Best Things Come in Threes

d282

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Happy Labor Day. I put together a little display in the front yard this year.

1962 Farmall 460 Gas
1962 Farmall 560 Diesel
1961 International 660 Diesel
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Nice. I was told that the clamshell fenders were a factory "option" that was often skipped in favor of other options, and that if you found a tractor with fenders the guy who ordered it was rich.
 
D282 - What brand of cab is that on the 560 Standard or Wheatland? I read an article on Year-A-Round cab company, they not only built 100's of Thousands of cabs but made them to fit just about everything. A 560 International would have been easy for them.
Guy that farmed the 320 acres across the road from our home 160 acres had a 560 gas. Everybody not familiar with a 560 always bash them. He farmed for about 10 years, using the 560 for about everything. He had two 8N Ford's, one with a Funk OHV 6 cyl truck engine, other stock 4 cyl, a Cub Farmall to mow with. Last 2 years he had a McCormick W-9 to pitch-hit plowing and disking so he was more timely getting his corn planted. Had to hire the neighbor's boy to run it. Only thing the 560 didn't do was get a 2M-H picker put on it. He used a #203 IH combine to shell all 320 acres of corn. He'd start combining about Thanks-Giving and be done about Valentines day. First guy around to have a 50 ft grain leg elevator and two BIG bins plus converted his crib for shell corn.
Guys that farm that 320 acres now have two 16 row planters.
 
The cab is a Fibro made in Canada. The white part is removable and the roof is made of fiberglass. I am trying to find out more about it as well.

I finally found a 660 to add to my collection.

In 1968 on the family farm there was a 460 gas owned by my dad that was used on the 234 picker, the 560D that is in the yard was bought new in 1964 from Dows (it is a 1962 and was considered a hold over) run a MM 1210 sheller and field work, and a 660 diesel they called Jake, that had a plywood cab. Dad plowed everything that Spring with it pulling a Case 4-16 plow. In '68 they would have also had the 303 and 403 combines- all those engines C221, C263 & D-282 used the same oil filters! How handy would that be nowadays :)
 
THAT 660 with that cab, the wide Wheatland fenders is a really sharp looking tractor. Would be great for parades, tractor drives, Mackinaw Bridge crossings. I struck up a conversation with a guy here on YT who had a equally nice 560 rowcrop with a factory built steel cab. He worked for the cab company and pretty much built his own cab. Tractor and cab both as nice looking as your 660. He posted pic's of him clearing snow in his shirt sleeves on a cold clear winter day. He said the tractor was for sale the year or two ago we exchanged emails.
Dad had a Koehn tractor cab on our 450 Farmall and later our 4010. It had a fiberglass upside-down wading pool for a roof, Plexiglas windows that kinda slid up into the roof with some difficulty. The frame was made of 1-1/2 diameter. Electrical tubing, maybe exhaust tubing. Not ROPS-worthy, the sides of the enclosure were a woven material like the Cheap green or blue tarps, they funneled all the warm air back to the operator on those cold fall days or early spring days. I could wear about two layers less cloths because of the cab. In summer cultivating corn & beans with all the windows wide open the roof provided nice shade. Not sure what happened to it. If you do a search on Koehn Marketing on tractor cabs I found about 6 new pictures of them. A neighbor we farmed 80 acres with and traded lots of help with had a D-19 Allis with a Koehn cab that should have been the cover tractor on their brochure.
 

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