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Sears robuck tractors

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rlh

03-27-2007 23:57:45




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What brand of tractors and implements did sears sell back in the 1940s were there any conections between their tractors and the cars
they sold the Henry J did they ever sell a truck how about montgomery ward thanks for your help




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The Dukester

03-28-2007 12:42:27




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 Re: Sears robuck tractors in reply to rlh, 03-27-2007 23:57:45  
Sears sold David Bradley farm implements and garden tractors and Allstate tires for tractors. My Great Uncle Earl got replacement French and Hetch round spoke rear wheels and Allstate 9.00-36 tires for his unstyled 1937 John Deere B through Sears when he replaced the steel rear wheels that originally came on it. As I recall Wards sold their own make of farm implements and Wards Riverside farm tractor tires. The rear tires were often bought by many to replace orginal rear tires on all makes of tractors as they had very big agressive lugs and pulled pretty good at that time. We bought two Wards Lo-load Wagon chassis from Wards and a 2-14 pull type moldboard plow. Their tractors were the Avery type "Wards Twin Row" and later a Harry A. Lowther built Chrysler powered bigger row crop tractor, They sold a lot of garden tractors that were built by Simplicity, we had the smaller version of that too....it was all pretty good stuff in those days. Oh, almost forgot, we had a Wards "Grainbuster" 10 inch Hammermill too, it was really a good machine. We bought a lot of items of the various things Wards sold, it was all reasonable and of pretty good quality. Sears wasn't bad either really....Good American made stuff....not like the "imported" junk we see so much of nowdays at the so-called farm stores.

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jdemaris

03-28-2007 12:33:42




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 Re: Sears robuck tractors in reply to rlh, 03-27-2007 23:57:45  
Sears started selling two-wheel tractors around 1931 called "Handimans." Some of the first ones were built by Walsh with components from the American Farm Machinery Company. Sears had bought Bradley Manufacturing in 1910, and in 1933 came out with one of their own design - and it's huge (I've got two of them). In 1939, they came out with the Handiman RT four-wheel tractor. Then later, around 1946 Sears started selling the smaller, bullet-nosesd David Bradley tractors. By 1953 or 54, Bradley division of Sears no longer made implements - but sold stuff made with the Bradley name stuck on it, and in 1966 - Roper had full ownership of Bradley (no more Sears).

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David Snipes

03-28-2007 10:18:31




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 Re: Sears robuck tractors in reply to rlh, 03-27-2007 23:57:45  
My dad bought a Sears back blade which was made by Massey Ferguson - late 60's.



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Walt Davies

03-28-2007 09:27:19




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 Re: Sears robuck tractors in reply to rlh, 03-27-2007 23:57:45  
I have an old Sears Roebuck Tumble Bug scraper. It came with the property I assume the original guy bought it new back in the 40s or 50s. I remember a friend of mine had one back then used it behind a Ford 8N.

Walt



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rrlund

03-28-2007 07:33:53




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 Re: Sears robuck tractors in reply to rlh, 03-27-2007 23:57:45  
I can't remember off the top of my head who made the David Bradley farm tractor,somebody will,but the implements were from various suppliers. I believe the wagons were built by Electric,the same as the ones sold by Oliver. I think I read one time that the hay rakes were made by Oliver. So it just depends on what the implement was.



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Oldmax

03-28-2007 04:20:17




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 Re: Sears robuck tractors in reply to rlh, 03-27-2007 23:57:45  
Sears sold "David Bradley" in the late 40's and early 50's my father bought a 51 David Bradley two wheel garden tractor with A turning plow, Disc, grader blade, cultivator, cultipacker, & sickle bar, new . I can still remember him taking out of box and putting together Back then they didn't come assembled . I made my spending money plowing gardens for people in neighborhood for years with that old David Bradley . I think it was a 2 1/2 HP Continental Cly set about 45 Deg .

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Vern-MI

03-28-2007 16:37:03




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 Re: Sears robuck tractors in reply to Oldmax, 03-28-2007 04:20:17  
I had the same setup except it had an 8 H.P. Wisconsin on it. It also had a reversing gear and a differential lock feature. Sold it about five years ago to a collector from Jackson, MI for $50.



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