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In the early 50s, maybe before , before we had much in the way of articulated tractors, and power was still low, I saw and heard of JD combos where guys hooked 2 tractors together, front of rear on the drawbar of the front one and rigged controls so 1 person controlled them both. Did people do this with other makes of tractors, IH, Case, Oliver etc or just the with JD?
 

http://www.mccormick-deering.com/storyGem01.html

Check out the picture in the bottom right of the link. Seen a different one too, neither JD or IH, linked back to back and IIRC, articulated rather than the front end left on either; a quick web search yeilded the above, but not recalling the make, no luck with the latter.
 
ford offered a kit to put two tractors in tandem. tractor supply offered a kit and a lot of farmers did their own engineering to put two tractors together.
 
My dad and uncle temporarily mated two M Farmalls. The second tractor's front bolster was removed and a frame made to the front Ms drawbar. They used two drivers, it was more to allow the horse power to work better pulling a Adams leaning wheel grader. (It did take both to drag it with the blade socked into clay) It was useful. JimN
 
Knew a guy who has 2 Moline M5s hooked like that. Twas before my time, grandpa told me about it. Whould like to have seen it in field!
 
All makes were involved and colors were sometimes mixed. Dad and I had a farmall 400 in front and a F20 in the rear pulling an IH 4X14" Model #16 plow. The best Piggy-back setup was a Farmall 560D in the rear and a SMTAD in the front. This was steered with hyd. cylinders ( no front wheels on either tractor. The 560d in the rear had a cab and a fast hitch and was the tractor the driver drove from this tractor. In the fall these tractors each had a IH. two row mounted corn picker and after the corn was harvested they were hooked togather and did the fall tillage and in the spring pulled a fast hitched mounted field cult. Other combos included 560 & F30, 806 & H, a pair of farmallM's, An M & DC case, John deere 60 & unstyled G, a MM M5 & and U pulling a 5 or 6 bottom oliver pipe plow and in the spring a 21ft. IH field cult. I wished I had pictures of these combinations. Armand P.S. Once in a while some of these piggybacks show up at the old tractor shows. I don't know your location but at the 2009 Rantoul,Ill. Harvest Days show there should be 1 or2 of these rigs doing field work.
 
theres a guy out of ND I belive his name is dufner has 3 - 830 jd's hooked togather and has the cab from a 8630 on the middle one. I seen it pull in a tractor pull against front wheel assist and 4 wheel drives and he did pretty well he has had that tractor in a few magazines too
 
Ya it would be pretty neat to own one of those setups.

Stieger used the concept in the mid-late 70s. They built a twin engine experimental and a triple engine one that had over 1000 horsepower.

Cat also ended up using the concept. They joined two D9s making a DD9 I think they called it. They used the same thing with some of their belly scrapers. They even ended up building a Triple scraper.
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Search on "tandem tractor" on Youtube. There are several videos of tractors set up this way. There are also a couple of videos of the triple 660, three IH 660 Wheatlands rigged together, two in back side-by-side, and one in front. Awesome.

I remember reading an article years ago in the Farm Show paper about how they would tandem older tractors together in the 1950s to pull larger implements. One such rig was an M coupled to a pair of off-brand tractors pulling what looked to be a 5-bottom semi-mount plow.
 
Mixed brands were used in any combo you could imagine. Even had some add a aux motor and ran it thru the belt pulley or pto for more power. I have seen several combos at tractor shows ect.
 
as far as the scrapers go I know cat used to make them so you could hook them up in tandem or triples. Most companies dont run them in triples though because theres so much power from three machines and one cutting that if the one in the ground hits a hard rock knot, it will tear the bowl off. You can really move some dirt though.
 
There was actually a manufacturing base set up for Fordson Major set up by a company called "John Doe". I know that sounds a bit strange to American ears but its true. They produced a tractor called the Doe Triple D. I have since seen Ferguson, Chamberlain and Allis B in this style. Doe's continued into Super Majors etc. If I can find a pic I'll post it in the next couple of days
 
Suggest you Google Doe Tractor. The Doe Tractor was a commercial development using two Fordson tractors and a number were built commercially. Tractor had excellent pulling power and was very agile despite its length.
Try these links for some good photos;
http://www.vintagetractorengineer.com/blog/2008/04/19/doe-triple-d-tractors/
http://www.oldpond.com/acatalog/the_doe_tractor_story.htm
This site has an excellent article from the feild engineer; http://www.ytmag.com//articles/artint184.htm
It is tough talking about Fords on the Farmall pages....
 
HI
Florida Flywheelers show had 2 JDS together there the year before last. I do not rememeber what # they were. It was not home made looked very professional
Rob Baird
 
In 1961 the family took a road trip from Missouri to Washington (Seattle Worlds Fair).I was 5 years old and I know I saw two JDs hooked together, but the rear tractor ran the front wheels onto a basket on the draw bar of the first. All of the tires were on the tractors but what a 5 year old thinks he sees and what he saw may not be the same! Kevin
 
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