Help me indentify this tractor....:)

[MSWoodlot]

As JoeinTX points out, European tractors get highway use, as shown in this video of a Fendt posted several months ago.

YouTube - fendt

MSWoodlot

 

[dsgsr]

I think I saw Bonnie & Clyde in that tractor last week, Running from the Law

David

 

[RedRocker]

I'd love to have one of those, it's my favorite tractor.

 

[bjr]

IHFARM has touched on something pretty valuable. Maybe OT but, the idea that people made do with what they had and think there way thru problems back then. Maybe off topic, but a good topic none the less. bjr

 

[Kernopelli]

That is one neat old tractor. Sitting here thinking about it, it would be pretty easy for some of the car guys to turn a vintage tractor into a reasonable reproduction of that. Or even spin off that idea and make something even more unique. A pick up based design or a wrecker would be obvious. How about a "motor home"-use a '30's/'40's model front clip and cab with one of those tiny tear drop campers for the rear. Maybe get Chip Foose and start a "Pimp my tractor" show on TLC network! I've got it-"Orange County Tractors" I'm calling the producers!

 

[madpogue]

I think I saw Bonnie & Clyde in that tractor last week, Running from the Law

At that speed, I wouldn't exactly call it "running".

 

[Keith_B]

While some are making light of the 40 MPH speed they need to consider that in 1938 there weren't a lot of 40 MPH roads in rural America. A lot of roads back in that time were unpaved, and ungraveled.

The UDLX was really ahead of its time in regards to having a full enclosed cab for the tractor. The main problem was that is was a pretty radical departure for the time, and that the target audience was very conservative in nature. It really didn't help MM that the farmers could purchase a tractor and a car for the same or less money than the UDLX cost.

 

[mjncad]

The UDLX was really ahead of its time in regards to having a full enclosed cab for the tractor. The main problem was that is was a pretty radical departure for the time, and that the target audience was very conservative in nature.

The Tucker of the tractor world?

 

[alchemysa]

These Chamberlain 'road' tractors were quite common here in Australia once upon a time. Up to 50ks an hour. (Did you have them in the US?).
Cruising down the highway… in a tractor » ABC North and West SA

I remember them 'flying' down the highway towing big trailers full of scrap metal waste from the local GM plant. Braver cyclists than me used to hang on for a fast tow to school.

Incidently, the Trek mentioned in this link was probably at least two to three thousand kilometers.

 

[sandman2234]

I picked up a Willy's jeep that looked just like the Military style that had a pto mounted on the rear, offset to one side. The body rusted away from sitting on the beach so I took the pto off of it, along with the driveshaft and the part that hooked to the transfer case, which included the third shift lever. It stay out in my utility shed for 10 years. I found an old man that had restored a Military Jeep and took it by his house and gave it to him.
Years later I got to thinking about it and figured that might have been a good EBAY item. Oh well, hope the old man got some use out of it.
The things people do to vehicles to try to make tractors out of them...
David from jax