PaulGrassick

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[G'day y'all. This G1000 has been sitting in a cattle station rubbish dump about 650 miles north west of Brisbane for more than 30 years. It was due to be buried with a lot of other rubbish. Fortunately we have managed to rescue it and it will now be brought home and rebuilt. It's going to be a big job, one I thought about a lot before taking it on. But it would be a tragedy to let a piece of history like this just get buried.
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Great save! Would you share the serial number from the unit? I'm trying to track units that were exported to Australia. That's the first G1000 FWA I've seen there.
 
Update on this Wheatland FWA. The tractor is now at its new home. We had to get some wheels on it so that it could be moved. And that rusty old cab has also been removed.
BMG1 - The serial number is 32701538. The ID plate was badly damaged by the fire, although I think this is correct. The engine number is 29703582. I don't know how many of these FWA Molines came to Australia. I think there are a few out there, but not many. I think that in Australia at that time, the importer only brought in Wheatlands, however it is possible that a few Row Crops and Vistas may have been privately imported. Others would know more about that than me.
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Thanks for sharing the serial number. Your engine and tractor serial numbers match up. It's one of a batch of 4 built (1536-1539). Looks like there were 8 in 1968 and 6 in 1969 G1000 Wheatland 4wd exported to Australia. Definitely worth saving as there were only 89 4wd diesel produced worldwide and 14 ended up in Australia.
 
15k+ running with decent
rubber.The fwa is worth
2500+ good find keep us
updated if you pursue
getting it running.
 
BMG1 - Thanks for your reply on the numbers exported to Australia. 14 out of 89 is a few more than I expected. Do you have any
information on when that batch of 1536-1539 was built? I would assume that Canada was the major non-USA market for those
tractors.
J Wondergem - You raise an interesting point on why they would not just sell it for scrap. This tractor was on a 28,000 acre
cattle station in a very remote area. These are cattlemen, not tractor men, so to them this was just a piece of junk, in a dump
and they wanted it gone. In fact one of the managers there told me that had their bulldozer been operational, it would have
already been buried. The scrappers only pay between 100 and 200 bucks a ton for steel, so I also think it would not have been
economical for them to go and get it.
Plowhand - I will keep you posted on its progress. It's not an urgent project for me although I am now excited to see it
through. I just had to make an impulse decision to save it and then shift it. I certainly will get into it during the coming
winter - your summer.
SWMolines - Certainly looks better with some rubber. The rears are just borrowed from an old M5. The fronts are new that I had
to get fitted onto the existing rims.
 
1536-39 were built 3/20-21/1968 and shipped 3/25/1968.
I've been able to isolate units that were exported (Australia and possible other regions) but Canadian units are not as easy to break out yet. It appears units shipped to Canada were not necessarily considered export units.
 
Some time ago, I posted a report on a Wheatland FWA that we rescued from a rubbish dump on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia. Some of you requested to be kept up to date on the project. Well the tractor has been sitting while I have been busy with other farm activities but I finally got around to putting some time into the project. The good news is that it's not as badly burnt as I previously expected, but the bad news is that there's still an awful lot of work to do on it.
I have never seen one of these tractors with so much accumulated dirt. I doubt that it's ever has a good wash. There was so much dirt around the fuel tank that it has completely rusted through. The alloy fuel tank support has also been partly melted from the fire, and all the electricals and gauges are completely destroyed. It actually makes me wonder if the fire started behind the dash and then spread to the other areas. I don't think that this tractor has done a lot of work. Although there's no way of really knowing, I base that assumption on the fact that the foot pedals and levers are all tight with very little shaft wear.
I drained both the transmission/rear end oil and the hydraulic oil. The oil in the rear end was actually quite good and didn't smell burnt. The rear axles turn freely but the seals leak oil as expected. The oil in the hydraulic tank is a very different story. It actually looks like engine sump oil. And there was quite a sludge in the bottom of the tank. The oil filter and the suction screen both look in poor condition. I've yet to see whether the hydraulic pump is OK.
The motor is stuck and I haven't got into that yet. However the water pump is butchered - obviously by someone trying to knock it off with a hammer without removing the lower bolt. The front hubs also turn freely.
Now that I have removed most of the bolt on bits, I'll start on the motor. A couple of pics show what's done and what's left to do.
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I should apologize for the quality of those photos. They were not good. I'll attach some better ones soon. Yes. there are a couple of Molines hiding in there behind the sprayer.
A G1000 Wheatland and a G1350 behind it. The Case is an 870 with a fork lift attached. It gets used almost every day. All are diesels.
Paul
 

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