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BANDITFARMER

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I posted a picture of a friends tractor this mornning and it got me to thinking, What makes a tractor rare or odd ball? Now Don's 1949 David Brown Crop Master was built in France and shiped over hear and there are only 4 known to be in the USA and I would say that its rare. I have a AC D17 series 2 but by the serial number its a series 3 (very early 3). It has series 2 and 3 parts on it and its a Hi-Clearance modle to boot. Now would say its rare or odd ball? I guess I should ask what do you think is rare or odd ball? Bandit
 
Yep that what it is, And its Pink paint is correct for the tractor according to Don. Heres a couple of pictures I took at the show that year. It is diffrent. Bandit
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I am not aware of any DBs that were not built in Meltham, Yorkshire England.

The Cropmasters aren't particularly rare, just rare here in the US. Loads of them still around the UK, 50,000 or so built.

The proper color is "Hunting Pink", which in reality is red, Think of the jackets English fox hunters wear. The the "pink" comes from an early tailor(thomas pink) who made the fox hunting jackets.
 
It is funny how something commond overseas can be rare here. I still like the 2 seat set up it has. Its diffrent for sure. Bandit
 
I think manufacturers were a lot more lenient with themselves getting rid of parts than we want to believe. There was kind of a rolling change with many major parts at the WD-WD45 changeover.
AC was all the time coming up with "series" after the fact. I don't believe there was any series designation on the D17 until "series III".
I had an early Gleaner E, Dad had a late one, in fact, one of the last. There were definitely differences. The next model was an EIII ! So Dad's really should have been a II. But there was no such designation.
When I bought a JD 2520 I thought any 2510 issues would have been resolved. Was I ever surprised to find the blasted 4 piston hyd. pump in the thing!?
 
Ford did their change from the 900 series to the 901, hard to notice anything different of any importance unless you got the SoS. Then they brought out the 1000 series, again not so much change. Then they updated the tin and looks like a different tractor, but still the same number on it.....

Gleaner too, they went from the F to the F2 but not a lot of differences. Then they came out with a longer shoe and better combine in 78, but continues to call it an F2.

Seems the changes and the model number changes don't match up.

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 16:57:08 01/28/13) What about the David Brown 50D how many of them do you guys have? Looks like a bigger version of this one.
Bill
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Never seen one in the flesh.

Anything prior to 1965 except the Oliver 5/600s are hens teeth.
 
I'd consider these to be rare or odd ball. Essex Tri Directional,Oliver 880 FWA,Wood gassification powered doodle bug and a military JD A.
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found this while looking for something. It says it is a US Army artic rescue vehicle. Looks pretty cool. No pun intended.
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This is a real rare one....The protype Ferguson LTX ....or Large Tractor Xperimental....MF cut them all up for scrap and built the Mh 50 and Ferguson 40 instead.
Sam
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Wish I could have got a tractor the company I worked for had, It was a Ford 961 diesel Vineyard with the Elwood 4x4 that was all factory. It had a lot of hours and needed a total rebuild, They figuared it was to costly so it got used for fill in a new boat dock on lake Erie. What a waste. They did a lot of dumb stuff like that. Bandit
 
Though not all that rare, I think the Bolens RideMaster is an odd ball.
They mad all kinds of implements for these things, including a four row planter.
The planter went between the rear wheels when you slid them out.

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