6x2 TO-30

Usually_Befuddled · Jan 4, 2013

Decades ago, I used what I always thought was a TO-30. It looked like the 30 seen at the URL listed; with the air intake on the dash. It had a 3-speed transmission with the starter-switch imbedded. It has a combination brake pedal as well as individual rear wheel brakes.

It was equipped with a trip-dump manure loader, but you had to load/chain down the 3-point to get it to work.

But it also had a two-speed hi-lo gear level above the RH footrest. Nothing I find on TO-30"s mentions that; they all talk about 4x1, not 6x2. The 35's were 6x2.

So what exactly was it?

Richard L · Jan 4, 2013

As long as your lever was on the right side it was a Hupp transmission, if the lever had been on the left side above the clutch it would have been a Sherman transmission. Then there was one on the right in the rear end (think it was a Howard) that only was used when using a rototiller to slow the tractor ground speed down and let the rototiller continue operating at normal speed. I understand if you tried pulling stumps using the Howard you would wipe the gears out very quickly. All three of these were after market and none were installed at the factory.

Richard L · Jan 4, 2013

One correction the TO 30 you drove was a four speed.

Usually_Befuddled · Jan 4, 2013

Thanks. Was this crammed into the factory case, or the machine extended in length or ???

Interesting the dealer never made mention of such being aftermarket. It was two brothers who might have worked on them all their lives. (I"d guess they were born in 1900-1920...)

Bruce(OR) · Jan 4, 2013

All transmissions were crammed into the case without adding overall length with the exception of the Everett trenching transmission. That would add 10.5 inches to the overall length of the tractor as it was positioned between the stock transmission and the final drive.

Usually_Befuddled · Jan 5, 2013

My memory is highly suspect, given this was 45+ years ago, but I recall three speeds. The pattern was the inverse of what I would regard as normal... I think it was:

3 1
2 R

But maybe
2 R
3 1

I don't recall 4 speeds. The starter was via the shift but can't recall how. [

Adding to the memory issue, I was on a N, not sure it it was a 2N, 8N, etc. last summer. I was amazed how rapidly it all came back to me: Pump won't run with the clutch in, so Neutral, unclutch, raise 3-point blade, clutch, {WOW does this one sink faster than that one did..] reverse up hill, clutch, drop blade, 1st, go etc. But the Ford has nil brakes and NO "both" peddle so you soon learned the blade was your brake.

(And an hour of that made me LOVE the Kubota with hydrostatic F-R peddle. But it had the backhoe attachment installed.)

Richard L · Jan 5, 2013

1 3 S Ferguson Shift pattern
2 4 R S is for start.
If you are able to blow that picture up that you posted I am sure you can see the 4 straight below the shifter lever. I was going under the assumption you drove a Ferguson TO 30 as in your original post. I believe the 9n and 2n were both 3 speeds not sure about the 8n and if you was on a Ford I am sure they had a starter button in front of the shifter you had to push.

Usually_Befuddled · Jan 5, 2013

45 years ago, it was the TO-30. That's now abandoned in NE Ohio.

But recently at a friend's in the Santa Cruz mountains, I was using a menagerie of equipment. Included was a Ford N. (There are actually 3 of them; two running, one with a backhoe...)

The link's photos shows some of the fleet, but not the Ford or road grader.

What brought the flashback to me was how similar the Ford controls were to the TO-30 all those years ago. But yes, the N was 3-speed & with a starter button.

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