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Tandem Wheatland Tractors

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Rauville

01-14-2004 16:12:17




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There was an earlier post concerning "Wheatland Tractors" that started my memory bank up. Years ago there was an area farmer that used 2 Farmall WD9s hooked together. The second tractor had it's front axle removed, and rested on a offset frame extended from the lead tractor.
Was this procedure used anywhere else, or was it just a local experiment?




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Harold Ia

01-14-2004 19:54:14




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 Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to Rauville, 01-14-2004 16:12:17  
I have a book, "A Bountiful Harvest" by Leslie A. Loveless, that has a picture of three old JD Model A tractors hooked together pulling an 8 bottom plow. They look to be 37 or 38 models. Taken in southeastern Iowa. Harold



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john d

01-14-2004 18:04:16




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 Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to Rauville, 01-14-2004 16:12:17  
Back in the late 1950s to early '60s, there were several farmers in central Indiana putting tandem row-crops together. I can remember going to the Indiana State Fair and seeing 4 or 5 each year of various types and setups. A couple of years ago, there were was a tandem set of Allis WD45 units in the antique tractor display at the fair.
My Dad had a friend who did tillage work for several years with two Farmall M tractors in tandem. The front one had live hydraulics and he used a cylinder from that one to operate the clutch on the rear one. About the same time, there were also several farmers in this area who experimented with "furrow-followers" for operating a plow tractor with nobody on board. An arm extended forward of the tractor with a double-disk unit that allowed it to follow the furrow and steer the tractor. A kill-switch was built into the setup that shut off the engine if the front of the guide raised enough to leave the furrow. Controls for the clutch, throttle, and ignition were extended to the back of the plow, allowing the farmer to approach from the rear and stop the tractor. When plowing a large field from the outside to the center, the farmer could be on a second tractor in the same field. This fad only lasted about 5 years or so.

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JD 5020 guy

01-14-2004 17:20:07




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 Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to Rauville, 01-14-2004 16:12:17  
They were common around here in MT too. Our local threshing bee club has a WD9 and JD R that some farmer hooked together.



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42FarmallH

01-14-2004 17:11:13




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 Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to Rauville, 01-14-2004 16:12:17  
You mean like this?

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or this?
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Go to my webpage to see more and read up on the guy who built them.

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thurlow

01-14-2004 19:32:44




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 Re: Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to 42FarmallH, 01-14-2004 17:11:13  
Vol 28, # 1, 2004 of Farm Show Magazine (which came today) has a picture of the 830s and an article on Don Dufner..... ..



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Van

01-14-2004 17:44:18




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 Re: Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to 42FarmallH, 01-14-2004 17:11:13  
The bottom one is cool, the top one looks like a waste of a good cab for the power available.



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42FarmallH

01-14-2004 21:08:23




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 Re: Re: Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to Van, 01-14-2004 17:44:18  
3 John Deere 830's would have about 243 horsepower, given they were rated at 81 horses each. Why not have a quiet cab?



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Van

01-15-2004 05:31:24




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to 42FarmallH, 01-14-2004 21:08:23  
Thats a good point. A lot of noise, would be neat if you could get them to fire in sync with each other.
Van



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Jon H

01-14-2004 16:28:23




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 Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors in reply to Rauville, 01-14-2004 16:12:17  
They were common in ND before 4wd tractors became avalible. Many 2 tractor hitches were built and even some with 3. There is one at the Drake threshing show grounds that is 2 Oliver wheatland models hooked together with an extra engine installed on each tractor. The extra 4 cyl engines are belt and gear driven to the belt pullys on the tractors. The old blacksmith that built this rig showed a lot skill at adapting surplus hydraulic aircraft actuators to work clutch,throttle,gear shift etc.He pulled two 4 bottom plow/packer/pony drill units with it,and had electric trip actuators for the plows/drills built from Ford starters with a light cable wrapped on the armature shaft.

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