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Most unusual or rare implement or accessory?

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Easy

06-12-2006 02:49:07




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I see some odd implements from time to time, like air pumps run off the pto, or grinders for sickles. What is the most unusual you have seen or had?




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cornfarmer

06-12-2006 19:33:53




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
I once had an Allis-Chalmers front discharge manure spreader.



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williamf

06-12-2006 13:16:19




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
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A road scraper like mine isn't what you would call unusual, I guess. It's modeled on a commercially available type.
But as it's made almost entirely of what I had lying around it's unique in its fine points.
Wm

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Nolan

06-12-2006 10:48:34




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
Windrow turner. Now that isn't all that unusual, but this one mounted on the front of the tractor. Worked great.



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Roger in Ks

06-12-2006 10:42:32




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
I have a Von Ruden PTO driven chainsaw. It may not be the most unusual but it has to be the most dangerous. It has a 5 foot cutting bar and looks like a small trencher. The operator holds the outer end. When it is thrown in gear the side tourqe is all a person can stand. All square shaft drive, no slip clutch or shear pins. I have this mounted on a G Minneapolis Moline tractor.



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Rauville

06-12-2006 07:21:53




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
How about a tractor powered bone grinder? Used for grinding cattle bones into fertilizer.
And, I always like watching the stalk shredder at work when they get it belted up at the local tractor show.



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Dave H (MI)

06-12-2006 07:21:46




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
Chicken plucker. Not all that odd but it is the strangest thing I own that I can think of.



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jubilee johnny

06-12-2006 06:56:08




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
What about the jeeps that had pto on them for farming?



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Rufus Windrow

06-12-2006 06:21:18




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
Are you telling me that you haven't heard of the "All-In-One" implement developed by the Essex Tri-Directional Tractor Company in 1923? My goodness, you must hit those books a bit more. Anyways, it was a "once-around-the-field" tool, did the plowing, cultivating, seeding, weed control, and harvesting all in the same day. Hooked up only to the ETD Plowmaster Tractor but because of poor sales of the Plowmaster, the "All-In-One" was a financial disaster. Rumor has it that there is still one up north, somewhere around Jakes Corner, Yukon. I believe Festus Grimes' uncle used it in his thriving pineapple business.

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Mike (WA)

06-12-2006 08:27:39




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Rufus Windrow, 06-12-2006 06:21:18  
Good to hear from you, Rufus. Its been so long, I thought maybe you'd shuffled off to that "Great Pina Colada in the Sky". The legendary ETD is still in our hearts, if not in our minds (which many of us seem to have unfortunately misplaced somewhere).



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Rufus Windrow

06-12-2006 09:55:13




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Mike (WA), 06-12-2006 08:27:39  
Well, well, well, Mike from Washington. Of course other than living in Alaska, you're about as close to Jake's Corner that anyone in the US can be. As a result, you have a vested interest in keeping the ETD history alive and well. There were several ETD's down your way but no Plowmasters, just the run-of-the-mill Stubble Basher and the unique Furrow King. I believe I saw one in a field near Mazama last time I was through there in '92. I often wonder if it's still there.

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Uncle Ernie

06-12-2006 20:05:35




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Rufus Windrow, 06-12-2006 09:55:13  
Yes it still isn't there anymore yet.!?



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Nebraska Cowman

06-12-2006 05:18:52




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
I saw a PTO drill press once on a Ford Ferguson.



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Ultradog MN

06-12-2006 08:46:15




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 06-12-2006 05:18:52  
I saw one of those pto drill presses at Palmer Fossum's in Northfield MN. It also had a grinder on it. They fit on the Ford N tractors.
Often wondered if anyone actually finished drilling a hole or grinding a part as those Ns had the horizontal muffler and directed the exhaust directly at you as you used it.



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Easy

06-12-2006 06:18:59




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 06-12-2006 05:18:52  
I wonder if that was old Henry's idea. Ford had ideas about "cottage" industry. He set up plants in Michigan ( Nankin Mills, Northville valve) that had a product to make, and the help was supposed to be the local farmers. And this area of the country is full of ford tractors. One reason is that Ford employees could buy them under thier "A" plan - company discount, and payroll deduction. My wifes uncle has a Jubilee that he bought new. Actually his son has it, he has gone to wherever Ford guys go.... I am curious about this because I am thinking about getting some different stuff for my Farmall H.

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Ultradog MN

06-12-2006 05:16:14




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
I'm still looking for one of those rare and much sought after 3 point mounted trebuchets.
You never know when you might want to hurl a dead calf or that pesky lawn mower into your neighbor's field.
Jerry



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Dan in Ore

06-12-2006 04:01:41




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Easy, 06-12-2006 02:49:07  
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I have posted on here a couple of times pictures of a post hole auger. It mounts on the front of the tractor and runs off of the belt pulley.

It is a two man operation.

I can find nobody that has ever seen one before.

Dan



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msb

06-12-2006 08:35:02




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Dan in Ore, 06-12-2006 04:01:41  
You can quit looking Dan.Not only have I seen one, I was the guy on the platform running the crank.It wasn't exactly like the one in your picture as I recall.It was in 1955 or 1956 that we drilled some post holes with it.Think the one we used was an International and the platform guard was slightly different(maybe not).We mounted it on a Farmall M.Was a bear to hook up to and the 4" belt would come off occasionally.

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Dan in Ore

06-13-2006 17:02:07




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to msb, 06-12-2006 08:35:02  
The belt slipping and coming off was the shear on it. It had a square drive on the bit, so no shear pin on the auger.



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Easy

06-12-2006 06:09:43




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 Re: Most unusual or rare implement or accessory? in reply to Dan in Ore, 06-12-2006 04:01:41  
I haven't seen one like that, but I did see a PHD for a cub, made specifically for it. Neat little unit. Looked better than a lot of newer units - the thing doesn't swing around like mine does.



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