did any MM s have a hand clutch?

Any time I see a photo of the older MMs I wonder if it might be the same model as the neighbor had back in the late 60s. It was a smooth running tractor and if I remember correctly, it had a hand clutch. I'll have to ask my brother if he remembers any thing about it.
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The G line up to the G707/8 all had hand clutches.

A lot of them did G, U, Z, and their variants. All but one of our MMs were hand clutch.

My brothers U did...

This U at a local tractor show has a hand clutch.

One of our neighbors had a parked model Z with a hand clutch that we played on as kids.

The R had a hand clutch.

Was there a model that was opposite of a Deere, meaning you pulled the lever to engage and pushed the lever ahead to disengage? Adjusted one in college.

I think some of the early Case C or D tractors had the backward hand clutch. Kinda dangerous if you weren't used to it.

Cats worked the same way. Pull back to engage.

A lot of MM's produced prior to the mid-1950's did. As to direction to release and engage I don't remember. I played on a Z as a kid but that was a long time ago.

The MM that my father in law farmed with had both a foot clutch and a hand clutch. I'm guessing that the hand clutch stopped travel and left the PTO running like the old AC's. It's been 50+ years since I ran that old tractor.

I grew up on a Allis-Chalmers WD and dad had a JD A ( opposite engagement ) I dont think him or I ever got mixed up. I now have a JD B and a WD45 and I never get confused. Off course on the Allis I use the foot clutch a lot.

My '50 GTB is hand only. Push forward to go, pull back to stop. Maybe I'll get it running this summer. Like driving a dinosoar

The U series had the hand clutch and the UB series that followed had the foot clutch. My U also lad the live PTO setup off a UB on it and that was a hand clutch as well. The U was built with shoe brakes and the UB was disk breaks and putting the LPTO on my U made the left brake that the disk brake you could not get enough pressure to make that brake work.Minr also had a LP head on but was a gas burner so it had in mid 50's on HP on dyno. Also the drawbar was not adjustable in height and when we went to hook up the baler the pickup would not drop to less that 3-4 inches above the ground on the wheel that controled the pickup height. A Z was same on hand clutch while the ZB whent to foot clutch. The R I think was only hand clutch for the entire production, I never saw one with a foot clutch. The big difference between the U and UB and the Z and ZB was the hand to foot clutch and a higher seat seat setup instead of the low seat of the U and Z where you straddled the PTO shaft. I only had mine for a couple of months back in 68 as it was just too hard to handle. That extra high drawbar could not keep fron end on ground in tough plowing. Traded it off and a person without a left foot bought it because of that hand clutch and from what I heard he was happy with it. I suppose he found a way to lower that drawbar to a workable height. Never was around the bigger tractors like the G series so don't know anything about them Mine was supposed to be a 44 model and it had the single block engine.

The older J and K series of tractors also had the hand clutch. Just been to long to remember if clutch worked like the JD or the opposite way.

They worked the same as a John Deere.

I thought some guys were talking and you could reverse the hand clutch on some of them so you pulled to engage and push to release. The right way for one to work if you want to back up to something and hitch it up. Thoe Deere bassacward should have got the designer/engineer hung for them.

The ones you like ARE the BACKWARD ones. one you walk with a push mower and you go forwatd and that is the same with the Deere hand clutch. You want to go forward and push forward. I liked that setup, the other to pull to go forward is just not normal thinking.

Were they an over center cluch or just pull back to shift and release forward to go? Deere is over center and I am thinking the MM was same way

Yes. 1948 ZTU on the farm when I was growing up and still there in the shed...

Hand clutch on the right side. push forward to go. It goes over center and will lock. Been a few years since I had it running, unfortunately.

I agree