My Case and Ingersolls

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Finly got my new camcorder going so I have some new pictures.

This is the Case 446 I picked up a few months ago. It is a early 80's, and has a 16hp Onan motor. It needs a lot of work, so I don't know if I will fix it up, or part it out.

 

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Other side.....

 

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This is my wifes 224. It has been giving me a ton of headaces. It ran fine last year, but now wont. Of course I have no time to fix it till the house is done, and I live there.

 

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And this is my baby. My first tractor. A 444.....

 

[RobS]

Paul, pictures turned out well. Your tractors remind me of an old Wheel Horse I inherited from my grandfather. I don't know much about Case or Ingersoll, care to share some history? They look about the same, are they cousins? Thanks /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[s1120]

They are not much like a Wheel Horse, except they do have that old style Garden tractor look.[Why do you need an aero tractor??] They started out being produced by a co. named Colt. This was eather late 50's early 60's. They were a full Hydro drive. Case was looking for a small line of tractors to sell with there full size tractors.[Much like JD was, and is] so they bought the Colt co. sometime in the mid, to late 60's. They did not change much through the 70's. In the early, to mid 80's, Case was looking to dump the garden tractor part of the buseness, so thats where Ingersoll came in.[Not Ingersoll-Rand, totaly different co.] Ingersoll rebadged the old Case tractors for a few years.[My two Ingersoll's also have Case nameplates on them] Then improved them in the late 80's. They are still selling them today. They look a lot alike, but there is a lot of changes under the skin.

My mid 80's 444. One of the last of the old style.

My early 80's Case 446. This style started in , I think 1969. Look at the fender/foot rest aera. In the mid 80's they made the tractors a bit longer, and improved them.

A new style 4016. Brand new. You can see my 444 is kind of a hibrid of old, and new.

Hope this did not bore you. I like my tractors./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Will_C]

Oaul; Thanks for the pictorial walk down memory lane. My father was a self employed excavating contractor who always had Case equipment, so naturally, he had Case garden tractors.
Our first was a 120, I believe, a 10hp gear tractor bought in 1967 or 68. That was traded in 1975 for a 444 with a 48" mower and a 54" blade. At that time, most Case dealers did not sell the tractors, this one came from a small independent dealer.
The last tractor Dad bought, (the one I traded on my BX 2200 in 2000) was a 448 , with the 60" MMM. The Case tractors were the Cadillacs of garden tractors in the 1970's (IMHO), but I think JD and the others have became much more fully featured anduser-friendly over the last 15 years. Still, the tractors that I learned to use and still have the most seat time on bring great memories to my heart.

 

[RobS]

Hey, thanks for this history lesson Paul. Very informative and great looking tractors you've got there /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[jhburke]

I have 2 448, a 646 w/fel. These all run and I have 2 48" snowblowers, hydro vac with wagon, 48" tiller, single bottom plow, cultivator, 48" double gang disk. I have a lot of extra parts, rear ends, steel lines, oil coolers and tanks, 2 16 hp onan engines. Plus a lot more. I bought one tractor and it seems like it just multiplyed.

 

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<font color=red>I bought one tractor and it seems like it just multiplyed</font color=red>

Same boat hear. I got the 444 first. It came with a tiller. Well, then the wife wanted a bagger, so we got a hydro bager, then we got a plow blade. My local dealer had a hydrosplit logsplitter I had been looking at for awhle. He finley gave me a deal for the splitter, and the tractor it was attached to. Thats where the 224 comes in. Then one day I stumbel across an add for a Case tractor for $200. Well, you know how it goes. The 446 made three./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Now if I could just find a nice cheep 64x loader I will be set.