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6030 · Mar 30, 2014

Saw these this weekend thought I would try to post my first
picture.

Alan K · Mar 30, 2014

Neat looking. Don't see a lot of 1350s anymore in that style.

6030 · Mar 30, 2014

I thought so also. Like a 1000 Wheatland. What is the story on red molines?

Joe in the snow · Mar 30, 2014

The red tractor looks like a G950. I can't read the number for sure on the yellow one. If that is a G1350 it is one of five tractors built.

BMG1 · Mar 30, 2014

Red 50 series were built in 1969 and 1970 as a type of dealer promotion. Red, white and blue version were made after the red, white, black version like in your picture. Whereabouts did you take this picture? Curious what part of the country these are sitting. Sure wish you had the serial numbers.

6030 · Mar 30, 2014

Well I did get the serial numbers. One was 4530001 and the other was 4350055. Hope that helps. Red doesn't seem very common for a moline. Wonder why some one would choose that color?

Joe in the snow · Mar 30, 2014

Are those your tractors or did you just see them somewhere? That G1350 wheatland is the first tractor built out of a total production run of five tractors.

6030 · Mar 30, 2014

Tractors were at fuel stop on I 40 didn't talk to anyone. Would the red tractor be similar in thought to international having the gold demo tractors?

smoking Minnie · Mar 31, 2014

Not to be a kill joy here but didn't the 69 1350's use G1000 style metal?

6030 · Mar 31, 2014

Well I guess your right they both show to be 50 series but the back tractor looks nothing like the front. Is that because one is wheatland and one row crop or just age difference.

Howard H. · Mar 31, 2014

Thanks for the pics, 6030! There must have been some terrible mistake, though, because that trucker hasn't shown up at my place yet!! ha...

Here is a pic of my red MM G-1050:

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On the red versus yellow question, a MM enthusiast that knows a lot more about them than me, told me this one time:

"On the 1050 there has been a lot of discussion as to why some were red. I have a yellow 1350 and we discovered it has been repainted and is as red as can be underneath. On the chat board guys will argue why or what. The bottom line is this....I know a gentleman ... who is very elderly ... was a painter at Hopkins plant for 30 yrs. He said they were allowed to do just about anything they wanted with paint. He said tractors leaving the factory hardly ever looked identical 2 days in a row. He also told me that tractors going out of the US many times were painted red. Many people do not talk about this but MM sent 1000's of tractors into Viet Nam and Asia for rice work and those were mostly red....so possibly your tractor was shipped out or was made for one of those mkts."

Howard

6030 · Mar 31, 2014

Howard do you know the history on your 1050

Doug Cotton · Mar 31, 2014

Just the 5 wheatlands used the G1000 sheet metal, the row crops used the regular 50 series sheet metal.

Ray Musselman · Apr 1, 2014

what kind of rope were you smoking in Nam? The red color is called sumac Red. Was Canadian Cockshutt colors!! I have a 1350 Cockshutt which is a Jetstar 3.That was sold in Canada! The 1350 Wheatland is #1 of 5 Tractors made!! I did have #5 and do have #3 and just sold that #1 and that 950!!!! I do have G1000 Rowcrop #1.The 950 Was a Rowcrop. The 1350 was a wheatland! Joe in the Snow knows what is going on!!!

oleclint · Apr 1, 2014

Ray has his info correct about the red M-M s as he is a long time M-M owner,operator and collector. clint

Captainhookerus · Apr 1, 2014

I was wondering how someone talked you out of number 1 ?

Freddy · Apr 1, 2014

If you ask me MM screwed up with the red color. White was to ignorant to leave enough alone.

Howard H. · Apr 1, 2014

Ray, I don"t smoke or drink and I am quite a bit too young to have been in Vietnam.

The fellow that told me that has had several hundred thousand dollars worth of tractors more than me and I"ve got quite a few.

I thought a firsthand account as related to me from someone that worked at the MM factory might be interesting to the forum, since there isn"t that much activity on here in the first place. But that is OK, since I have a bunch of John Deere"s and IHs, too, and there is plenty of discussion going on in other areas...

I apologize if I somehow offended your sensibilities...

Howard

Howard H. · Apr 1, 2014

Hey 6030 - are from near Perryton?? If so, it came from fairly close to you...

Email is open...

Howard

agcodick · Apr 3, 2014

Here is one I saw at Welters in MO. He said he had 4 of them at one time.

Moline_guy · Apr 3, 2014

I have never seen a 1350, did they use the oliver trans and finals like the white 2-150 or was it all MM? If it was MM did they use the trans the A4T's used without a TA and a G1000 final with planataries added? Interesting tractor, I don't think I have ever seen 2 late MM's that are exactly alike.

MM diesel · Apr 3, 2014

The 1350's had a Moline transmission. Some 1350's did have a 3 speed amplitorc. The 1355 was the tractor that was half-Oliver (transmission)

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