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Made it another year

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thehickdaddy

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Made it another year.
Photo is an old one but a favorite.
Tractor is 1929 Case L, bought used by grandpa in 1947 and helped create the love of chain drive cases
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Still has flat belt for radiator fan, and the long drawbar of 1929 only, but upgrades include 30 inch rear rubber, delco remmy battery ignition distributor convertion, LAI transmission 4 speed guts with rubber steering wheel, lights and ford model A generator
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So, you have the generator driven off the belt pulley drive.....pretty cool! Took a minute to figure it out.

Ben
 
just to clarify, the drawbar was originally flat but at some point in the 1930's the drawbar end was modified to jog up to help keep brush from getting caught on the hitch of the breaking plow it was pulling.
then later, the flap bar was welded on the channel iron to give even more clearance to the breaking plow hitch.
 
time is of the essence in the business of custom farming, and lights are needed for year round operations. My dad installed belt pulley driven generators on both of the family L cases. the other L has a chevrolet generator but still has original style basemount magneto
 
My dad says the local co op started selling the Delco battery ignition kits in late 1940s
my dad purchased several and installed some in simple conversions to replace the 2 bolt flange magnetos but he did a few conversions on Case L and LA which originally used the base mount 4 bolt mag. A conversion done on a 1940 Case D included changing out the long magneto and generator and governor assembly to the later flange mount governor so the distributer was then a direct bolt on. Next step being the installation of later gen pulley on fan hub, and car generator mounted on right side of engine
but the base mount conversion was still very simple with the use of a small piece of plate welded in place as seen in the photo. And i will refrain from saying anything about battery ignition on a Hand crank Case L.
But i will say the distributer in the photo has been use since originally installed in approx 1951. But dad did recently replace the advance springs with a weaker set and he seems to like the different advance curve now.
 
thankyou both caterpillar guy and danofarming for your replies. That got my dad to chuckle quite a bit. The ugly welds on the drawbar occured in the 1930s when the L was used to pull a breaking plow to clear land. The Case was driven in second gear and would routinely get caught on stumps and brush. Plowing is much faster then digging, pulling or blasting small stumps out. So the tractor was driven wide open in second gear to keep up inertia and momentum for plowing under oak, maple, ash, alder, and fir tree stumps. the rule of thumb was that the Case could turn under any stump of 4 inches or less. Many times, stumps would require multiple attempts at the same stump, but many acres were turned under in amazing speed compared to years of grazing, burning, pulling, and turning hogs out into the fields to root out the stumps. Just keep ramming them with the poor L and keep welding er back up. The breaking plow was also the reason to the higher hitch point welded onto the rear channel iron, both for more clearance under plow hitch and also for more traction on the 28 rear tires with concrete poured to fill in the wheel spokes.
 
The Case was driven in second gear and would routinely get caught on stumps and brush. Plowing is much faster then digging, pulling or blasting small stumps out. So the tractor was driven wide open in second gear to keep up inertia and momentum for plowing under oak, maple, ash, alder, and fir tree stumps.
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Man, that is a tough ol' tractor! Sounds like it certainly earned it's keep back in the day. It's wonderful you still have it!
 
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