15 Pics-Restored UDLX's In The 1980's

1206SWMO

Well-known Member
Heres 14 pictures of the UDLX's that had been restored by the late 1980's....Since these pictures were taken most of the owners have passed and the tractors have been sold..Several have been thru 3-4 owners by now...Several have been torn down and totally restored again..I do have the serial numbers for all of these but have lost track of the location for most of them..Two of these tractors had already been shown in earlier topics..The UDLX with no front fenders sold in MO in 2016 with fenders on it but still no bumper..

The very last picture was taken at the 1985 PGR show at Waukee,Iowa....Of course mine is the wrong colored one but thats the way I bought it.....It was the thought that it had probably been 1938-39 since this many UDLX's were together at the same time...Since then there may have been as many as 6-7 at one show..I think that I was the youngest UDLX owner in the 1980's..

My current list shows 88 tractors left counting anything with a serial number plate but I can't guarantee that its 100% accurate..I have no serial numbers for 12 on this list but do have pictures for some of them..I'm taking the word of other collectors that some tractors on this list do exist....My guess is that if we could document every UOPN-UDLX thats still in existence world wide,the list could possibly be in the 90-100 range???My pictures prove that there were quite a few survivors..I read that a UDLX was parted out in the 1980's so that others could be restored??

So far we have missed most of the ice but we have 30 hours more to sweat thru..
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Thanks for posting the pictures. I have a growing appreciation for them, more now than before. Of the 88 left that you mentioned, are those all running tractors or just the ones of the 150 that are known. I would say a good record with only 150 produced.
 
Of the 88 that I think are left,there were several that would have been tough to restore...Too much was missing....Pictured is #310594 and from what I was told all thats left is on the truck bed..He gave very little for it...I have done very little with this list in the past 25 years so its hard to know whats happened to lots of these tractors..Any tractor with a serial number plate is listed..

Of the 88 that I think are left I really can't totally document 7-8 of them..I went off the word of other collectors that they exist and some could be duplicates..One in Wyoming was sold in 1978 for $300 and I never could find out where it went....It could be another thats already listed..Another was for sale in the High Plains Journal for $40K in NEB..I have the serial numbers for 5 tractors but no pictures...I don't have the serial number or a picture for the controversial Balcolm Implement UDLX...

I think that we can safely say that we know that 80 tractors exist and that theres possibly 10-15 more..Many hours and lots of stamps were spent compiling what info I have and it will never be totally complete or 100% accurate....Some people are very secretive and don't want you to know what they have and I can't blame them.
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Hi,a few years ago I heard of an agricultral contractor in Suffolk here in the UK bought 2 UDLX in the late 1930s to cart sugarbeet to the local factory. That is all I know about them at the moment but in the summer I go to a few rallies in that
area so I will have to do some asking. Did any of you lads know that MM built tractors in the UK with UTS transmissions and UK built Dorman and Meadows diesel engines at Essendine in the county of Rutland. MJ
 
I have spent the last 3 hours going over and redoing my UDLX MM owners list...I can pretty much confirm 84 tractors by pictures,serial numbers,and by reliable people that saw them...I have another 6 with question marks and I'm sure that theres several that I don't know about..We might get to 95-100 one of these days??
 
Blain, I suppose you know that the UDLX in the second picture belonged to R B at the time. This pic was at the Freeport IL. show in 82.
B T W, that was the first P G R show in the United States.
 
Please ask about those UDX MM's..Thanks..I think that I have seen pictures of those MM's with diesel engines..
 
Only ever heard of the one in UK. Were any shipped to South Africa? Several older MM's ended up there.
 
Post for tom railsback in great falls MT. He and I saw a udlx in pieces near great falls. Tom should know the fellow. The guy had several steamers .Tom frequents Case forum. Also ask Tom about a D case with eagle hitch he acquired by intimidation !! Just a private joke between Tom and I.
 

Thanks for all of the recent pictures of UDLX's and the stories. The only one I knew of in this area got sold about 20 years ago, I don't know where it went or how much it sold for but as far as I know it was complete and may or may not have been in running condition, but it was stored in a quanset. The building was along the hightway and if the doors were open you could see it in the back of the barn, one day it was sitting outside, and a few days later it was gone. The lady that sold it, her father had bought it new and was used on there farm years ago. The stories I heard was they used this tractor to pull a small wooden grainery on a truck frame to haul grain to the elavator. They had several MM tractors. This would have been in the Ipswich, SD area and the lady that sold its last name was Henderson, but her maiden name would have been Dosch. I was just curious if this tractor was on your list? I am pretty sure that it was sold around 1995. Sorry, I have no pictures or serial numbers for you.
 
Clint did RB have more than one UDLX?? Because the one I saw in his shed at a much later date was in pretty rough shape.
MMDEL
 

If I get a chance, I will ask around a little, I know it was September of 1995 when it got sold, because I was on the way to a friends wedding, otherwise I would have stopped and looked at the tractor closer, that was the only time I had ever seen it outside of the shed and along the road. It looked complete but was very dusty and a few flat tires.
 

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