Ugliest wreck you've hauled home

michford · Nov 1, 2020

What's the ugliest wreck you have hauled home? I warned my wife when I went for this one not to look out the window when she heard me pulling in lol.

psimmer · Nov 1, 2020

Many years ago I towed home a Minneapolis Moline K-3 Bale-o-matic wire tie baler. I had 1 acre of ground. My wife was outside when I pulled in, and she was probably thinking I fell down and hit my head to think I needed that thing.

SVcummins · Nov 1, 2020

Do you have to crawl in the back of that cab

john in la · Nov 1, 2020

1934 Ford 5 window
No motor; no transmission; locked up rear end; no tires; no hood; no door windows; rusted out floorboard.
And I was overjoyed to find it and traveled hundreds of miles to get it.

47fivewindow · Nov 1, 2020

"I spent my whole paycheck on some old wreak, and brother I could name you a few"

michford · Nov 1, 2020

Yes, it was a cluster@#$% to climb into. Cab was the first thing removed and sold off this hulk. Wife was suprised when the cab sold so fast lol.

Fawteen · Nov 1, 2020

No distributor, about half the wiring, sheet metal all bent to ****, front tires in shreds. But hey, it was free...(except for the day I spent mowing and cutting down trees).

DavidP, South Wales · Nov 1, 2020

Hi, looks a bit reminiscent of a WW2 gas mask. Not hauled one home but I think the least photogenic tractor that I've photographed is a Renault Ceres 335X.
DavidP, South Wales

Traditional Farmer · Nov 1, 2020

That is a good looking tractor.About the ugliest tractor was part of a Cockshutt 540 I had to dig out of the mud,it'd been there quite awhile.

retired farmer · Nov 1, 2020

Looks like you got snow there, I would have left the ugly cab on it.

DIM · Nov 1, 2020

I do not have a picture of the uglies ( fire damaged 880 oliver) Will a second place do

paul · Nov 1, 2020

I want to be funny and say I brought my wife home....l but I might not live through that funny if it gets out......

What is that tractor anyhow?

Wouldn’t want the cab, hardly any front glass to look out of!

Paul

michford · Nov 1, 2020

Buried under all the ugly is a 1958 Ford 841 with an Elenco front wheel assist. Here it is with the cab and loader removed.

Rodney51Cub · Nov 1, 2020

Purchased this JD A in Nov 2011. Took me until May of 2018 to get it running. An on and off project.

Absent Minded Farmer · Nov 1, 2020

Myself, everytime I get back.

Mike

warbaby · Nov 1, 2020

I hauled home your tractor's twin -a 1959 851 with an Elenco and a loader. No cab, thanks, but it did have a wiped-out front ring and pinion .....

The cats face says it all!

tomstractorsandtoys · Nov 1, 2020

It would be a toss up between my first 3010 diesel and a 5010 that I bought on a sale in Ohio. I think the 3010 would win. It was a North Carolina tractor without any paint left on it and rough sheet metal. It did have a late 3020 engine in it that ran good. It was a start farming gift from my Dad. Less than a year later he bought a good 3020 diesel and I took it and sort of stuck him with the ugly 3010. I was supposed to pay him another $1000 but that never happened unless you count employment for slave wages.At that time the used equipment business was so good and I was going to sales and buying him lots of equipment. Tom

flying belgian · Nov 1, 2020

For me it was a Hahn highboy. What a wreck. Sure ran nice though. Boom was a disaster. All twisted and bent and crooked. Wife thought it was the ugliest thing ever built. Once I had it all rebuilt and straightened and painted, she still thought it was the ugliest thing. Oh well I have covered thousands of acres with that thing and continue to use it today.

grandpa Love · Nov 1, 2020

No offence to JWA....but maybe this one! Lol.

Actually took 2 to make one. My dad loves his old Ford!

EFV · Nov 1, 2020

Plus 1 on that.

grandpa Love · Nov 1, 2020

No offence to Tracy Brown.... But maybe this one.

Or this one

SVcummins · Nov 1, 2020

There have been times that I would loved to have that cab

James Howell · Nov 1, 2020

michford · Nov 1, 2020

Nice find. Have you done anything with the ring and pinion yet? I think the ring and pinion may be blown out in mine as well.

Farmer Rock · Nov 1, 2020

Grandpa Love-That is a very interesting method you used to lift the cub in the pictures.Also IMO those tractors you pictured don't hold a candle as far as ugly to your 851 a couple posts up.I don't mean that in a critical way,I have bought much worse,and you do good work,so I am sure it will come out as good as your 901.

As for the ugliest wreck I ever owned,that would be the mf203 backhoe I bought,which I had to get running at the owners place.It is ugly but earns it's keep.

Rock

Roger Tomfohrde · Nov 1, 2020

560 Diesel with a hopelessly stuck engine that only the crank was salvageable.

Turned into this with a loader

TractorTucker · Nov 1, 2020

Probably this 46 2n that is missing all of the sheet metal except one dog leg. But the tires are decent and it runs decently.

The worst one I got home is my 49 Cockshutt 30 with stuck engine, rotted off manifold, and 4 bad tires. I didn't haul it home though, I dragged it out of my neighbors pasture. It was free.

SVcummins · Nov 1, 2020

I like that

SVcummins · Nov 1, 2020

And people thought scop was bad

SVcummins · Nov 1, 2020

😀😀😀

super99 · Nov 1, 2020

A Oliver 770 that sat through a grass fire. I thought it might be saved but crankcase was empty and motor was stuck. I’ve got enough parts off of it to pay for it and it has good rear rims.

grandpa Love · Nov 1, 2020

You are right. That 801 is ugly!!

warbaby · Nov 1, 2020

I got lucky and bought an early Dodge Weapons Carrier ("W.C.") chassis off of C.L. that had the correct 4.89:1 gears in it, but I havent switched out the center sections yet. I actually pulled the Elenco/Dodge axle off and refitted a standard 801 axle to the tractor so I could drive it around until I got to fixing it up. Vintage Power Wagons in Iowa has them off and on, but at 550.oo they are a bit pricey. They have a batch machined every few years or so because most of those old Dodge truck axles had a standard ratio of 5.38:1, so guys like to put in the higher 4.89 gears in to get them to go over 35 MPH.

Mismatched tire ratios will chew up those gears big time! The best set-up is that later model 90 degree gear box with the clutch disengagement nut on the back that allows you to put that front axle into neutral. I bought a set of free-wheeling hubs for mine (also from Vintage Power Wagons) that due basically the same thing- disconnecting the front driveline from the rear axle, it just works at the tire end instead of before the driveshaft.

If you can turn your front driveshaft freely (and you dont have lock-out hubs installed), then youve got something broken or missing in your front axle.

SDE · Nov 1, 2020

funky_g00 · Nov 1, 2020

The ugliest marketed tractor is my 37 AC WC with an IHC truck transmission used to power a winch, IHC Truck I-Beam wide front end, case SC or DC front pedestal and grill, ford Model A steering column, a generator for a mid 40's Cadillac, a seat for a john deere garden tractor and to top it off a section of a 15+ year old tree that grew around the draw bar. My actual ugliest tractor is homemade with parts from chevy, dodge,ford, david bradley, wisconsin, pontiac, with probably quite a few others mixed in to boot, all held together with some of the ugliest welding I have ever seen.

Royse · Nov 1, 2020

Well, Krispy was pretty ugly.

But so was this 640.

Chilidawg · Nov 2, 2020

(quoted from post at 22:14:56 11/01/20) Buried under all the ugly is a 1958 Ford 841 with an Elenco front wheel assist. Here it is with the cab and loader removed.
<img src="https://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cvphotos/cvphoto61412.jpg">

s that the same one you had at Buckley last year?

Pete-IN · Nov 2, 2020

My Caterpillar 20 I have for yard art. Guys like it. Women think it should be in a scrap yard.

michford · Nov 2, 2020

Nope, I had my 860 with Sherman Napco front wheel assist at Buckley that you saw. My 841 with Elenco front wheel assist is still a non running major project. They are both still ugly to look at lol but the 860 has a rebuilt engine and runs and drives with functioning front wheel assist.

D13series2 · Nov 2, 2020

Allis B, had been repowered with a Wisconsin via a subframe and chain drive. Front steering arms welded to spindles. Did have steel wheel fenders and steel wheel rims converted to rubber, plus the tall air cleaner. Bought it for the uncracked finals with the early small bolts on the drawbar plate. Orange under blue under some weird green- yellow. Sold most of it but the finals and fenders.

Lumbersawyer · Nov 2, 2020

There have been several ugly tractors over the years. One CAT TEN that was sunk into the ground about a foot from sitting so long. I dont have digital pictures of that one, But, this is a more recent tractor, a JD GP I hauled home in 2016.

michford · Nov 2, 2020

Nice job bringing this John Deere back. Don't see many of them.

Will Herring · Nov 2, 2020

(quoted from post at 17:46:36 11/01/20) Purchased this JD A in Nov 2011. Took me until May of 2018 to get it running. An on and off project.

Nice job! My favorite part of this picture is the shed extension that appeared in the meantime, haha!

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