MM tractor in Old Picture

cleddy

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Wondering if anyone could identify MM tractor in picture(it is a slow moment)???? When my Dad needed a better tractor in 1968 his reasoning was the MM tractor the neighbor had was pretty good so he thought he would try them. We ended up with 3 of them. Cleddy
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hard to tell that far away but I agree it is likely a "Z" series. ZA; ZT; or ZB. ZB had a foot clutch; others were hand.
 
Some neat old photos. Yes, the MM is a ZAU, by the looks of it.

I wonder if at least one of those pictures was flipped. (negative printed backwards) Or else somehow the ZA and Farmall H got over to the other side of the chicken house for some reason.

Did they have to push that Deere out of the way so they could start? Why isn't it in the other pictures? I'm guessing the back row was two Allis Chalmers.

Was the photographer hoping the whole thing would collapse and get a picture of it falling in?

Please, no offense intended. t.r.k.
 
I tried to magnyfy the picture but only so much you can do with 61 year old snapshots. There is some lever by the right tire- close but I have never seen a ZA so can't help at all. How much power does a ZA have?? Other tractors in the pictures are 2-WD Allis, John Deere "b" and a Farmall "H" on maybe an "M". No one in the area had anything bigger than that.

The ground is a side hill but not that un-even. They pulled it down the hill way on the lower part of the building site and then back up the slope to near the barn and then back down and to the north and a little down the slope to a leveled place in photo #3 which had been burmed up to level.That building looked awlful in 1953 and it looked just the same in 1977 when we moved after 31 years. That is rental property for you.Cleddy
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No - They had to hook on the other end to pull it back down to the site. I don't think any one was hoping for a disaster since Egg sales was kind of important back then. I don't know about the John Deere but a family story was how my Dad had his WD Allis in reverse when they started and was kind of embarrased since it was his project. The old Chicken house survived until the new owners bulldozed it down around 1978-1980 without hardly any upkeep.Cleddy
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If I remember correctly, ZAs had 36 pto hp, and 31 drawbar. The lever is most likely the hand clutch. Here is a picture of mine that I restored back in the mid 1980s when I was in Vo-Tech.
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