case sc/dc stories

swindave · Dec 17, 2020

any of you guys who had ,or used a case sc or dc tractors have any stories on their use?
my father in law would always like to tell about his dc, with 3 bottom case plow,
out working the neighbors m farmall,with a 3 bottom ih plowback in the early 1950s
but the neighbors always teased him about the chicken roost steering!

now these are just stories! so lets have some fun!
whats your story?

casecollectorsc · Dec 17, 2020

As a kid I stayed home from school to help dad driving tractor in the field or when helping with silage. He and a neighbor had a C-2 Case cutter and Dad always ran it with his DC. Use to pull wagons over the pile to unload. Neighbor got stuck on the pile with a wagon and his U Moline...hooked a G JD on the U and both were stuck. Dad had to come in and unhook the cutter and pulled them both off the pile with the DC. Gave me bragging rights when I went back to school.

roy prins · Dec 17, 2020

My Dad and I would plow together -- He used the Dc with a 3/16s and I drove the Sc with a 2/16s -- just think We had 5 bottoms going around -- Made short work of a 30 acre patch -- both plows where trip bottoms with rubber tires . Dad has long passed but the memories live on like it was yesterday -- I can still smell the fresh turned dirt and see the seagulls diving for lunch --- Roy

DKase · Dec 17, 2020

Dad had a real strong running 52 DC that he had just put 4 1/16 sleeves and pistons in when a close neighbor was injured in a farm accident back in the late 60's. All the neighbors got together to put his crop in. Dad was pulling a pull type 4-14 Oliver plow and lapping another neighbors new 3020 gas pulling the same size plow. Dad had to come home and change the front furrow wheel to the heavy one to be able to steer when going through a tough spot. It had the hubs with both the 5 bolt, and 3 bolt patterns on the AWF. All the neighbors used to give him crap about the Case with no power steering and the chicken roost. To this day no one gives us crap about our Case tractors.

Nedd · Dec 17, 2020

The DC I have has a horn loader on it that was used to put up grain bins years ago. It has the long axles talked about in earlier posts. It also has the propane head. So lots of power.

We have a boom attachment actually made for the horn loader. When I was younger I was using it to lift off a husking bed for a UNI picker. I didn't think it looked that heavy but must have been because I actually picked one of the back wheels off the ground. With a narrow front it got tipsy really quick. I promptly put the husking bed on the ground and added more weight. But boy did it scare me. Might of only been a couple inches but I never forgot that. And I'll never forget the power that DC has. Someday I'll get around to cleaning it up. Still have horn loader on it.

NickatKY · Dec 17, 2020

I have several D series and like using them
These pics are all of the same tractor. It was built as a foot clutch eagle hitch DC-4. I switched front ends to cultivate tobacco.
The Amish built cab came with 4 DC tractors I bought locally.

tractorguy2 · Dec 17, 2020

I'm not old enough to have farmed with DCs and SCs even though I do own two SC's. I enjoyed talking to dad's retired customers about the old days of farming and their first tractors.

Royce was telling me about helping his neighbor, Bert Shell corn. The sheller was a belt driven John deere. They started shelling with the Bert's model A John Deere. But on a hard pull the John Deere's front end would start bouncing and throw the belt. After several attempts to keep the belt on. Royce suggested they switch to Bert's Case DC. The belt never came off again. Royce said the Case ran much smoother.

Years later I bought two DC parts tractors from Bert's son. I was told the DC's would pull twice the load on half the gas.

I heard this story from another retired farmer who's name was Floyd.

Back in the 40's we had a very active Case dealer. He would put on demonstrations through out the year. When doing silo filling demos he would stand a square nail on end on the wing of the radiator cap without the nail falling off. Floyd was so impressed with this demonstration he ended up buying four Case DC tractors over the years. Floyd started farming in 1940 and bought a brand new John Deere model A on his 20th birthday. Later bought a 46 B. I thought it was interesting that he switched to Case tractors after watching the silo filling demonstration. I tried to buy one of his 1952 DC's back in 97. He wanted $4,000. It was not in running condition.

NickatKY · Dec 17, 2020

swindave,
Where do you live?
Going by your handle I thought you may live in South West Indiana.
I live 10 miles east of Owensboro,Ky which is 40 miles SE of Evansville,IN.

Tim in New York · Dec 18, 2020

Grandad got rid of the horses and got a VC and SO, probably during the war. Only story I remember dad telling was one day he was dragging with the SO after a long night out and fell asleep. He woke up when the rig went into the creek. He pulled the teeth up and drove right back out. Don't remember if his father knew about it - but he was a heavy drinker and probably would not have said much.

Tim

swindave · Dec 18, 2020

yes, im from south west indiana, daviess county

Moline_guy · Dec 18, 2020

First tractor I drove was a DC when I was around 5. We had a two section drag we pulled around the yard in the spring to level the yard after chores in the evening. Dad also had it hooked behind his 900 for a time until he got a larger tractor. He later painted it white and orange and dualed it up. Fun little tractor and easy to drive for a short kid.

The sc was my uncles, my Grandpa bought it new, they sold it to the salvage yard, I have been trying to get it back, yard still has it, owner won't let it go for now.

Richard G. · Dec 18, 2020

Been to that county many times.
Richard in NW SC

rgorange · Dec 18, 2020

@Moline_Guy, Can you tell us the story behind that front end on the SC?

Moline_guy · Dec 18, 2020

Tractor is original narrow front which is still on there. My Grandpa and his brothers would take spindles off of 40's era cars and weld them to I beam or channel iron for a heavy front axle. They used farmhand cage loaders for making hay, feeding cattle, dirt work, pushing snow, and feeding silage. The wide front offered more stability and strength than the narrow front. The sc is in the picture while picking corn with original front, I don't have a picture of this sc with loader on it. The other picture is my uncle feeding with L that had been converted off of steel. The last picture of a pulling D, use to be at some county fairs, it was a pulling machine, I do not know who owns it or built it, but it came up for sale a few years ago, so I saved a picture of it.

Pastor John · Dec 18, 2020

Dad farmed with three tractors, a Super M, DC-3, and a John Deere B.

I was the oldest boy in the family and spent a lot of time in the field with the Case plowing ( 3-12’s) or disking. About the only time I ran the Super M was cultivating.

The DC was a much more comfortable tractor to ride on in the field (IMO) that Super M front end always seemed to bouncing up and down on hard ground, hard on my arms and hands.

Once you learned how to steer and turn that tractor on turns it was like power steering on demand.

I took pride in setting a straight furrow. I still use the same technique mowing straight patterns in my yard. Sight in a fence post or tree across the field and don’t take your eyes off it and you will cut a straight furrow every time.

My biggest thrill was Dad mounting a car radio on the fender and that made the days much shorter

karlinpa · Dec 18, 2020

HAD SC WITH WIDE FT BEST HAY RAKING TRACTOR I HAD EASY TO STEER FLIP SEAT UP AND STAND UP AFTER BUTT GETS SORE SITTING ALSO HAD DC SAVED MY BACON MANY A TIME WHEN OTHER MAKES I HAD LET ME DOWN RAN NEW IDEA CUTDITIONER ONE TIME WHEN FARMALL WAS DOWN YOU COULD HEAR THAT TRACTOR POWER THROUGH THE STROKE! NOTHER TIME BALING HAY WITH KICKER BALER FIELD NEXT TO ME WAS NEIGHBOR WITH FORD 7700 ALL HE COULD DO WAS JUST STARE AT ME IJUST KEPT RUBBING FENDER AND AND SAYING COME ON BABY LETS SHOW EM AND BY GOLLEY WE DID !BEST TRACTORS MADE!!!

Don Rudolph · Dec 19, 2020

Imagine a tractor so well built the only flaw the competition could come up with was the look of the steering.

I grew up with a D Case that was a great machine, but when I was in high school my Dad bought more land, so we needed more power. We found a DC4 from the old, retired Case/Oliver dealer close by. Now that was a tractor! My neighbor to the east, Bill, was a MF man, and also my school bus driver. He was using a field cultivator pulled by his 65 Massey. He got stuck in a low spot and waved for me to come across the fenceline and pull him out. I, being a cocky young man said, "Unhook your Massey and let me pull the digger out with my DC. He laughed and said, "I'll bet you 5 bucks you can't." So, I backed right down in his ruts and hooked on the Glencoe digger, put the DC4 in 2nd gear and proceeded to walk right out with the digger. He pulled out his wallet and I said, "Don't worry about paying me Bill, it's worth more than that just to see the look on your face." "You're a little a$$hole" Bill replied.

Bill was a tank commander in WWII, survived several tank battles and was shot in the head by a German sniper. The bullet was just a bit high and opened up his scalp and gave him a nasty concussion. Needless to say, Bill was a colorful character and a good neighbor. It was my privilege to grow up in that neighborhood.

XT180 · Dec 19, 2020

I worked for a DIE HARD Case guy that even acknowledged that a R/S/D series was called a woven wire fence stretcher for good reason when turning to the right

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Case Nutty 1660 · Dec 20, 2020

anyone who has ran into a fence with a steering arm was WAY to close before they turned,, and then had to have hit the fence with the rear tire,, I have ran them for over 50 years not once have I ever hit a fence with one,, I have caught a fence with my 30' tools once maybe twice,, I always laugh when someone posts these comments,, if the unit had a wide front on it they would have had to run the LH wheel right in the fence to be close enough,, I guess I just do not farm a foot from a fence

Repairman60 · Dec 20, 2020

Don I think you have the best of these stories.

rfdmn · Dec 20, 2020

(quoted from post at 09:41:46 12/20/20) anyone who has ran into a fence with a steering arm was WAY to close before they turned,, and then had to have hit the fence with the rear tire,, I have ran them for over 50 years not once have I ever hit a fence with one,, I have caught a fence with my 30' tools once maybe twice,, I always laugh when someone posts these comments,, if the unit had a wide front on it they would have had to run the LH wheel right in the fence to be close enough,, I guess I just do not farm a foot from a fence

I have to agree drove one as a youth never caught the fence. As far as being a fence stretcher our DC was used on an apparatus for stretching woven wire for years. You pulled the wire tight hit the kills switch and locked the hand clutch just as it died. Worked great.

CKain(MI) · Dec 20, 2020

1950/1970, Our farm was in Branch Co. Michigan. Had some 'wet' ares ! My Dad drove a IH M or 656, heavy front, would get stuck. Me driving the '53 DC could back right up to IH and pull it out !! Always felt good,LOL. Case had good weight distribution and nice big tires. I have that DC today....

BarryfromIA · Dec 22, 2020

Dad told us this story after it happened anyway He sold some one a load of baled hay in the springtime when it was muddy. He used the 730 comfort king with the loader on to pull the hay rack to the lower yard and loaded the hay. He then attempted to pull up the incline to the middle yard and through a gate where the 730 spun out in the mud. He then exchanged the 730 for the 1030 and it could not move it either next he took the DC off the feed wagon and hooked on to the hay rack and pulled to where he wanted to park it and back to the feed wagon for the DC, it was a late DC with live power and fairly new tires so it did exceptionally well on the feed wagon.

BarryfromIA · Dec 22, 2020

One fall It rained a lot and Dad had calves on feed on the west farm in feed lot that was flat or bottom ground mainly because that was where the silo was. The DC was pulling a 30 Grain o vator to feed the silage. He would fill the bunks and make a loop to the gate that he entered the yard from. The auger wagon just floated on the mud when it was empty and the DC moved on out the gate. The dog named Prince watched the gate and this went on till it kept getting worse and the 300 with a long cable was used the pull the outfit to hard ground when the cable did not reach from gate way to the DC, the calves moved home and then it was a 1 1/2 mile trip to feed silage.

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