1928 McCormick-Deering 15-30 On Steel Wheels Pulling The Sled At Glendale, AZ 2-8-14

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We've still got an old 15-30 on our farm that my dad did a hell of a lot of clearing with a cable blade on the front and was his main tractor for quite a few years. Apparently the carbies on them were temperamental things, so he swapped it with a Bendix I think off of a KB 5 Inter truck. Horsepower doubled and it would easily outpull a fairly new at the time AWD7 Inter diesel tractor which was rated at 54 hp. It had a terrible thirst though running on petrol, but wasn't too bad on power kero. He was telling me one time they had unhitched the AW 7 off of an 18 disc Chamberlain plough out in the paddock which was of very hard brown clay based dirt and two days later he hooked the Big Mack, as they called it, onto it and drove off with it sunk down to its full depth of around eight inches. She was on steels exactly like this one and in the clay type soil she got a real good grip of the deck. He reckons the front wheels were feathering the ground but was pulling it easily powerwise at about 5 mph. Told me no way in hell would the 7 pull it like that and the 7s were well reckognized as being a fairly good lugging torquey tractor. He said the extra power did have a toll on the big ends though and they were replaced a few times over ten or so years. No trouble with the back ends though, they were fairly rugged. They used to run it on rubbers when they weren't clearing with it and told me the steels did knock the power out of it a bit as well as grip on most of our soil types. Also told me that the exhaust manifold and the whole exhaust pipe used to glow bright red and a constant flame about a foot long from the straight pipe when working her at night. He also blames the old girl for giving him "shaggers back" as he calls it.

[@machinerydoctor]

I just read the later 22-36 with a modified manifold and carby produced around 50hp on petrol

[@rodfaragini7110]

Love that old stuff

[@espeescotty]

They sure are cool.

[@hogfarmer4422]

Did they say the weight it was pulling?

[@espeescotty]

That is an 11,000-pound sled.

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That old and still pulling .. this what real steel is not candy cans this days made in china

[@souravpal7554]

Very good

[@pacificstate3149]

Is it just me or does the guy driving it look like Alex Jones.

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I love it

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Nice vdieo

[@mafiosomemer3730]

The Five-year plan tractor.

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انني مشدوه بهذا الابداع الالماني

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Farid Fardi أمريكي

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Amazing

[@mikkei3532]

old but still running strong

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hello

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Vincent N .

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Vincent N Good bye!

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Chulada

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9/11 steel was made from goats cheese!

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It