1850 on CL in Wisconsin

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There is a nice lookin 1850 diesel with fender tanks listed. Not to many pics though, the price seems fair to me. I paid that for ours and it doesn't look like that and has regular fenders on it. I don't know if anyone is looking for one, there was somebody asking about 1850s a few times. I just seen it on lunch today, I use search tempest to check Craigslist ads all over the country that's how I found it. Ill post the id # 6593746057. I cannot get my phone to post a link directly to that page sorry.

Wisconsin Craigslist # 6593746057
 
Nice looking tractor, could never afford to put enough gas in to it to start it in Canada, $1.35 per litre at the pump. Just wondering, would that rear end readily accept a diesel implant. My guess is it got low hours of use because of the gas power plant.
 
I believe that the everything from the hydra-power back to rear end is the same gas or diesel tractor. I am not 100% sure about though. So to put a diesel in that tractor you could find a good running Waukesha and it should go right in that tub same as the gas motor. If wanted to do a Perkins or Cummins the front tub, bellhousing, hood and other items would have to be changed over.

What's funny is that I have been do some research on fender tanks. I read that alot of 1850 gas tractors had fender tanks because of the poor fuel economy. In the past month I have seen like 5 or 6 different ones for sale local or online and such all gas and all with fuel tank fenders! I wonder were all the gas tractors in that size that bad or was it just the 1850? I don't think you hear to much bad about like a 1750 or 1800 gas.
 
I have a friend that runs one of each. He says you can't haul fuel fast enough to keep up with an 1850, the 1800 just sips it. The 1800 holds the record for the most fuel efficient gas tractor ever tested at Nebraska. The fender tanks were developed because of the 1850's. All the guys out in Illinois and central Indiana in big farm territory were complaining that they couldn't even work till lunch without having to stop for fuel. The block engineer that had his name on the fender tank patent lived 5 minutes from my house. They were drawn up on a bar napkin.
 
Some of the worst problems are solved over a few barley pops and on bar napkins!! I bought a set of really nice ones off of a 1850 gas, that a guy was selling he bought the tractor at an auction just to flip it. I bought the fender tanks and someone got the tractor because they had a cab for it. So it worked out, but if he plans on working it alot he maybe sorry he doesn't have them.! I am going to put them on the T we got recently.

When I look online for stuff for sale I use search tempest, anyway I look all over for stuff just to see what's out there. Seems to be in upper UP and the Wisconsin, Minnesota areas seem to heavy with Oliver Iron.
 
Not as much as they used to be, same is true for most areas these days I expect. Once in a while something nice pops up, but if it has a good price on it it's gone before you can dial the number. Nice Oliver stuff on farm retirement or estate sales goes pretty steep here, even gas tractors.
 
Our territory man always said Wisconsin had the highest percentage of Oliver's vs. the competition than any other state. I've traveled through that state yearly since the early 70's and am amazed still at how many Oliver's I still see.
 

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