Posted by LenNH on October 27, 2009 at 14:18:06 from (71.192.137.159):
In Reply to: titan 10-20 posted by rich cartman on October 24, 2009 at 17:33:39:
There is probably a reprint of the operator"s manual available. I have one and would "share it" somehow if you buy this tractor and need info. Go to YouTube and search for "Titan 10-20" and you can a guy go through the whole ritual of starting this old bird. When cars had had sealed oiling systems for years, IHC chose to go with an "oiler," which pumps oil to the various internal bearings. The oil is WASTED....apparently drips out of a hole onto the ground. Nice for your concrete floor! Ah, but what a fascinating piece of machinery for those who like to see valve gear rocking back and forth in front of our noses, and big flywheels and pulleys whirling around. Kinda like a steam engine out front. A neighbor of my father's had TWO of these which he used up into the 1940s, but only at that point to disk up corn stalks. He claimed the wheels fitted perfectly over two rows of stalks, and that the cleats chopped the stalks a little. When I was maybe 10, I occasionally crossed over the fence and asked if I could have a ride. Fascinated ever since. Around 1950, this fellow announced, in a very proud voice, "I sold them for junk and I got SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE TWO OF 'EM!" I suppose that wasn't exactly chicken feed (sorry about the cornball farm joke--couldn't help it) back then. I bought my first used Chevy a couple of years after that for $1300, so I suppose the value of $75 in today's money might be several hundred. Nobody cared about this stuff back then. My father left every tractor he ever owned outdoors until they became rusty hulks. I'm still kicking my (ahem!) today for not saving the 10-20, two Hs, and an F-12 he bought new in 1938, with those beautiful castiron wheels. He also let the '32 Chevy 1.5 Ton I learned to drive on sink into the ground and feed the soil. To show how little this stuff was worth 60 years ago, a relative bought a '29 Chevy 1.5 T for $25 around 1950, and we thought he was nuts.
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