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I remember the local PennDOT shed still having one very similar to this about 10+ years ago, probably around 2003 or 2004. Seem to remember them having an auction to get rid of some old equipment and it was one of the things that disappeared, and was replaced by a vibratory roller. It might've been a Galion roller, I was pretty young at the time and never really got a close look at it, but I do remember seeing it a lot up until they had an auction and then never seen it again.

A lot easier to find a 70/720/730 row crop diesel around here then the R, but they do exist. Problem is most of the R owners are into antique tractor pulling, which is why they have them, since they are a very good pulling tractor, and probably want an arm and a leg for them if you tried to buy one.

Here's some from the Nittany Antique Machinery Association's show in Centre Hall, PA on Saturday. Some trucks And a V12 Cummins

Eventually, but for now it's staying red. Have too many other projects at the moment that need finished, and there are a few times when we actually need that tractor for something, so we don't want to have it all tore apart yet. Out of the 7 tractors we have, it's only tractor we have at the moment that has enough power for pulling loaded hay wagons and isn't tied up in some other use. The only other tractors that are capable of moving the loads we bale are the Allis Chalmers D15 and Long 560 we have, the D15 now has a sickle bar on it that isn't coming off any time soon, and the Long 560 is the one we pull the baler with. Our Farmall Super C can pull the loaded wagons too, but only if we don't have to climb any hills, it really struggles. And trying to hold back going down them can be a little hair raising, too. That's the other good thing about the 2706 for pulling wagons, it has hydraulic disk brakes. Stops just like a car.

Thanks. We have a set of cultivators, 2 bottom plow, and a sickle bar mower for it too.

The rear tires are 23.1-30s and full of fluid too. I'd hate to have to take those wheels off. The whole tractor weighs 9000 to 10000 pounds, definitely can't run it around at idle like I can with the other tractors (I've stalled it enough times to know). Definitely the biggest and most powerful tractor we have.

This tractor has an interesting history behind it. Industrial version of the IH 706, one of 124 built, most which were diesels. Ours has a gas engine in it, and is one of 3 gas powered 2706s that we know to exist. The original engine, which would've been a C263, was replaced with a C282 out of a 501 combine (same block as the 263, but is also sleeveless, while the 263 had sleeves). Under that red paint is the original yellow paint that was on it when it left the factory. It was rebuilt some time in the early 1990s, then sold to a guy that lives a few miles from our farm, where it sat behind his house until 2 years ago. He had other offers to buy it, but they all wanted to turn it into a pulling tractor. Dad bought it because he was looking for something to plow with, he didn't realize what it was until he got it home and noticed the Industrial badge on the grille.

First tractor I learned to drive on was Farmall Super C. Was told that it has oversized pistons in it that were installed by the dealer when my great-grandfather bought it.

Here's our John Deere MT, don't have any pictures of the B, it's torn apart and stuck in the back of the shed.

We have a 1951 B. Ours is an all-fuel (has a tank for kerosene and a smaller tank for gas). Those mufflers with the square bottom weren't the greatest idea Deere ever had. The hole through the hood on those tractors was round. The right way to replace the muffler would be to remove the grill and steering wheel, then pull the steering shaft out through the front. Next you would unbolt the hood and lift it up and over the muffler and air cleaner. That isn't as easy as it sounds since the fuel tanks are attached to the hood, so you are lifting the tanks at the same time as the hood. Now that you pretty much have the enitre tractor tore apart, you can replace the muffler. Of course this is not what most people did. Ours had the metal cut and pulled out around the hole so that the muffler could be removed. They got smart with the number series tractors and did like they did with the unstyled tractors and the styled G and ran the muffler base through the hood so that the muffler could be removed just by unbolting it from the base. Another interesting thing, this time about the model H, was that the power from that engine was taken off the camshaft, instead of the crankshaft. Shelby