3pt add on to my allis chalmers wd45

[farm boy00]

Last year I purchase my ac(Allis Chalmers) wd45. And the guy had a few parts tractors and one had a loader and a have duty homemade 3pt. Picked up the tractor for $800 3pt for I think $150 or $200

 

[KennyG]

Looks like it's pretty "experienced" but, in my opinion, the wd45 was the best of the 50's tractors. Good luck with it.

 

[farm boy00]

She is kind rough for body wise but it is a work horse

Just went to get it this weekend from my farm. Hasn't been ran in a few months. Couldn't get it to roll over to start. Could be the battery or???

 

[KennyG]

She is kind rough for body wise but it is a work horse

Just went to get it this weekend from my farm. Hasn't been ran in a few months. Couldn't get it to roll over to start. Could be the battery or???

Probably the battery. Also, these have the external contactor on the starter that the starter rod actuates (avoids a solenoid) which sometimes doesn't make a good connection. Has it been converted to 12 volt? If not think about it. Makes it start a lot easier.

 

[farm boy00]

Probably the battery. Also, these have the external contactor on the starter that the starter rod actuates (avoids a solenoid) which sometimes doesn't make a good connection. Has it been converted to 12 volt? If not think about it. Makes it start a lot easier.

My brother had a problem with the push button(what we call it) with his wd. Tractor has not been converted. I want to or I might keep it original and get a 6v battery

 

[KennyG]

It's been many, many years but I think the 12 volt conversion is really easy. If I recall, we only changed the coil, the headlights and the generator and regulator. The original starter works fine on 12 volt as long as you don't crank it too long and there really isn't anything else electrical on it.

 

[farm boy00]

It's been many, many years but I think the 12 volt conversion is really easy. If I recall, we only changed the coil, the headlights and the generator and regulator. The original starter works fine on 12 volt as long as you don't crank it too long and there really isn't anything else electrical on it.

I would up date it but I want to keep it original as possible. I still might though

 

[Deere Dude]

-Your tractor brings up fond memories for me. My dad had one around 1955-60 and I was about 8-11 years old. It was a monster to me and he let me drive it but I remember it being hard to turn for a kid. It had a front end loader and he only put chains on one wheel otherwise when pushing snow or dirt if he would hit something rough the front end would pop up off the ground. I remember it had to be started with a crank on the front and it was tough to turn over, but that was what we used for the heavy lifting. Nice tractor.

 

[farm boy00]

-Your tractor brings up fond memories for me. My dad had one around 1955-60 and I was about 8-11 years old. It was a monster to me and he let me drive it but I remember it being hard to turn for a kid. It had a front end loader and he only put chains on one wheel otherwise when pushing snow or dirt if he would hit something rough the front end would pop up off the ground. I remember it had to be started with a crank on the front and it was tough to turn over, but that was what we used for the heavy lifting. Nice tractor.

Those old tractors have some good lifting power. I bent a set of forks with the loader

 

[franklin2]

My dad got a wd in a trade deal for some hay off his property. The farmer he got it from liked it because of the hand clutch. They used it to bale hay and when the baler got into a big wad of hay, the tractor could be stopped with the hand clutch and the pto still had power and could turn the baler till it caught up. He converted it to a 3 point hitch, and it looked just like the pictures above.

 

[farm boy00]

My dad got a wd in a trade deal for some hay off his property. The farmer he got it from liked it because of the hand clutch. They used it to bale hay and when the baler got into a big wad of hay, the tractor could be stopped with the hand clutch and the pto still had power and could turn the baler till it caught up. He converted it to a 3 point hitch, and it looked just like the pictures above.

Where was it at???? I love those hand clutches

 

[Deere Dude]

Where was it at???? I love those hand clutches

My dad wrongfully parked the tractor under a shelter on a hill so he could push in the clutch and coast backwards and pop the clutch to get it started. One day when I was about 9 years old, me and my sister were playing on the tractor. I either pushed something or stepped on something and it started rolling backwards. My sister jumped off the back and ran off to the side luckily, but I rode it about a hundred feet into the side of a barn.

I think my dad learned his lesson for the day and got off lucky. I can still remember that fairly vividly after 50+ years. It scared the starch out of me.

 

[KennyG]

My dad got a wd in a trade deal for some hay off his property. The farmer he got it from liked it because of the hand clutch. They used it to bale hay and when the baler got into a big wad of hay, the tractor could be stopped with the hand clutch and the pto still had power and could turn the baler till it caught up. He converted it to a 3 point hitch, and it looked just like the pictures above.

That was the great feature - the live PTO. Other tractors at the time made you shift to neutral to keep the PTO running. Also, it was built a little lower and had great torque, which I always thought let it pull stronger than the International and John Deere tractors of the day.

 

[franklin2]

Where was it at???? I love those hand clutches

He sold it about 10 years ago, and a local farmer was still using it as a back-up tractor, my dad never farmed he just messed around 20 acres with it. We haven't seen it in several years now, so don't know what happened to it.

He was always scrounging around getting old equipment no one wanted anymore. He bought one of those big 2 bottom plows with the wheels on it. Originally it had some sort of mechanism that used the wheels to pull it out of the ground, the guy on the tractor just had to pull a rope from the seat. He took one of the cylinders on the 3 point hitch, bought extra hydraulic line for it, and made brackets on the plow. He could take the cylinder off the tractor, uncoil the hydraulic line and mount it on the plow and use it to lift the plow out of the ground. It shortened the distance needed to turn around at the end of the row, but it still took a country mile at the ends to get it turned and started down the field again.

 

[farm boy00]

He sold it about 10 years ago, and a local farmer was still using it as a back-up tractor, my dad never farmed he just messed around 20 acres with it. We haven't seen it in several years now, so don't know what happened to it.

He was always scrounging around getting old equipment no one wanted anymore. He bought one of those big 2 bottom plows with the wheels on it. Originally it had some sort of mechanism that used the wheels to pull it out of the ground, the guy on the tractor just had to pull a rope from the seat. He took one of the cylinders on the 3 point hitch, bought extra hydraulic line for it, and made brackets on the plow. He could take the cylinder off the tractor, uncoil the hydraulic line and mount it on the plow and use it to lift the plow out of the ground. It shortened the distance needed to turn around at the end of the row, but it still took a country mile at the ends to get it turned and started down the field again.

Did the guy that owned the tractor have a loader on it???

 

[franklin2]

Did the guy that owned the tractor have a loader on it???

No, when we saw it he was using it for hay production also. It never had a loader on it that we know of. It was a tri-cycle all the time we had it also.

I just remembered one of the reasons why the farmer traded it. It would suddenly just quit and not start. Then after much cranking it would start again and may run for days, might quit again in a few minutes. It was doing that when my Dad go it, and after messing with it for quite awhile, finally took the fuel tank off and found a small block of wood in the tank that was laying in the bottom, sliding around in the tank. When everything was just right, it would slide over the fuel delivery hole and make it run out of gas. Ran like a top after that.

 

[farm boy00]

Went to my farm to pick up my tractor. Fresh battery and a shoot if starting fluid just cause it sat all winter and fired right up



The power of my hydraulics of my loader. And the forks were only ratchet strapped and chained to my arms of the loader