tractor with hand clutch

international606 · Jul 21, 2012

looking for a older tractor with a hand clutch, I want to get something that the kids can drive easier. Want to stay away from 2 bangers little more than what I want to pay. Know alot of aftermarket kits were made but those tend to be pricey, just looking for a plane jane tractor with factory hand clutch.

morgan in ar · Jul 21, 2012

allis wd

DeltaRed · Jul 21, 2012

Older Minneapolis-Molines had hand clutches.So did Case SC/DC models.Some IH 'W'series also were handclutch.If they're too small fot a foot clutch,maybe they're too small to drive...Then again,lots of us(me included)started that way.

jon f mn · Jul 21, 2012

You could look at an sc/dc case. Reasonably priced and good reliable tractors. An sc could get to 5000 lbs so they are easy to haul. Another option would be a case o matic case. They are like driving your auttomatic car and also have power steering available. The clutch is still foot, but takes almost no strength. Also some allis tractors have a hand clutch that will stop the tractor. They are a bit different in that it is used to stop for live pto use. I'm not sure which models tho.

Wheat Farmer · Jul 21, 2012

Not for sale at this time. But my Dad had a IHC WD9 with a foot clutch about 1950 model. I was 9 years old in 1953 and ready to start farming by myself, but couldn't push in the clutch. IHC came out with a hand clutch for the WD9, and Dad traided for a new one. I still have that tractor.

rrlund · Jul 21, 2012

Have they ever driven one with a foot clutch? If they have,I wouldn't try to get them on one with a hand clutch now. When we were kids,the neighbor had a Ferguson and a Case DC (hand clutch). Wayne was used to driving the Ferguson. He was on the Case and went to stop in the yard. He kept stomping on the left brake in a panic and drove it right through the side of a mobile home.

Tom in TN · Jul 21, 2012

International,

As Delta Red mentioned, Minneapolis Moline had hand clutch models back in the early 1950s. I started driving tractors for the men to pick up shocks of corn and hay bales when I was about 7 years old on an MM. Couldn't reach the foot clutch on the Massey Harris or on the Ford, so I drove the MM.

I was too weak to turn the tractor around close at the end of the rows so one of the men would jump up onto the tractor and get it lined up for me to drive it back to the other end of the field.

I loved it then and enjoy looking back on it today.

Tom in TN

buickanddeere · Jul 21, 2012

You can't afford a Deere but you can afford another brand then the time and expense of fabricating a cob job hand clutch?

Jim in Ma. · Jul 21, 2012

I started out with a 4x4 block of wood bolted to the clutch so I could reach it.
Had to do that for the grand kids to drive the Kubota too.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 21, 2012

I can't believe no one has given you the obvious answer. We had JD 2 cyl. and AC's in my youth. The JD was just not kid friendly. However the WD/WD45 was. The hand clutch is easy to operate. And in a panic there's still a foot clutch.

David G · Jul 21, 2012

Get them a hydrostat, would be very easy.

GeneMO · Jul 21, 2012

Ummmmmm? Excuse me! An M Farmall with a M&W hand clutch is not a "cob job"

Ours was put on in the mid 1960's and it is still working today.

We must have baled about 140,000 square bales with it.

Worked pretty good from our stand point.

And I started driving it when I was 10 or 11

Gene

rankrank1 · Jul 21, 2012

As much as I hate to admit it, Allis WD or WD45 are probably the best recommendations given since they steer pretty easy too and there is still a foot clutch, but it is an extremely long reach to the foot clutch even for an adult. They can be bought cheap too and do have great engines.

As a young wipper snapper spent some time operating a JD B and a JD 60. I actually did not like the hand clutches back then as it only left me one hand to steer with and I did not have enough strength to steer those old manual steering tractors with one hand as a young lad.

Much preferred any foot clutch tractor we had as I could use 2 hands to steer- assuming I could both reach the clutch and that I had enough weight to push it down. Some of those old junkers we had I could easily reach the clutch but it required too much force to operate so I simply could not drive those tractors.

Thought I had died and gone to heaven when dad bought the Oliver 1800 (series A gasser). Power steering and a real easy to reach foot clutch that pushed down easier than even a Ford 8N clutch (and it was not a hydraulic assisted clutch either). Still my alltime favorite tractor to work ground with - and wish I still had it altough it would be way too big for my measley acreage now.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 21, 2012

Both the seat and the foot clutch pedal have three positions fore and aft.

bill mart · Jul 21, 2012

massey harris 33 had an optional hand clutch , sorta gave you live power. bill

Kyle in KY · Jul 21, 2012

Allis Chalmers 175. It's a little newer than the D or WD series. Easy to operate and cheap on fuel. I had many hours on one as a kid.

Bill(Wis) · Jul 21, 2012

See YT photo ad #484518. Nice looking tractor.

NY 986 · Jul 21, 2012

Lots of Minneapolis Moline Z's around. Inexpensive and parts are not hard to come by.

dhamps10 · Jul 21, 2012

I was driving the 8N, at age 5. No trouble with the clutch. Now, I think that was too young.
Dennis

RusselAZ · Jul 21, 2012

I was 7 when Dad decided if I was going to be in the field with him all the time I may as well have my own tractor.

He found and got a LA Case for me. Hand clutch, no turning brakes and great big fenders so I couldn't fall off. I thought that tractor was the greatest thing in the world.

boler76 · Jul 21, 2012

Had my clutch leg in a cast for 6 months, welded a 3/4" rod to the foot clutch and bent to shape it worked very well, did the same on my ATV and it worked so well I didnt remove it

caterpillar guy · Jul 22, 2012

Old Western model cases like 930 had a hand clutch . Unless it is a hand clutch like on the old cats where you pull it back to move and push forward to stop screw a hand clutch.
I hate to drive those hand clutches on those coveted Deeres. To jumpy if your trying to feather them to inch along. Besides they work the wrong direction. And don't even get me started on the brake latches.

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