stairs and happened to hear the tractor lugging, and probably me yelling. He hollered at me to "pull it back".

I pulled it back, it popped, and there wasn't 6 inches between the front of that B and the bench. I sure was glad Jesse was there that day. At $2.75 per hour it would have taken forever to fix that potential mess.

Paul from MI · Oct 18, 2014

After running 2 cylinder Deeres for years, I helped my cousin plow with his IHC 460. Spent a lot of time sitting still wondering why it stopped when I tapped the left brake. After a couple of hours it wasn't so bad.

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