21 HP vs the world, poor little guy is fixin' to have a hard day in this one I think - Can she do it? :) the spark plug tester I used: amzn.to/3ALe2Av the worlds best jump pack IMO: amzn.to/3z1EK7s dial back timing light I prefer: amzn.to/3T03h3z (soon to offer our own Carb Cheater timing light)
I'm 80 years old. I'm a conscripted disabled 1968 Republic of Vietnam combat veteran. I was a crew chief on OH 6 A helicopter. Army needed mechanical minded farm boys. I came off a 1400 acre Michigan farm. My grandfather owned an Allis Chalmers' dealership in Lennon, Michigan in the 30s and 40s. He sold more combined than any other dealer. This was an exceptional video. You have a knack for explaining the working of an engine. I won the high school FFA state championship 1 year on doing a diagnostic process for tractor engines. Best to you.
Thank you for your service. I had several friends that were there around that time , all but one are gone now . (Most of my friends were older they all had 10 years on me )
I too am a vet, Thank you for your service. I live in the middle of illonois. I too live on a farm. God bless the farmers of the US, They not only feed the world, but know how to make things work,
Watched from Sth. Aussie on Saturday evening. Haven't owned a tv for 12 years. I find content like this more entertaining and informative than the regular inane programs offered on television. Thanks for a relaxing couple of hours .
Hints for stacking hay: Wagon: Starting at the deck put one in the center inline with the tractor, two either side butted against it like wings off the center one. Then next layer one at say the right side inline with the tractor and two pairs end to end crosswise against the left one, next layer one inline with the tractor on the left side and two pairs end to end crosswise against that left side one. Back to the center with two pairs of wings like the bottom set, then two pairs end to end without a center one on those, then one paired center row on top. Looks like a barn roof (works like one with a canvas). Use one rope over that top row from front to back of the wagon, cinched down with a wagoner's/trucker's hitch (it's like a rope pulley that easily undoes the knot when you want it). Barn: When you stack in the barn, we'd stack cut side up and criss-cross layers to tie the pile together. The bales kept their shape better when walking on them plus were less squishy and less likely to turn an ankle. If you have a hitch on the front of a tractor, it's a lot easier to push a wagon into the barn than trying to back one in. Ol' Allis did a fine job baling!
This stack pattern also gets you a convenient 100 bales / load.... Watch the 3 day weather forecast and do 4-10 loads a day typically for a several weeks. If I recall correctly our biggest year was around 11,000 bales. Little tractor like that will sorta work, but you've got fairly light windrows so lower production - if they were heavier it would bog down. Too heavy and you loose sheer pins of course....
@@jvin248 yep I almost commented the same good stack ties all the Bales into a unit. Hauled three wagons to the top swaying back and forth 10 miles and side hills. Would tip the wagon before you would shake one loose
A bit more tension on the bales would make them stack better too. No need to make them 100 pounds but I’m guessing those might weigh 45. A back stop would be nice too.
Another great video. I am an old guy who enjoys seeing the old stuff put back in use and watching someone who enjoys doing so. Times have changed and it's more of a disposable world today. Keep up the good work.
That was a heck of a deal. Only $300! Very surprising. It doesn't appear to be smoking. Doesn't show up in the video anyway. Nice running little tractor. Fun to see that little work horse going again.
And that was the base bid that no one wanted to even offer - I get it though, I live in farm country where actually most people don't have a use for such a little thing
@@ThunderHead289 Old gas tractors like that have done more work over the years than most new stuff ever will. I think of them like a trusty old hound, always there, always excited to go where ever you are going, even if their best interest is not there.
I am 7 years old..at my granddad's farm in Indiana..he told me.."set the points at the thickness of a good corn husk..= 0.14". never failed me with my LBC's.
Good job getting the tractor running, l use to do custom haying for thirty plus years my first job was a 3000 acre meadow grass field , all of my bales using NH. Or JD balers 2 wire and 3 wire ,wire and twine . The two ties averages were 100 lbs and the three ties averages were 140 lbs for. The alfalfa the grass were about 10 or 15 lbs lighter , that farming and ranching are for the young and strong, and doing it full time is a tough way of life ,
It's good to see you posting more videos on your channel. I always enjoyed your description of what you're doing and your humor. Love the old vehicles and tractors. Keep them coming
Amen to that! I like seeing more videos from Luke. It's good to see the old tractors and implements in use just as they were meant to be. The old AC and Farmall will be going long after the computerized stuff is junk, setting in a fence row.
Grew up running one of those. I’m 6’4” and can confirm that seat is a torture device. I put half of a split bench from a 76 mercury on it. My dad was mad until he sat on it!
Luke..I am a 1948, Galveston, TX model guy..I completely understand what you are saying..I too was a digital..I was a cad-cam machinist..I made the prog then ran the machine..I taught myself that stuff after doing a 2 year tech school gig in 1980..My granddad went from horses( 1899) to rockets to the moon..he died in 1983..he told me that I would be the first generation of the next 1000 years..He was not wrong...
I love those old tractors. They never really die anew tractor will never last that long. I love the sound too. After an emp, these babies would still be working
Hello fellow machinist lol. I’ve been in that trade ever since I graduated high school in 1989. My uncle was the farmer in our family when he wasn’t working his day job at the shipyard. I find those old tractors SO fascinating!
@@RonOrudAll that you’d have to do is replace the condenser because it’s going to be overloaded with capacity and fry. Keep an extra in your Faraday cage. 😊 I do that with an extra coil for my chainsaw.
What a great video Luke! I love seeing the old tractors given a little love and then put to work on the farm, just as they were meant to. This is by far the most enjoyable video I've watched today. I think the little AC is completely worthy of a new rim and tire, maybe both rear tires. My grandpa had a farm implement store in Dike Iowa. He sold Massey Harris tractors, which later became Massey Ferguson, he also sold Allis Chalmers. His first name was Luke as well. If he's able to look down from Heaven, I bet he'd be smiling to see the job you did on the little tractor nobody wanted!
I grew up on a Massey Harris "Pony." I learned after one experience to NEVER wrap your thumb/hand around the crank. I hope ThunderHead never endures the pain of a kickback with his hand wrapped around the crank. Ouch!
Glad to see you are saving a parts tractor! The amount of cash people spend on modern tractor payments when they could find a vintage tractor, do some repairs (instead of the loan payment) and have a good strong tractor that can do real work. I'm partial to wide front tractors. My father told stories of farmers and hired-men flipping the tricycle tractors. One hired-man flipped a tricycle on the family farm when my father was a teenager.
Since I'm a 60s kid, you learn pretty good. 😊 you'll be a farmer in no time!!🎉🎉 all of my Grannies equipment was from the 40s. When I was 9- 10,had to fix it all. I loved Every day!!
I’m a sixty eight year old retired coder who grew up in the hayfields down in Alabama and this video brings back so many great memories! My tractor was a 40’s era John Deere Model A with the flywheel crank and manual clutch. It was an absolute beast! Thanks so much for making my recovery from surgery last week a lot more fun!
I spent many summers throwing bails from behind one of those bailers. Good times. Love seeing the tractors of my youth being put back to work and not rotting away forgotten.
Replace the bulb in the trouble light with a led bulb. Better light and remarkabley rugged. Also works well in the light of a bench grinder. Great video, as usual!
Actually that is not the truth . With low voltage it is common for voltage to be present but unable to carry a load..the led light will show power where a incandescent bulb will also tell you it will carry a load....just realized you said trouble light...lol...you're correct but needs to use a safety bulb style if possible.
You should be very careful which LED bulbs you put in a grinder. Many bulbs have lots of flicker which can sometimes hide hazards due to the wagon wheel effect.
I so loved this video. I had an Allis C as a kid with the 5' mower deck underneath. Beware the rims rust out because they put water in the tires for weight. The dogs holding the rims punch thru. Also had the same seat, they hold about 5 gallons of water after a good rain.....LOL. Thanks again !!
One thing that's nice about having a gas filled tractor tire is that your wife will be able to locate you in the field based on the BLEVE and which direction the tire rolled in from. I can't believe how nice the sheet metal is on those tractors. There's no way I would have guessed that it would have pulled a running baler and a full wagon. Pretty soon you're gonna have a machine for every implement, now that's farming! Thanks for the great video!
It's funny how my own perspective has changed, originally wanted just 1 tractor that could do everything - after this auction where I couldn't keep my hand down, I soon learned that multiple is very handy. Especially when the initial investment is very low
@@ThunderHead289 Farm auctions are a lot of fun. A decent hay wagon goes for quite a bit of money around here. I haven't been to one for a couple of years but I'm shocked at how low nicely restored tractors are now. Twenty or thirty years ago they were big bucks but now the guys that grew up with tractors from the 30s, 40's and 50s are dying off. I'm an Oliver fan and I remember an absolutely pristine row crop 88 going for $4,500. That's an absolute steal for what he had in it.
LMAO!! "You ain't got no legs Lt. Dan!" I can't tell you how many times we ended up baling relatively important items when I was a kid. I remember the old man left his double barrel 12 ga. shotgun on the back of the hay wagon after he shot a pheasant (which we had for dinner that evening). Eventually the shotgun fell off, and his New Holland baler, which was about the same vintage as yours, made pretty quick work of it.😋 We didn't realize until later on that it was missing. We never did figure out where it went until around the middle of winter when we cut open a bale to feed to the cows, and found what was left.😝 I'm pretty impressed that little B model runs that baler as well as it does. In reality, I think the A/C - B actually has a few more horsepower (around 22.5) on the PTO than your Farmall C. We had 3 Allis-Chalmers when I was a kid.. a CA, a WD, and a D-17. We usually used the WD for baling, since it had enough static weight (and horsepower) to handle the baler and a large wagon pretty easily.😉
That flywheel on the baler is really doing its job, that's all I can say - as for eating things with a baler, it is indeed pretty impressive what they can find in the field and subsequently destroy - I've never had something to the level quite like your expirience though!
@@ThunderHead289 I used the same baler many a hot summer days back in my youth. We kept busting sheer pins on ours and never quite got the twine dialed in right, but still made bales. When the sheer pin for the fly wheel snapped on us one time, it was fun trying to slow it down to fix. haha Thanks for the great memories and taking the time to explain what you're doing throughout. I really appreciate that about you Luke!
Those little tractors are tough I bale square bales with my 140 farmall twice a year about 400 bales each time and have been for 20 years keep up the great videos
Something about using the tough little guys makes it pretty fun - not sure why, and is probably hard on everything but hey - life's short and it's nice to have fun once in awhile
This takes me back many, many years. That A.C. is an awesome little tractor ! And that bailer is absolutely unbelievable. How it managed THAT volume of hay just blows me away.
Great show and a great little AC doing her best to make you proud. A new or at least a good used rt rear wheel and tire will make her smile again. Dont forget to do an early oil change to get rid if the soupy crankcase gobbers...😅😅😅😅
Hey Luke Im a farm kid from illinois (not a kid for a long time) But any time I see a video with old tractors count me in... I have a real soft spot for Farmalls and Allis Chalmers. My dad had a CA when I was a kid. Im tellin you, many farmers will sing the praises of AC tractors they are LIL TANKS keep up the good content Cheers...
You and Kevin need to do a video like the old days together pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee like old style everything pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee [like if you agree]
I'm a 43 year old raised on a small Alabama farm turned mechanical engineer. Thanks for the video, this is the first video I've seen from your channel and I could hear that engineer in you before you said anything about it. Your hay raking strategy is right on, trying get the hay off the ground to get some air through and green side up to finish curing. With the bar rake you can figure out where to drive as ground speed makes a difference in how far and how much the hay rolls off the rake in the windrow. In thin hay we'll rake two throws in and one out to finish windrow. I saw the kinked PTO shaft when you first hooked baler up and thought you'd probably have a issue there, nice fix. You figured out that hay stack quick too. You're well on the way to being a farmer. Get your dad some long britches. ;) Thanks again from AL.
Some good memory foam from some sofa guy would make this very comfy. I have one of those orthopedic cushion with memory foam and that has made my tailbone way happy. Otherwise 4 hrs of driving and my back would go bad with the crappy seats in my economy hatchback.
Your video brought back allot of memories of growing up on my grandfathers farm in upstate central New York in the 1950's. We had a team of draft horses, and John Deere A. We worked the hay loose using a hay loader being pulled behind the wagon and was put in the hay barn using the fork and trolley system, Only later on did we start using Bales. Thanks for the memories.
Luke, you're a nature at the commentary and awesome in how you explained all your processes. That is probably one of the best $300 you spent. You definitely got your money's worth. Loved the bottle opener too. It's awesome to see equipment still in used today that was used then I was a kid (in the late 60s and 70s) on the farm. Just goes to show, you don't need fancy new equipment to get the job done. Hand bailing square bails brought back a lot of wonderful memories growing up on the farm. You definitely don't need to go to the gym when you work on the hay rack. You looked like you picked a perfect day to bail as the sun was behind the clouds. GREAT JOB, GREAT VLOG!
your crank starting the tractor...My first car was a 1954 Moris Minor convertable..a LBC..it was the series II 803cc engine..the original BMC OHV engine..I used a crank to start that engine often..It had an electric starter..but..at gas stations, etc..I would hop out and crank that engine to life..This was 1966..I drove that car 50 miles ..one way to college for two years..before I went to Nam in 1968..
Luke, thanks for sharing your overhaul on the AC and putting it through it's paces. You and Emily are a good combination along with your dad for making hay and putting it in the barn. Blessings to you all.
I'm 44 and grew up on a farm in northern MN. I spent many many hours on the seat of an Allis C with a 6 ft Sun mower deck slung underneath. The narrow front made for a pretty good mower tractor, but I was not a fan of the flat seat. I seem to recall a lower more curved "back rest" if you can call it that. I swear it was designed to do double duty keeping the operator from falling off the back of the tractor and pummeling his or her kidneys.
The old tire inflator from the spark plug … We had one with our tractor back in the 70’s We used it all the time Great for pumping up large tractor tires ! Wish I still had it! Great video
Its good to see equipment running that has a use. Great for hobby farming and topping off the fluid closet. I'm going to guess between the conveyor/roller hitch, tires and hinge points 16. I live in the great white north so If I got it just give the prize to someone local, or teach them how to operate the bailer. More hands make light work.
As to the spark plug tester, I grew up with the old style testers. Firstly, we plugged it into the unit and operated the built in sand blaster to clean it before applying compressed air with slowly increasing pressure whilst sparking to see if it would fail. The pressure emulates engine compression. Some plugs worked fine in the atmosphere, but failed under pressure which would have equated to engine compression, so take your Amazon tester with a grain of salt please.👍
Awesome Video Luke!!! Awesome tractor!!! i'm telling you that paperwork was accurate but it sat so someone monkeyed around with it a little trying to get it to fire and you bought it win/win!!
God bless you and your family for working together and farming the hay in. You brought back some old fond memories of my childhood in Portland Tennessee, I know how hard farming can be 🥰❤️🙏🏻
Yeah, your overlapping windrows did well. I wouldn't let it lay flat on the ground after cutting for days, rain risk, dew risk. I'd cut it and then rake and if it needs a second rake do that. More days the hay is cut you can get a sneaky night time rain.
I was really hoping to see you crank start the old Allis. In 1968 I was a skinny 4' 8" kid the first time I crank started our 51 Farmall. One bit of advise before you try it; have someone with experience teach you how to do it correctly or you could break a thumb or a wrist. Congratulations on another success.
You need to have a little more faith! Allis-Chalmers had the best mechanical engineers in the industry at the time. That same engine powered everything from carnival rides to municipal sewer systems in its day. I had no doubt at all.
Great seeing you post vids again!! And thats a great little tractor. The tires are likely filled with calcium. Great for weight and not freezing but not so great for the well being of iron rims. I still use a 1940s era John Deere Model A tractor and a 50s Farmall C. Love the old tractors. Cant wait for more vids. You and the Mrs have a great property and its very rewarding all the hard work!!!
What a fun video. Glad I came across your channel. I grew up on a dairy farm where we baled about 4-5000 bales a year. Our order of operation was cut the hay one day, rake it the next (the same way you did btw) and bale it the third. If we took too much time the hay would dry out and we lost too many leaves to make it good feed for out cows. If we did it too quickly, it would be too wet making it hard on the baler to operate and heavier to handle. Learning to stack the bales on a wagon and then in a big stack was an art. Well done! And if you slow down just a bit, whoever is dragging the bales onto the wagon will have a better chance of survival. :)
If i worked at Allis Chalmers or John Deere i would have been filled with pride. Such a nice sight and even getting the job done. Well done! Warm regards from the Netherlands.
thanks for the upload sir! found you from kevin @ JYD. We have a 1938 AC WC here in northern indiana that my grandpa bought new before he joined the USAAF. flew b17s from england with the mighty 8th! That tractor still runs like a top today! they dont make em like they used to!
On your distributor base being loose is because when they had the magneto you adjust timing where that unit is loose. You might want to adjust that so the distributor stands straight up. This gives you plenty of room to rotate the distributor.
Well, I'm glad I found your channel. I will be following along with your adventures. Well done' I love seeing the old iron be reclaimed and reused. This old A C has proven itself to be worth the effort.
That was a very enjoyable video. Your honest, sober, numerous, very satisfying. And you used a timing light 👍👍👍👍👍. Outstanding. 73 in New Hampshire. 1951 John Deere "A"
21 HP vs the world, poor little guy is fixin' to have a hard day in this one I think - Can she do it? :)
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dial back timing light I prefer: amzn.to/3T03h3z (soon to offer our own Carb Cheater timing light)
Any update on the carb cheater? Been checking every day for my 460 f-350. Thanks much bud!
21hp might be an over estimate at this point
Luke! You should work on that galaxy next screw a legacy project! Even if you’re just getting it started again.
good job Luke, you weren't born yesterday but you do have an old soul. That little tractor is a keeper for 300 bucks and well worth some love.
@@Pilot_Unknown should be up again by the end of this month first part of next 🙂
I'm 80 years old. I'm a conscripted disabled 1968 Republic of Vietnam combat veteran. I was a crew chief on OH 6 A helicopter. Army needed mechanical minded farm boys. I came off a 1400 acre Michigan farm.
My grandfather owned an Allis Chalmers' dealership in Lennon, Michigan in the 30s and 40s. He sold more combined than any other dealer.
This was an exceptional video. You have a knack for explaining the working of an engine. I won the high school FFA state championship 1 year on doing a diagnostic process for tractor engines. Best to you.
Thank you for your service. I had several friends that were there around that time , all but one are gone now . (Most of my friends were older they all had 10 years on me )
Thank you for your service!! You are an exceptional man and we need more like you today.....
Thank you for your service sir.
I knew a fella years ago who was a crew chief on a bomber in WWII. He had a lot of stories. Sure you do also.
I too am a vet, Thank you for your service. I live in the middle of illonois. I too live on a farm. God bless the farmers of the US, They not only feed the world, but know how to make things work,
Good video thanks
You got a nice farm and a good woman plus a dad that will help.
In my opinion that is priceless.
Couldn't agree more
Haven't bailed hay in decades.. yet watching that made me itch in the usual places.
I sneezed a few times too.
Round bails now days and they stopped using wire a long time ago!
Watched from Sth. Aussie on Saturday evening.
Haven't owned a tv for 12 years.
I find content like this more entertaining and informative than the regular inane programs offered on television.
Thanks for a relaxing couple of hours .
Hints for stacking hay: Wagon: Starting at the deck put one in the center inline with the tractor, two either side butted against it like wings off the center one. Then next layer one at say the right side inline with the tractor and two pairs end to end crosswise against the left one, next layer one inline with the tractor on the left side and two pairs end to end crosswise against that left side one. Back to the center with two pairs of wings like the bottom set, then two pairs end to end without a center one on those, then one paired center row on top. Looks like a barn roof (works like one with a canvas). Use one rope over that top row from front to back of the wagon, cinched down with a wagoner's/trucker's hitch (it's like a rope pulley that easily undoes the knot when you want it).
Barn: When you stack in the barn, we'd stack cut side up and criss-cross layers to tie the pile together. The bales kept their shape better when walking on them plus were less squishy and less likely to turn an ankle.
If you have a hitch on the front of a tractor, it's a lot easier to push a wagon into the barn than trying to back one in.
Ol' Allis did a fine job baling!
The front hitch is a multi-purpose tool.
This stack pattern also gets you a convenient 100 bales / load.... Watch the 3 day weather forecast and do 4-10 loads a day typically for a several weeks. If I recall correctly our biggest year was around 11,000 bales.
Little tractor like that will sorta work, but you've got fairly light windrows so lower production - if they were heavier it would bog down. Too heavy and you loose sheer pins of course....
@@jvin248 yep I almost commented the same good stack ties all the Bales into a unit. Hauled three wagons to the top swaying back and forth 10 miles and side hills. Would tip the wagon before you would shake one loose
A bit more tension on the bales would make them stack better too. No need to make them 100 pounds but I’m guessing those might weigh 45. A back stop would be nice too.
Hearing how you enjoy the satisfaction of restoring older machinery is very refreshing. I hope that more young guys follow your lead.
I hate computers. nice to see old school runn so smooth. keep going Luke.
Your wife is a keeper. You two will be teaching your kids how to drive and maintain that old AC and your 65 "Legacy" Galaxy some day. Great videos!
Another great video. I am an old guy who enjoys seeing the old stuff put back in use and watching someone who enjoys doing so. Times have changed and it's more of a disposable world today. Keep up the good work.
i TOO LOVE TO SEE THE OLD TRACTORS WORK AGAIN. I THINK THEY LIKE TO WORK. THEY ALWAY SEEM TO SMILE WHEN THEY SEE THE FEILD AGAIN
Thanks for sharing a part of your life with us, seeing the old equipment working reminds me of my youth, I really enjoy the longer videos.
That was a heck of a deal. Only $300! Very surprising. It doesn't appear to be smoking. Doesn't show up in the video anyway. Nice running little tractor. Fun to see that little work horse going again.
And that was the base bid that no one wanted to even offer - I get it though, I live in farm country where actually most people don't have a use for such a little thing
@@ThunderHead289 Old gas tractors like that have done more work over the years than most new stuff ever will. I think of them like a trusty old hound, always there, always excited to go where ever you are going, even if their best interest is not there.
I am 7 years old..at my granddad's farm in Indiana..he told me.."set the points at the thickness of a good corn husk..= 0.14". never failed me with my LBC's.
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Matchbook cover was our go/no-go guage
I was taught to use the back of a matchbook. Been working on Volkswagens for 30 years for me.
Matchbook or business card was always rule of thumb for us... Points and magneto coils...
Good job getting the tractor running, l use to do custom haying for thirty plus years my first job was a 3000 acre meadow grass field , all of my bales using NH. Or JD balers 2 wire and 3 wire ,wire and twine . The two ties averages were 100 lbs and the three ties averages were 140 lbs for. The alfalfa the grass were about 10 or 15 lbs lighter , that farming and ranching are for the young and strong, and doing it full time is a tough way of life ,
Don't ever lose that woman.
He's a very lucky man
Luke you and Kevin need to do a collaboration again for old times sake. I have been waiting for a F250 or satellite style revival again
It's good to see you posting more videos on your channel. I always enjoyed your description of what you're doing and your humor. Love the old vehicles and tractors. Keep them coming
Amen to that! I like seeing more videos from Luke. It's good to see the old tractors and implements in use just as they were meant to be. The old AC and Farmall will be going long after the computerized stuff is junk, setting in a fence row.
$300 Well Spent Sir! Bravo!
Grew up running one of those. I’m 6’4” and can confirm that seat is a torture device. I put half of a split bench from a 76 mercury on it. My dad was mad until he sat on it!
Luke..I am a 1948, Galveston, TX model guy..I completely understand what you are saying..I too was a digital..I was a cad-cam machinist..I made the prog then ran the machine..I taught myself that stuff after doing a 2 year tech school gig in 1980..My granddad went from horses( 1899) to rockets to the moon..he died in 1983..he told me that I would be the first generation of the next 1000 years..He was not wrong...
I love those old tractors. They never really die anew tractor will never last that long. I love the sound too. After an emp, these babies would still be working
Hello fellow machinist lol. I’ve been in that trade ever since I graduated high school in 1989. My uncle was the farmer in our family when he wasn’t working his day job at the shipyard. I find those old tractors SO fascinating!
Luke! I am your father! 🤣🫡🇺🇸
@@RonOrudAll that you’d have to do is replace the condenser because it’s going to be overloaded with capacity and fry. Keep an extra in your Faraday cage. 😊 I do that with an extra coil for my chainsaw.
What you need is a dog for your videos! That was a great video of how to make old things work again!!
What a great video Luke! I love seeing the old tractors given a little love and then put to work on the farm, just as they were meant to. This is by far the most enjoyable video I've watched today. I think the little AC is completely worthy of a new rim and tire, maybe both rear tires.
My grandpa had a farm implement store in Dike Iowa. He sold Massey Harris tractors, which later became Massey Ferguson, he also sold Allis Chalmers. His first name was Luke as well. If he's able to look down from Heaven, I bet he'd be smiling to see the job you did on the little tractor nobody wanted!
I grew up on a Massey Harris "Pony." I learned after one experience to NEVER wrap your thumb/hand around the crank. I hope ThunderHead never endures the pain of a kickback with his hand wrapped around the crank. Ouch!
Glad to see you are saving a parts tractor! The amount of cash people spend on modern tractor payments when they could find a vintage tractor, do some repairs (instead of the loan payment) and have a good strong tractor that can do real work.
I'm partial to wide front tractors. My father told stories of farmers and hired-men flipping the tricycle tractors. One hired-man flipped a tricycle on the family farm when my father was a teenager.
Since I'm a 60s kid, you learn pretty good. 😊 you'll be a farmer in no time!!🎉🎉 all of my Grannies equipment was from the 40s. When I was 9- 10,had to fix it all. I loved Every day!!
I’m a sixty eight year old retired coder who grew up in the hayfields down in Alabama and this video brings back so many great memories! My tractor was a 40’s era John Deere Model A with the flywheel crank and manual clutch. It was an absolute beast! Thanks so much for making my recovery from surgery last week a lot more fun!
Here's to a speedy recovery my friend
Bravo! You gave the old AC some TLC and now it will probably outlast all of us watching it 'making hay while the sun shines'.
Love seeing people out having fun with old equipment. Glad you noticed the pto shaft. I was thinking the same thing
Glad I didn't leave it that way, losing a u joint would have put a quick end to this round of hay. It poured the entire night that day
I spent many summers throwing bails from behind one of those bailers. Good times. Love seeing the tractors of my youth being put back to work and not rotting away forgotten.
Replace the bulb in the trouble light with a led bulb. Better light and remarkabley rugged.
Also works well in the light of a bench grinder.
Great video, as usual!
Actually that is not the truth . With low voltage it is common for voltage to be present but unable to carry a load..the led light will show power where a incandescent bulb will also tell you it will carry a load....just realized you said trouble light...lol...you're correct but needs to use a safety bulb style if possible.
You should be very careful which LED bulbs you put in a grinder. Many bulbs have lots of flicker which can sometimes hide hazards due to the wagon wheel effect.
I so loved this video. I had an Allis C as a kid with the 5' mower deck underneath. Beware the rims rust out because they put water in the tires for weight. The dogs holding the rims punch thru. Also had the same seat, they hold about 5 gallons of water after a good rain.....LOL. Thanks again !!
Farther north we used calcium chlorine in the tires for weight, which is more corrosive than water. Most old tractors have rusted out rims
Great work Luke, I spent my childhood doing this stuff with dad. Happy memories!
One thing that's nice about having a gas filled tractor tire is that your wife will be able to locate you in the field based on the BLEVE and which direction the tire rolled in from. I can't believe how nice the sheet metal is on those tractors. There's no way I would have guessed that it would have pulled a running baler and a full wagon. Pretty soon you're gonna have a machine for every implement, now that's farming! Thanks for the great video!
It's funny how my own perspective has changed, originally wanted just 1 tractor that could do everything - after this auction where I couldn't keep my hand down, I soon learned that multiple is very handy.
Especially when the initial investment is very low
And it is nice to have a fall back tractor for those times you'd rather not be up at 3am working on the machinery.
@@ThunderHead289 Farm auctions are a lot of fun. A decent hay wagon goes for quite a bit of money around here. I haven't been to one for a couple of years but I'm shocked at how low nicely restored tractors are now. Twenty or thirty years ago they were big bucks but now the guys that grew up with tractors from the 30s, 40's and 50s are dying off. I'm an Oliver fan and I remember an absolutely pristine row crop 88 going for $4,500. That's an absolute steal for what he had in it.
@@ThunderHead289 Also, you can now hold tractor-jousting tournaments. win-win.
You and Marty T are great fun to watch. Thanks.
LMAO!! "You ain't got no legs Lt. Dan!" I can't tell you how many times we ended up baling relatively important items when I was a kid. I remember the old man left his double barrel 12 ga. shotgun on the back of the hay wagon after he shot a pheasant (which we had for dinner that evening). Eventually the shotgun fell off, and his New Holland baler, which was about the same vintage as yours, made pretty quick work of it.😋 We didn't realize until later on that it was missing. We never did figure out where it went until around the middle of winter when we cut open a bale to feed to the cows, and found what was left.😝 I'm pretty impressed that little B model runs that baler as well as it does. In reality, I think the A/C - B actually has a few more horsepower (around 22.5) on the PTO than your Farmall C. We had 3 Allis-Chalmers when I was a kid.. a CA, a WD, and a D-17. We usually used the WD for baling, since it had enough static weight (and horsepower) to handle the baler and a large wagon pretty easily.😉
That flywheel on the baler is really doing its job, that's all I can say - as for eating things with a baler, it is indeed pretty impressive what they can find in the field and subsequently destroy - I've never had something to the level quite like your expirience though!
@@ThunderHead289 I used the same baler many a hot summer days back in my youth. We kept busting sheer pins on ours and never quite got the twine dialed in right, but still made bales. When the sheer pin for the fly wheel snapped on us one time, it was fun trying to slow it down to fix. haha Thanks for the great memories and taking the time to explain what you're doing throughout. I really appreciate that about you Luke!
Those little tractors are tough I bale square bales with my 140 farmall twice a year about 400 bales each time and have been for 20 years keep up the great videos
Something about using the tough little guys makes it pretty fun - not sure why, and is probably hard on everything but hey - life's short and it's nice to have fun once in awhile
What baler are you running?
This takes me back many, many years. That A.C. is an awesome little tractor ! And that bailer is absolutely unbelievable. How it managed THAT volume of hay just blows me away.
Great show and a great little AC doing her best to make you proud. A new or at least a good used rt rear wheel and tire will make her smile again. Dont forget to do an early oil change to get rid if the soupy crankcase gobbers...😅😅😅😅
Hey Luke Im a farm kid from illinois (not a kid for a long time) But any time I see a video with old tractors count me in... I have a real soft spot for Farmalls and Allis Chalmers. My dad had a CA when I was a kid. Im tellin you, many farmers will sing the praises of AC tractors they are LIL TANKS keep up the good content Cheers...
You and Kevin need to do a video like the old days together pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee like old style everything pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee [like if you agree]
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@@pauly623get bent
Absolutely loved it. Thanks Luke. If you see a MF 135 diesel, grab it!
Good tractor, especially for $300. Even better when a pretty girl in bib overalls is running it!!
Not going to lie, that spark plug tester is oddly satisfying to watch and tickles a portion of my lizard brain.
I really enjoy these videos. Particularly, your knowledge pertaining to ignition and timing have helped me more than a time or two.
I'm a 43 year old raised on a small Alabama farm turned mechanical engineer. Thanks for the video, this is the first video I've seen from your channel and I could hear that engineer in you before you said anything about it. Your hay raking strategy is right on, trying get the hay off the ground to get some air through and green side up to finish curing. With the bar rake you can figure out where to drive as ground speed makes a difference in how far and how much the hay rolls off the rake in the windrow. In thin hay we'll rake two throws in and one out to finish windrow. I saw the kinked PTO shaft when you first hooked baler up and thought you'd probably have a issue there, nice fix. You figured out that hay stack quick too. You're well on the way to being a farmer. Get your dad some long britches. ;) Thanks again from AL.
Thank you very much for this pleasant and friendly comment 🙂
Great job putting her back together and getting her back to work ❤️🙏🏻
Well, the little guy deserves a restoration! It earned its stay. You may sink more than You paid but it seems worth it.
No need for "matching numbers" on old tractors!! Buy a more comfortable seat! Fantastic episode.
Some good memory foam from some sofa guy would make this very comfy. I have one of those orthopedic cushion with memory foam and that has made my tailbone way happy. Otherwise 4 hrs of driving and my back would go bad with the crappy seats in my economy hatchback.
The cushion set and back rest ,,were actually comfortable 😂
Your video brought back allot of memories of growing up on my grandfathers farm in upstate central New York in the 1950's. We had a team of draft horses, and John Deere A. We worked the hay loose using a hay loader being pulled behind the wagon and was put in the hay barn using the fork and trolley system, Only later on did we start using Bales. Thanks for the memories.
Luke, you're a nature at the commentary and awesome in how you explained all your processes. That is probably one of the best $300 you spent. You definitely got your money's worth. Loved the bottle opener too. It's awesome to see equipment still in used today that was used then I was a kid (in the late 60s and 70s) on the farm. Just goes to show, you don't need fancy new equipment to get the job done. Hand bailing square bails brought back a lot of wonderful memories growing up on the farm. You definitely don't need to go to the gym when you work on the hay rack. You looked like you picked a perfect day to bail as the sun was behind the clouds. GREAT JOB, GREAT VLOG!
Gotta love these old tractors!! Nice work bringing back to life! It was a goner otherwise
Good kit without electronics back in the day. Good to watch.
Thank you 😎
your crank starting the tractor...My first car was a 1954 Moris Minor convertable..a LBC..it was the series II 803cc engine..the original BMC OHV engine..I used a crank to start that engine often..It had an electric starter..but..at gas stations, etc..I would hop out and crank that engine to life..This was 1966..I drove that car 50 miles ..one way to college for two years..before I went to Nam in 1968..
Thank you for your service to our country!
Luke, thanks for sharing your overhaul on the AC and putting it through it's paces. You and Emily are a good combination along with your dad for making hay and putting it in the barn. Blessings to you all.
I appreciate that, and same to you my friend
Your wife looks happy in her vet bibs driving that tractor 🚜
Loved the video Luke, thanks. Cheers from Queensland Australia.
It's great that you are keeping these old tractors in use.
😂 I was about to make a Steve Irwin joke, but you beat me to it!
I'm 44 and grew up on a farm in northern MN. I spent many many hours on the seat of an Allis C with a 6 ft Sun mower deck slung underneath. The narrow front made for a pretty good mower tractor, but I was not a fan of the flat seat. I seem to recall a lower more curved "back rest" if you can call it that. I swear it was designed to do double duty keeping the operator from falling off the back of the tractor and pummeling his or her kidneys.
Is it "no friends" or is it "the best life ever"? 😆
You're not alone. I'm a Systems Architect and my free time is vintage computers and vintage cars.
I built my first micro...a Northstar kit in 1978
I still got a trash 80 dual floppy drive with expansion interface
Great video. Putting them back to work is so satisfying.
The old tire inflator from the spark plug …
We had one with our tractor back in the 70’s
We used it all the time
Great for pumping up large tractor tires !
Wish I still had it!
Great video
Love the subtle name changes in the intro😂😂
Good to see you Luke!
Nice to be back, if only for but a moment
Hopefully a long and enduring moment!
I feel really blessed to have come upon your work videos. Luvit, thank you.
Its good to see equipment running that has a use. Great for hobby farming and topping off the fluid closet. I'm going to guess between the conveyor/roller hitch, tires and hinge points 16. I live in the great white north so If I got it just give the prize to someone local, or teach them how to operate the bailer. More hands make light work.
Thanks for taking us along. You certainly have more digital friends than most. Cheers
As to the spark plug tester, I grew up with the old style testers. Firstly, we plugged it into the unit and operated the built in sand blaster to clean it before applying compressed air with slowly increasing pressure whilst sparking to see if it would fail. The pressure emulates engine compression. Some plugs worked fine in the atmosphere, but failed under pressure which would have equated to engine compression, so take your Amazon tester with a grain of salt please.👍
Perfect video. You took that tractor from hopeless, to putting in real work! God bless.
I had so much fun on these old tractors as a kid. Would love to have one now just to put around and do things on the property I have now.
The little beast that did!!!!
FYI you need to make a backboard for the hayrack. It'll help stabilize the load
Awesome Video Luke!!! Awesome tractor!!! i'm telling you that paperwork was accurate but it sat so someone monkeyed around with it a little trying to get it to fire and you bought it win/win!!
God bless you and your family for working together and farming the hay in.
You brought back some old fond memories of my childhood in Portland Tennessee, I know how hard farming can be 🥰❤️🙏🏻
Yeah, your overlapping windrows did well. I wouldn't let it lay flat on the ground after cutting for days, rain risk, dew risk. I'd cut it and then rake and if it needs a second rake do that. More days the hay is cut you can get a sneaky night time rain.
Tripod through the hay bailer! Epic video !!
Died an honorable death after ten faithful years 🫡
I was really hoping to see you crank start the old Allis. In 1968 I was a skinny 4' 8" kid the first time I crank started our 51 Farmall. One bit of advise before you try it; have someone with experience teach you how to do it correctly or you could break a thumb or a wrist. Congratulations on another success.
Rotate so you pull UP on crank, never push down.
Best video on AC - B. I've seen. I have 2. One is crank only.👍👍👍😁
You need to have a little more faith! Allis-Chalmers had the best mechanical engineers in the industry at the time. That same engine powered everything from carnival rides to municipal sewer systems in its day. I had no doubt at all.
Thank you for posting these videos. I’ve been learning a lot!!!!!! Thumbs up 👍
Always look forward to your videos!!
Great seeing you post vids again!! And thats a great little tractor. The tires are likely filled with calcium. Great for weight and not freezing but not so great for the well being of iron rims. I still use a 1940s era John Deere Model A tractor and a 50s Farmall C. Love the old tractors. Cant wait for more vids. You and the Mrs have a great property and its very rewarding all the hard work!!!
Quite an accomplishment!
i love when i see females running tractors throwing hay shes a keeper and the tractor too of course both deserve respect
Sounds like my mule💯 00:21
getting into 'normal' oil pressure range while hand cranking lol
these things had "pressure" at "rpm" in "gear" and i love it
WOW you "stole" that tractor. Enjoyed the video 👍
The little tractor that could. Awesome content I have run AC for years . Nice to see them out working again. Still have 2 of them.😊
lol. right out the window with ya. I don't know that anyone that's watched you work could think a misspeak means you don't know what you're doing.
Some things I have to say at least 6 times before I say it in a way where it would make sense for everyone 🙂
What a fun video. Glad I came across your channel. I grew up on a dairy farm where we baled about 4-5000 bales a year. Our order of operation was cut the hay one day, rake it the next (the same way you did btw) and bale it the third. If we took too much time the hay would dry out and we lost too many leaves to make it good feed for out cows. If we did it too quickly, it would be too wet making it hard on the baler to operate and heavier to handle. Learning to stack the bales on a wagon and then in a big stack was an art. Well done! And if you slow down just a bit, whoever is dragging the bales onto the wagon will have a better chance of survival. :)
I very much enjoyed reading this comment, thank you 🙂
4-5000 bales is an absolute ton
Way to go, Uncle Luke!
Great vid! You did the right thing in giving that ole girl the chance to run again🏆
Awesome video thanks for taking the time to video it.
If i worked at Allis Chalmers or John Deere i would have been filled with pride. Such a nice sight and even getting the job done. Well done! Warm regards from the Netherlands.
That looks completely fun.
thanks for the upload sir! found you from kevin @ JYD. We have a 1938 AC WC here in northern indiana that my grandpa bought new before he joined the USAAF. flew b17s from england with the mighty 8th! That tractor still runs like a top today! they dont make em like they used to!
They definitely do not, sounds like he made it back and went from the seat above the ground to once again the seat working the ground 🙂
On your distributor base being loose is because when they had the magneto you adjust timing where that unit is loose. You might want to adjust that so the distributor stands straight up. This gives you plenty of room to rotate the distributor.
When I tightened that bad boy, I did opt to make it straight up and down - you are right, easy to get to that way, and still shielded from the hood
Well, I'm glad I found your channel. I will be following along with your adventures. Well done' I love seeing the old iron be reclaimed and reused. This old A C has proven itself to be worth the effort.
Man when that thing started up with all 4 cyl running.. Very cool!
I was thoroughly impressed by its resilience
I'm glad I found your channel. Thank you for your videos.
I give you that buying old equipment is the best. Will be around after we are going.
love to see more of Emily, she looks fit and trained, you 2 are cool together.
love the revivals, awesome skills and jeez what a unit that AC is
We have a lot of fun together come hobby farm season 🙂
who needs a gym membership when you can throw bales.
That was a very enjoyable video.
Your honest, sober, numerous, very satisfying.
And you used a timing light 👍👍👍👍👍.
Outstanding.
73 in New Hampshire.
1951 John Deere "A"
I'm very glad you enjoyed it 🙂
I very much enjoyed the process myself 🙂