Combines Old Old S P Gleaner

[Combine_Wizard]

Ed, now that is something worth restoring and placing in a museum, not back in the field.

 

[unit_3]

Don't you ever let them sell it away from your family.

 

[BenM]

looks like an N series Fordson, serial plate should be under the gas tank attached to the forward side of the rear cast iron gastank support. Also look at the rear of the engine block where it meets the bell housing for the clutch. Don't remmember if it is on the left or right side, but most had a 5 or 6 digit number running vertically along the lip of the engine block and the corresponding lip of thr transmissoin_clutch housing; there should be the same number on either lip; a difference would indicate the front half (or rear half) of the tractor was switched, usually due to repair needeed from a frozen engine block. Sure is a neat piece, though, always been partial to old machinery. Ben.

 

[Ed_Boysun]

Thanks for the info Ben. My BIl and I both looked all over for the number, but not knowing where it was supposed to be, we surely could have missed it. We'll look again and see. It is my understanding that some of the early Fordsons didn't have a serial numberIJIJ I'm well acquainted with the tractor's history and I'd bet money that the block was never frozen. The radiator deal was the biggest misfortune to befall the cooling system. John l. was one of the owners of the tractor and his FIl, had retired from his job as a janitor and moved to Montana to live with his daughter. The combine was barely a few months old when he neglected to check what was behind the rabbit he was shooting at. Of course with the radiator being drained for the winter, the damage done by the .22 short didn't show up until it was time to put the tractor to work in the spring. Make for kind of a tough situation in inter-family relations. Not sure how I would handle it. Ed in Montana

 

[BenM]

There could very well be no serial number, given that these fordsons were some of the first tractors widely sold, and with the english and American Fordsons adding to the confusion, plus the non- related Ford tractor of the same era further complicating things, who knows what may have happened. But keep the rabbit story alive, it adds colour to the tractor's history, and keeps a personal side to it. Ben.