This tractor is something!!!

JayinNY · Oct 29, 2019

Saw this on tv tonight, at those mecum auctions, brought a lot of cash, any one ever work with or have one of these? Seems pretty neat for the time they were made or in there day, this one had a radio and heat.

old · Oct 29, 2019

MM UDLX made around 1943 or so. It was to do 2 chores. Be a tractor and a truck. Yes they bring upwards of $100,000

Tony in SD · Oct 29, 2019

Neighbor had one. Bought it new. His kid my dads age used it for moving haystacks Had a fast road gear.

JayinNY · Oct 29, 2019

I?ve only seen those mm udlx on tv, pretty neat, you can do your farming, then go to town in it, the say it goes 35mph? Kinda a neat piece of history!

Rich'sToys · Oct 29, 2019

The UDLX was made in 1938.

old · Oct 29, 2019

One of a few I would like to own but my back pocket says NO. I'd also like to have an Oliver S44 and an Oliver S55.

The UDLX also had room for 2.

JayinNY · Oct 29, 2019

Yes it says 1938 in the pic, I know it?s not the best
picture.

Bob · Oct 29, 2019

Fast road speed and shelter from cold/inclement weather would sure have been "pluses".

On the other hand, can you imagine how hot it was in the "cab" the rest of the year, and WAY before tractor cab air conditioning!

kcm.MN · Oct 29, 2019

(quoted from post at 21:12:52 10/29/19) Yes it says 1938 in the pic, I know it?s not the best
picture.

Not the one that sold, but lots of UDLX pics here:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Minneapol...m&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

SVcummins · Oct 29, 2019

I have one of those in my collection got it years ago when they were cheap

kcm.MN · Oct 29, 2019

These are from past Mecum auctions. Even the toy sold for more than many old tractors!

SVcummins · Oct 29, 2019

Not much cooler than a 7700 combine cab in
August I bet

coshoo · Oct 30, 2019

Touted as dual purpose- farm with it, then go to town. Problem was, you could buy a tractor and a car for a combined cost of less than the UDLX, so few went for them. Many were still on dealer lots when the war broke out and tractor manufacture ceased, and were reluctantly bought by farmers who needed a tractor and nothing else was available.

Gambles · Oct 30, 2019

A local farmer here is a big MM enthusiast and has a couple of them. They actually sold a different one about 10 years ago "just to get more space".
They take one to local tractor shows occasionally. That front bumper wouldn't last a week in the real world.

DPittman · Oct 30, 2019

The market on them must be depreciating if it only brought 129000. Definitely a tractor way ahead of its time as far as operator comfort goes except for the AC. Last count I think there are 80ish survivors out of the original 150 that were built. It is something.

1206SWMO · Oct 30, 2019

Back in the 1980's I owned the two above UDLX MM's #310552 and #310542 and they are both long gone...150 total were built in 1938...The first 25 had no cabs and then the last 125 had cabs...The value has came down some on them since their highs of a few years ago.......I currently keep the serial number registry for them and about 90 are known to exist..Theres probably another 5-10 out there that I dont have serial numbers for..

Heres a real nice open cab model (UTOX) when it was at Hillsboro,Oregon in the 1980's....It later came to Iowa and is now in Minnesota....I probably have the largest collection of pictures for UDLX MM's in their original as found condition from the 1970's-1980's..

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