Friday tractor on CL

Steve in VA · Jun 8, 2016

Local CL listing for "Friday" tractor. Just thought someone here might like to hear about it. I'm just passing on the listing.

https://charlottesville.craigslist.org/grd/5624989599.html

Listed under Waynesboro Virginia.

Truckpuller83 · Jun 8, 2016

Right in my backyard, I really don't need any more projects right now haha... Steve, what area of Va are you in? I'm around the Staunton area. I'm pretty frequent to the forums just don't post much.

Steve in VA · Jun 8, 2016

Live in Gordonsville but farm is Natural Bridge. I've never heard of a "Friday" brand tractor.

Truckpuller83 · Jun 8, 2016

Awesome, small world out there... Yea I've never heard of them either. Looks legit by the advertisement pic.

johnlobb · Jun 8, 2016

Friday was mainly made for orchards and I think it had a fast road gear, made in southwestern Michigan, I think...

Leroy · Jun 8, 2016

Correct and I have seen them, very simular to a Love tractor made in same area for same thing at same time frame. Truck engine, tranny and rear end. If I remember correctly a Chrysler product parts.

RayP(MI) · Jun 8, 2016

Friday tractor was made by a a farmer/orchardist in SW Michigan. Near Coloma, as I recall. Few years ago there was an orchard by the name of Farmer Friday's. Tractor looked a lot like the Love tractor. High road gear for transporting loads of fruit to market.

GBCMAN · Jun 8, 2016

Hey Steve,
I grew-up in Trevilians Va near where 33 and 22 meet. Still have the property.
Live in Richmond now.
My grandparents / uncles had a dairy farm further up the road about 3 miles at Green Springs.

Dick2 · Jun 8, 2016

Pic of Friday tractor. Those Chrysler Industrial engines were pretty rugged. We had them in our Cockshutt 112 SP combines; liked to hear those engines just chuckling along doing their job.

D beatty · Jun 8, 2016

The Friday tractor was built at Hartford, Michigan. Back in the 50s and 60s there were a lot of them in the orchard country of North western Indiana and South western Michigan.

RN · Jun 8, 2016

Oddballl site had some info on Friday and Loves- makers were related nephew/uncle if I remember right, same extended family. Dodge truck parts, engine, drivetrain, multiple transmissions and highway geared for the fast hauling of fruits and some veggies to canneries in Michigan after picking in orchards. Some had PTO and Hydraulics, base model was a puller only- could be used for plow and disc work with the normal 1950s pull type equipment- comparable to w4 and W6 IHC for that. RN

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