White tractors

My neighbor has a White tractor with a front loader. The Model # starts out with 5-something. It is a 2 wheel drive with a Low & High range Transmission, 4 cylinder gas engine.
Only references I can find are 2- and 4- models. Also the PTO runs continually. Can't find a lever to shut it off. Does any one have any info on White Tractors?
 
Post on the Oliver forum. The only one I can think of is a 550,but that's an Oliver not a White. The White equivalent would be a 2-44. Lots of Whites with a 5 in the model number,but none that start with it. Are you sure it's not just the loader that's a White?
 
There is a tag on the loader that states it's a White.
Also on the left side of the main tractor housing just above or behind the clutch pedal is a tag That states White motor or tractor manufacturing Works with the model number, serial number etc. So I'm sure its a White.
 
If the tag is by the clutch pedal,it sounds like it's a White 2-44/Oliver 550. After 1970,the 550 sales were reassigned from White Farm Equipment to White Construction Division and were designated as a 2-44. You could still buy a 550,but they had to be ordered through White Construction and there was an extra charge of $38 to get one painted green instead of industrial yellow.

Post those numbers on the Oliver/Cockshutt forum.

Does it look anything at all like the one in this picture?


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Click this link. It's to a post about a 2-44/550 on the Oliver forum. The model number on the tag of this one is 515. I don't know why they used numbers different from the common model number. It's like they gave them a Latin name.
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Thanks for the info. Now let me ask you how to disengage the PTO? It runs constantly and we can't find a lever to disengage it. Am told this is normal but you have to be able to disengage it except by pushing the clutch pedal down.
 
It shouldn't stop when you push the clutch pedal down. It's independent PTO. The lever will either be by the right side of the seat or on the right side of the dash. The only thing that starts and stops the PTO is that lever,not the pedal.

In this picture,far left,you'll see a little lever with a rod hooked to it on the side of the transmission housing. That's what goes to the clutch mechanism inside the housing. Trace that rod back to whatever style lever you have. If there's nothing hooked up there,you have something missing.

There's no brake on that PTO. It has either five or six fiber discs and spacers inside a drum. If anything is warped or gummed up,it'll keep turning the shaft when nothing's hooked to it. It doesn't take any effort to turn the shaft,so no resistance to stop it.

Any other questions about it,post on the Oliver forum,not Orphans. White bought Oliver,Minneapolis Moline and Cockshutt in the early 60s and merged all three in to the White brand in the mid 70s,so what you have is essentially and Oliver.


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