RickieBlue
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WOW.......is this thing built tough!!!
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The LINN plant was located in Morris NY. I grew up near there and remember the town barn had a LINN with a snowplow and it seemed like nothing could stop it. I reember the story about the LINN plowing one of the roads that normally wasn"t plowed in the winter (road not used) anyway there was a bridge on that road and the LINN started across and the bridge gave way, luckily it wasn"t a big drop and the driver just drove it out. They were powerful.
Brian G. NY
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Ah yes, the famous Linn tractor.
At one time, nearly every town in upstate New York had one. Ours had a V-plow and a wing on both sides.
Awesome lumbering old machines.
They were also used in the Adirondacks for hauling sleighs loaded with logs.
A guy near me has 11 or 12 of them; one of which is pretty much restored and which he has hauled to truck and tractor shows on occasion.
At one time, nearly every town in upstate New York had one. Ours had a V-plow and a wing on both sides.
Awesome lumbering old machines.
They were also used in the Adirondacks for hauling sleighs loaded with logs.
A guy near me has 11 or 12 of them; one of which is pretty much restored and which he has hauled to truck and tractor shows on occasion.
Ken Macfarlane
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The king of obsolete has one of them for cat trains.
Adirondack case guy
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Brian,
Our town highwat dept. ran one into the early 60s to plow snow. It had a dump box on the rear, a Vblade on the front and plow wings in the sides. There was a wooden sleeper like box behind the cab where the wingmen could manually raise and lower the wings. The historical society has one at the Fonda Fairgrounds. They usually run it during the fair. The day the big rigs pull, they hook it to the sled for exibition each year.It will lift the front wheels off the ground to where the track suspension bottoms and continues down the track. That one has a Cummins 220. Montgomery Co. hwy dept. bought it new with an open rear rock box, for road building projects. The gent that ran it new always ran it at the fair, but the Lynn out lasted him.
Loren, the Acg.
Our town highwat dept. ran one into the early 60s to plow snow. It had a dump box on the rear, a Vblade on the front and plow wings in the sides. There was a wooden sleeper like box behind the cab where the wingmen could manually raise and lower the wings. The historical society has one at the Fonda Fairgrounds. They usually run it during the fair. The day the big rigs pull, they hook it to the sled for exibition each year.It will lift the front wheels off the ground to where the track suspension bottoms and continues down the track. That one has a Cummins 220. Montgomery Co. hwy dept. bought it new with an open rear rock box, for road building projects. The gent that ran it new always ran it at the fair, but the Lynn out lasted him.
Loren, the Acg.
Mathias NY
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My dad tells me that this truck was last used by the town of Walworth, NY highway department. He said he remembers watching it plow the roads in winter. It never traveled very fast and was hard on the roads, but unlike modern trucks the snow didn't slow it down.
Lots of local history at this auction. Before he passed away in the late 70's my grandfather was a friend of the museum's founder.
Lots of local history at this auction. Before he passed away in the late 70's my grandfather was a friend of the museum's founder.
hawkeyeford
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Awesome truck! I have never seen anything like that. Thanks for the pictures.
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