Case Nutty 1660, a word with you please

It seems we cant PM here and I dont know your email, so, I will try to be polite and talk here. :wink:

I have been reading backwards thru the threads here and assume you had a past connection with Case.

I grew up, in Wharton County, TX.. There was a lot of rice in Wharton, Matagorda and Colorado counties. And there were Case dealerships in all of these areas as well. But, the only farmers we ever saw using Case tractors and combines were rice farmers.

My family row cropped, but there was a tenant rice farmer on the place I grew up on and for years he use the old case tractors ( dont remember the model, round fenders and hand clutch ) and case combines.

As did most all rice farmers in the area. I asked Dad why a time or 2 and the general consensus was the Case tractors were work horses and their combines were cheap. At that time rice farmers usually ran 2-3 combines where most row crop farmers had 1 if any at all. So it was easier to afford more that one " cheap " Case combine. This is just what I was told.

I remember seeing several Case combines roading down the high way with the reels turning and the shakers moving because they would never completely shut down. I always thought they had to tighten the idlers up to handle down rice without slipping and they were so tight they always turned a little.

I traded for an old Case rice tractor while in High School. It was a model 800 B .. I used it for shredding and discing and called it " Old Mort ".

The pto clutch went out in Old Mort and the rice farmer on our place had a older model tractor that had been KIA parked in a field. I believe it was an LA. I took the clutch pack out of that tractor and rebuilt mine.The clutch pack in his had seldom been used and then to run an auger buggy and were in great shape. he never knew I took that clutch pack, but that tractor eventually went for scrap anyway.

Anyway I just wanted to share a little of my growing up seeing Case equipment at work. I often wonder what happened to all those eagles that sat on top of the dealerships and what one would be worth today.

I also saw you were looking for a 960 Hydro I believe it is. I would bet money that some place around Bay City, EL Campo, Lissie, Garwood, Edna or Eagle Lake, there is one still sitting around.

Hello Bobby B, thanks for sharing your past with us, we all love to hear a story on the past, I added my e-mail to this thread feel free to contact me, as to the price of the Case machines to other brands they were very competive then as they are now
case wasn't the cheapest and not the most expensive either I know very little about rice machines as we have small grains here in Wyoming, but what I have read they were big in the rice fields. feel free to e-mail me as I always enjoy talking Case exspecially combines have to go now as have a few things to do before dark thanks agin cnt tom

Am I blind or is your email missing?

And I really have no clue as to cost of JD vs IH vs Case in those days. I was mostly in the operating business end of it all, not the buying end. :wink:

sorry here it is [email protected]

Hay BobbyB dose this Case look like the one you remember as a kid? This is Big Bertha a 930 CK hand clutch Wheatland or Standard (depends on wich side or the Miss your on)and she is a work horse. Thats my son and grandson on board he helps out on the farm. Every time he shows up with my grandson he gose straite for Big Bertha everytime I guess he thinks its his tractor. I guess I have her for a long time and someday he can work her just like pappaw use to. Bandit

We still use Case tractors here on our rice farm, 2590 and 2594 they are tough reliable tractors. I remember years ago before we started growing rice the old time rice farmers around here ran 700,800 and 900 Case combines they liked them too.

If that tractor had rice tires on the back and the tall single rib tires on front it would be close.

The operators platform was lower and allowed for standing.

I bought a Farmall 300 from my Grandmother and traded it for Old Mort with a little boot. I was a Jr in High School when I traded for it and sold it about 10 years later.

That tractor and a JD 9 ' offset disc covered a lot of ground for me. Wish I still had it.