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waltdavies

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I have this big old ugly tractor out back, can't find any decals and don't know where to look for serial # it has 4 wheels two big ones in the rear and two small ones up front. Can anybody tell the make, model and year and how much it is worth.
Walt
 
(quoted from post at 08:58:58 10/02/13) I have this big old ugly tractor out back, can't find any decals and don't know where to look for serial # it has 4 wheels two big ones in the rear and two small ones up front. Can anybody tell the make, model and year and how much it is worth.
Walt
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$50,000
 
Value depends. My dad always said if I was buying, likely it is worth about half the asking price. If I am selling, it is easily worth twice what I am asking.
 
I'll bet it "ran when parked" and is a "good candidate for restoration". Probably complete, except for missing parts.
 
No I am sure it was made by Sam Huston Implements and Tractors.Not sure of the date but they were fast, did well in the tractor Upland Racing Division.As far as price they wern't worth squat.
 
Maybe I should have sent a picture.
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LA Case. From the 40s;replaced the Model L; The 500 replaced the LA.SN should be up on the dash panel or vicinity.Value could be from scrap to more.Deepending on condition.
 
That's a Prairie Dominator 2000, but missing the bezel shaft, the meatley flange and the composite cab. If it had those parts, it would be worth about $390,000, but without them, good luck getting 200 bucks.
 
I always heard that there wer only two kinds of tractors......John Deere and SOB. It's not a Deere so it must be "Some Other Brand"
 
Actually that the vane type grill with the optional screen all original parts.
Walt
It been fun now when someone else comes up with one like this don't jump down their throat just politely ask for more info.
 
Don't recall doing that Walt...was just trying to help some. Dad had an old L...that is what I learned to drive on.
 
I believe that Walt is just doing a bit of good natured trolling since he knew what the tractor was before he posted the thread.
 
REALLY I look here for information. Nothing against to OP The rest of the comments are non sense Just my opinion Brad Metcalf
 
jd didn't have much that would run with an LA in it's day they would absolutely make a D look stupid, an R would be more in it's class, put some overbores in the LA and the advantage goes overwhelmingly back to the case, that engine makes incredible torque down to 800 rpm's or less but they liked gas
 
Walt,
I like your sense of humor. I read your post this morning, and was sure you knew exactly what you were posting about.
I was first turned loose on a Case L at 8yrs. old. The L got religated to the sawmill and replaced by an LA. I wouldn't even dare say how many hours I spent driving the LA. It was our prime tillage tractor, baleing tractor, and chopper tractor. The oldest uncle always plowed with it, but I road the battery box mounted inside the fender, and when the Case Centenial 4B plow hit a rock and unhooked, it was my job to lift the plow hitch up and drop it into the clevis when the uncle backed into position. Both of us got many a oil bath if the plow road up a rock and put pressure on the hyd. hoses, prompting us to bang the coupling tips on the drawbar to release the pressure. I ran the LA solo discing and pulling the spring tooth harrow.
Remember many nights when the manifold and muffler glowed as bright as the 6V lights on the fenders.
Spent many a summer day driving the LA hooked to a Case NCM and then a Case 140 baler, while the uncle stacked bales on wagons. More than once the old LA spun out trying to pull a near loaded wagon and the baler up a steep slope here in central NY. Also slid down a few hills, with the baler trying to jackknife between the LA and wagon.
When corn chopping time came the uncle took over the reigns again, and I went on forage wagon hauling duty.
the L came off the sawmill, and ran the Case J2 silo filler. In 1956 we got a new Case 300 and I hauled with it, and the other uncle hauled with the SC. I literally wore the 300 out plowing, crimping hay raking hay, spreading manure, etc.
Eventually the LA got replaced with 1964 Case 830 EH.
Loren, the Acg.
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You guys were close but look at the fenders it tells you it was made before 1948. Yes it's a 1945 Casee LA and it came out from the factory with steel wheels we know this because 4th gear is non working and that's a real bummer when one want to move from farm to farm. Someday I will tear into it to see why and what they did.
Walt
 
Later International (W9) and Farmall tractors (H) on steel had a special bolt in the transmission case preventing the transmission from being shifted into road gear. The gears were all there, similar to the rubber tired versions.
 
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