Mutant Grader

[John Deere 55]

My family has owned a half tractor half grader for a while now. It has made me curious over the years. I really want to know what it is and what its worth. If you know anything at all , post it and I'll read it. Thanks

 

[atgreene]

My family has owned a half tractor half grader for a while now. It has made me curious over the years. I really want to know what it is and what its worth. If you know anything at all , post it and I'll read it. Thanks

That is a sweet piece of iron, does it run? Do you use it? I'd love to have one to use and restore.

 

[JayC]

Did they make the tractor, too, or just the grader portion? That's a great piece of old iron. Would sure be interesting to see it restored.

 

[Bob Rooks]

It appears to be a vintage Huber-Warco.

Warco grader - Google Search

Value on the street, about $60.00/ton (delivered).
Value fully restored, priceless to the right party.

 

[John Deere 55]

I'm pretty sure they built everything together. We have always wanted to restore it, but we like our things original and we dont know what the original color was. It looks like the color is orange but I don't know if its original or not.

 

[John Deere 55]

I don't think it runs but I have always begged my dad to try and get it running but he doesn't have enough time. It's his so I don't want to do it myself.

 

[John Deere 55]

I added new photos so take a look! By the way the trackloader is an old Cat HT4

 

[Taylortractornut]

The WARCO grader was just an attachment, THey did sell a a feww already mounted with the tractor. They used AC,Deere, McCormick Deering/ IH, Ford,Fordson, Oliver and others. Also several smaller Crawler untes were also used and tractors convereted with Trackson tracks used to.

Wehr was also another grader front similar to the Warco unit. Thats definatly a collectors item. THere was a steel wheeled one in the woods near me. THe owner wouldnt sell it to a collector. I offered him double scrap price for it and one day I saw where it had been freshly drug out of the wood. I cought up to it going to a scrap yard and the scrapper wouldnt sell it. I finally got ahold of a collector in the area that bought it from the scrap yard owner. It now resides in Ohio.

 

[John Deere 55]

Do you know what my tractor is?

 

[DJ54]

Appears to be a McCormick-Deering. The name should be cast in the face of the top tank of the radiator.

Taking a wild guess, either a 15-30, or 22-36. Possibly a 10-20, but looks too big for that.

If it is still there, or unless removed by Warco, there shoud be a model, and serial number tag, on the front fuel tank support, on the right side like sitting in the drivers seat.

 

[McCaskey]

An earlier version of same grader, pulled by a steam engine tractor. Located at Alexander Gas & Steam museum in Alexander NY

 

[John Deere 55]

Neat! We have a grader similar to that, too.