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Bob · Mar 7, 2019

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Anyone know who/where?

Most tandem tractors I've seen were driven form the back, this one is unique, IMHO!

Janicholson · Mar 7, 2019

M and 300. Seems pretty clumsy. SYncing different tractors, and shifting clutching (nah) Jim

fastfarmall · Mar 7, 2019

They plow at Rantoul,farm show, and other plow days, starting in 2015,[on the 2nd day of the show] look up on you tube, they give their name !!

rustyfarmall · Mar 7, 2019

I believe the lead tractor is a 400. Driving the front tractor was how it was done back in the day.

gab · Mar 7, 2019

This doubled up Massey looks like it would take a little orientation to run, rods and levers going every direction.

rustred · Mar 7, 2019

no way I would be sitting on that thing knowing if something goes wrong that thing would climb on top of you.

Bob · Mar 7, 2019

"Driving the front tractor was how it was done back in the day. "

Just to get another prospective on that, you mite want to watch some "tandem tractor" videos on the 'net.

MOST are operated from the rear tractor, IMHO.

DR. EVIL · Mar 8, 2019

Picture is REAL blurry when you zoom in, but I'm pretty sure frt tractor is a 400, you can just make out the spacing of the grill bars.

Two common styles of tandem tractors, leaving frt wheels on frt tractor most often were driven from front tractor. Rear tractor could have front wheels or not. If both tractors had frt wheels removed the tractor was most often driven from rear tractor.

The length of any tandem tractor is so long that making short headlands when plowing is impossible. Dad hated headlands, two rounds, Eight 38 inch rows for cultivating and picking or or combining beans was all the wider headlands he'd plant. I could plow leaving about 5+/- rows, depended on which way I had to turn. And when we put the Midwest plow harrow on the 4-14 Case pull plow it got impossible to turn left on headlands, that harrow reached right out and grabbed the fence and wouldn't let go. Would do right turns only.

D beatty · Mar 8, 2019

The front tractor is a 400. The M and 400 have a closer transmission gear ratio than the 300.

BarnyardEngineering · Mar 8, 2019

Several advantages to doing it that way, including being able to quickly return the rear tractor to normal use, by simply unhitching it and installing the front end. In fact some didn't even bother removing the front end. Also, no need for a complicated hinge and hydraulic steering arrangement. Pretty much all you needed was a way to operate the clutch on the rear tractor, and if you got fancy, the throttle and maybe a kill switch.

Overall the configuration was pretty safe, because if one tractor stopped pulling, the other didn't have enough power to pull on its own, and would stall.

55 50 Ron · Mar 8, 2019

This photo looks like Rantoul, Il show. I think this same unit was at the Red Power Roundup in Albert Lea, MN a few years ago. If it is the "Albert Lea" unit then I have a photo somewhere with a close up of the name tags.

Mark (EC,IN) · Mar 9, 2019

I'm pretty sure that rig belongs to Lukow Brothers. Here is a link to the story.

I think the picture at the bottom of the article is interesting....a Deere and an IH coupled....proof that we "can all just get along".
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rustyfarmall · Mar 9, 2019

(quoted from post at 08:48:37 03/08/19) Several advantages to doing it that way, including being able to quickly return the rear tractor to normal use, by simply unhitching it and installing the front end. In fact some didn't even bother removing the front end. Also, no need for a complicated hinge and hydraulic steering arrangement. Pretty much all you needed was a way to operate the clutch on the rear tractor, and if you got fancy, the throttle and maybe a kill switch.

Overall the configuration was pretty safe, because if one tractor stopped pulling, the other didn't have enough power to pull on its own, and would stall.

Exactly, and that is why most of the set-ups back in the day were operated from the front tractor.

rustyfarmall · Mar 9, 2019

(quoted from post at 21:09:05 03/07/19) "Driving the front tractor was how it was done back in the day. "

Just to get another prospective on that, you mite want to watch some "tandem tractor" videos on the 'net.

MOST are operated from the rear tractor, IMHO.

I don't need to watch you tube videos. I have seen those set ups in person back in the '60s.

Farmallhal · Mar 10, 2019

The Albert Lea RPRU was one of the best that I have attended. It was so nice that they had IH tractors parked at almost every intersection and major shopping area at that portion of town where the show was being held. It was obvious the entire community was behind making us IH folks very welcome, Hal.

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