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  • From: KAKerby AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] It does not have to be Farmall
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:07:19 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks for bringing up the Allis Chalmers G tractor.  Another very good one.  One of the biggest regional certified organic farms here has about six of them.  The running joke is that any ad for an Allis Chalmers G will only last long enough for that farm owner to see it, and then he'll do whatever it takes to buy it.  There must be something to those tractors that he'll go out of his way to scoop them up as often as they become available.
 
Very interesting notion about converting the old gas tractors to electric.  I looked through that article to see if any other tractor types were listed, but it was only the G.  Is there some reason the G is more suited to electric conversion, or would any older gas engine tractor be a decent candidate?  I've looked through various descriptions of converting other gas engines to electric, for instance with old cars, but never a tractor.  Now that would be a real interesting wintertime project 'round here.......
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
 
In a message dated 7/16/2011 5:03:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, MAsteveINE AT 207me.com writes:
Antique single row crop tractors could be Cub, A , or B Farmall; JD L or LA;
 
Massey Harris Pony, Allis Chalmers B, or G; Power King and others.
 
The odds of finding any of them as diesel are about zero, they just
 
did not build them; and none are any better than the care they recieve.
 
The real hassel in buying any of these would be finding one with the attachments
 
necessary to make them usefull, I would make that the deal maker before
 
all else.
 
THEN before messing with an engine much for an 8 hour/week
 
tractor I would Google "electric conversion"......as in:
 
 
 
I wish you well with your decision,
 
MAsteveINE
 
 
 
 
 
 


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