The 1030 MFD is taking on some Character

Adirondack case guy

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I started out with the idea of just building a 1030 with scratch built, after market cab that I started fabricating years ago,to hook to the Landoll Soil Master that I built. Well that did not satisfy me so I decided to raise the bar and make my toy 1030 a 4wd.
It took several attempts to build a MFD front axle that suited me I ended up building a second pair of front axle trunions to get the look that I wanted. I had to raise the nose of the tractor up. I made a new set of front axle truninon with the axle bolt being at the bottom of the trunion . The trunions are made from 1/2" square stock cut off the piece that I made the backbone that I used to make the 8358 plow.
I have the 1030 chassis the way I want it, and proceeded to the completion of the cab. I cut two wide wheat land fenders from a piece of 1"x.032" brass stock. Take note that I clipped the front and rear of the fenders even with the bottom of the hood line. I am a stickler for consistent sight lines and eye appeal.
Tomorrow on to cutting the front and rear panels of the cab, and a new extended roof.
Loren
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The last picture shows the size of the ball joints that I am using to make the steering linkage, plus some clevises that I use to make 3pt hitches.
Loren

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My Landoll 7 shank Soil Master, AKA Case SC7 Soil Controller.
 
Starting to look like this big fella. Not sure who owns this one but, I would sure love to
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That is the tractor that I am using as reference. The rest of my tractor is just visions in my head. What I think Case could have, should have built.
We really needed a good MFD back in the late 60's and 70's. Oliver, MM and later White were "whipping our asses. The red guys had Elwood and Colman MFDs and even Ford was adapting 4wd drives to their 8-9 hundres series tractors.
That is why I got with Bill Simpson and had Mud Hog/ Dyner Systems adapt a HFWA to a 1070 that we sent to them. We knew that it wasn't equal to the mechanical driven systems, but at least it made us competitive with the Green guys.
Bro has posted pics of early MFD's on Case tractors in the early 60's.
Case made a big mistake not perusing those early endeavors by companies like Elwood and Coleman.
He and I have discussed this and he said that Case introduced the 1200 and there was no need for a -1030 with a MFD in his countery, but here in the NE farmers wer not ready for big 4WD tractors until the Mid 70's. Only the biggest farmers would consider a 1470 or later 2470. and we had nothing to offer the smaller farmer who needed a 100HP 4wd tractor.
European brands of 4wd tractors like SAME were flooding the market with well built and designed tractors.
We were in a world of hurt until Case acquired DB who built utility sized 4wd tractors. We as a dealer resorted to Muir Hill tractors. They were in thee 100 hp range, and much more practical for a 80 cow dairy farmer who needed full 4WD for tillage and harvesting operations. rather than a much more expensive 1470 wit 1000 only PTO and cat3 hitch.
Loren
 
Loren , you really nailed it. Your market was ripe for a 100 hp tractor in the late 60?s early 70?s. A 930 or a 1030 with 4wd would have stold the market. I guess the folks back at head office didn?t want to listen to dealers advice, and continued to build tractors for the west
 
Elwood offered kits for the JD 3020 and 4020 tractors. Very awkward in construction and location but if you wanted to make one of those MFWD you could do so. Probably until the 50 series tractors came out Deere probably wished that they did not prize the front PTO feature which made centerline drive MFWD near impossible to do. Probably could have "ported" to one side of the transmission case but they most likely did not see the market potential for MFWD during the 1960's. Trying to remember if I have ever seen an AC 190 or 200 with an aftermarket MFWD. Oliver/White no doubt were the kings with their centerline design.
 
Trouble was the NE was the tail and the Midwest was the dog. MFWD really did not take off until the 1980's in general. The 90 series over 100 HP had the MFWD option and I think that I have only seen one of those around. The area Case dealer had enough of a following that somebody would have bought a 2590 with MFWD and not even considered a White, IH, Ford, etc. if he was in the market for a MFWD large HP tractor.
 
Loren, I have been looking for this photo, and you might already have this one for a model. But I don't know who to thank for the picture. Hopefully it can help some. I do know I would love to have one of these.
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