Nebraska Kirk

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I brought home this 1938 W30 yesterday. The engine is loose but will need a little work like rebuilding the carb and mag, and the fuel tank needs to be cleaned. I do need to find a replacement F&H 20" roundspoke wheel and a pair of 20" tires for the front. The rear tires are 14-28 Wards Riverside. This W30 has the 4-speed transmission with a 10mph road gear.



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You'll love that W-30 once you get used to the right-foot clutch. They are a very powerful tractor - a little more than an M.

Many of the parts are the same as a F-30 and some the same as a 10-20. In fact, my early W-30 has a 10-20 block (IHC never threw away anything! Many transition year tractors are a mix of old and new parts.)
 
Well done Kirk, I have a 1923 10-20 with Ward Riverside tyres on cut-offs. What is the story with Ward tyres, were they marketed by the Montgomery Ward mail order company ? MJ.
 
Nice looking old girl and sheet metal looks good. Heres a picture of my W-30 that I picked up 30 years ago at an auction. The guy that I bid against was going to use it for a yard ornament and there was no way it was going to set outside.
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I have a pair of Wards tires on my F-20. I think at that time you could get a lot of farming stuff through Montgomery Wards and Sears. I think the ones on my F-20 are 28" and lugs look like something that would be use on an industrial tractor. This picture in lower right is lug design.
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in the super m sales brochure it shows a super m with wards power trac tires, so a few must have been sold as original equipment. anybody have a set of 13-38 wards tires that they would sell me ?
 
I remember my dad taking me to a Montgomery Wards farm store near downtown Des Moines in the 1960s. They sold lots of farm machinery there like augers and elevators and wagons and hoists and feed grinders. Farm and implement tires were sold there too. They later built a new store in the suburbs, but the farm machinery portion of the new store soon petered out and was changed over to lawn and garden equipment.
 
Randy, I have that same Super M brochure....that picture you refer to is a retouched picture of an older regular M with Wards Riverside rear tires. I'm 99% sure no new Farmalls ever came with Wards tires, but I suppose it is possible that a buyer requested them from his dealer on his new tractor and the dealer complied. Several pictures in all the "Super" Farmall and McCormick tractor brochures used retouched pictures of older model tractors because they probably just didn't have enough pictures of the newer models doing all sorts of jobs and they looked very similar anyway. More power to you to get a set 0f 13-38's in Wards tires, but I'm not sure they ever made them in that size because 13-38's didn't appear on tractors until at least 1952 and I doubt Wards ever made those big healthy Riversides any larger than 12 inch width in 38 rim diameter. Incidently, I understand your liking them...."Bsck then" we replaced the worn off 10-38 Goodyears on our '41 H with 11-38 Wards and it speeded it up about 1 MPH in 4th gear and more than 2 MPH in 5th.....with high compression/high altitude pistons in the engine it made a different tractor out of it. It was sort of a Super H before Super H's came out.
 
Well, after going through the mag I got the tractor running today!! I took the carb apart too, but it was as clean as a whistle and looked like it had been recently rebuilt so I put it back together. There are still some minor things to do like clean the gas tank. A shift rail or sliding gear is stuck as it won't shift in to 2nd or 4th gears, will have to look into that as well.
 

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