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One more update on my neighbor's auction - RedMF40

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Fordfarmer

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Guy who bought the old milk delivery
truck(?) hadn't gotten it out yet, and
got my phone number from someone... so I
went over with the loader tractor and
chains this morning. It was sunk to the
axles, but we got it out. Heavy old
beast, in the rear, anyway. Any of you
recognize the brand?

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That last, lonely 10-20 McCormick was
still in the weeds. John asked me to pull
it out to the yard, which I did. Might
have been the best of them... it still
steers!
Sorry for the sideways photo..don't know
why it does that sometimes.

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I had to Google it... Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company. Lots of pictures on the web, and collectors/ owners groups, and a Facebook page.
 
Fordfarmer---thanks for the update, great photo of the 10-20, I appreciate it. I am guessing whoever bought it buys tractors like some people buy candy. He'll probably pick it up one day when he remembers he purchased it. Obviously not a top priority right now.

Nice milk truck--I like those folding doors like they had on school-buses. There were some fully restored ones at an antique truck show in Maryland some years back. They looked brand new. I just kind of stumbled on the show, didn't really know about it until that day--but turns out it was a really big deal, people from all over the world turned up to attend.

Let me know if the 10-20 is still looking for a home, but I'm sure someone will turn up to claim it sooner or later. Looks like a good time dragging the old machines out of the weeds--I would have enjoyed it.

Gerrit in Maryland
 
Built in Detroit. My grandfather used to fix them. He?s been gone since 78, retired in 63? Don?t know much else.
 
That milk truck is so cute. That truck and that old tractor were the two best things at the auction. Really neat old pieces.
 
Cute is how my wife described it, too. It
is pretty neat. If the body was good and
it only needed mechanical work, I'd have
been interested. But I don't do body
work.
 
I delivered milk with a Divco. Stand up drive. Column shifter with the accelerator built into the end knob. Stand up combination clutch/brake. If you were sitting in the seat there was a clutch and a brake and accelerator.

Yep! I am old!

Bill
 
If I were interested in the tractor I'd call the auctioneer,he'll know who bought the tractor and should have their phone number,you might make a good deal on it.Never know I was at an auction and was the back up bidder on an old tractor I bid $750, it sold for $800.The top bidder left the sale and didn't/wouldn't pay for the tractor,the auctioneer knows me he called the next week and asked me if I wanted the tractor at my last bid as the people that had the sale needed to get rid of it.It was about 100 mile drive for me so I told him I'd give $500,
he called back and said come get the tractor and pay the owners as he wasn't going to charge commission the way it turned out.Owners were real nice when I picked it up and everything
worked out as well as it could.
 
(quoted from post at 05:19:10 08/13/19) If I were interested in the tractor I'd call the auctioneer,he'll know who bought the tractor and should have their phone number,you might make a good deal on it.

TF Good suggestion but I have several calls/messages in to the auctioneer and have also talked to the property owner. Far as he knows the tractor is sold, have not heard back from the auctioneer which I take to mean someone outbid you stop bothering me. I'll try again, though. I can probably come up with something locally which would involve less money overall. Depends how much I want a road trip out to Wisconsin in a gas-hog pickup. In the middle of some money-making activities now that people often call work, but I'll pick up the phone and find out what is happening with the tractor--see if the buyer wants to make a deal.
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