Here's Something You Don't See Every Day! It's a 1947 Detroit 44-16, Collected by Wendell Kelch!

[@tootired76]

What a neat little machine! 🚜

[@fricknjeep]

thanks to all and also have a great Happy Thanksgiving ,thank you john

[@Biokemist-o3k]

I hope everyone had a Happy thanksgiving!!..Thanks for sharing with us-John

[@tomleonard6177]

My favorite quote: "Until I'm dead, I won't be done."😅

[@Bob-j5o3b]

Excellent to see that he left it unrestored - it can show all its history now. Restorations destroy all that visible history

[@Robert-x9g9s]

I was hoping it had a two stroke Detroit Diesel for the engine, still a very cool find👍

[@jebsails2837]

My first thought was that it was an aircraft "tug" used to re-spot aircraft, The manufacturers name also made me think it was powered by a two-stroke Detroit diesel Safety third as Mustie 1 says. Narragansett Bay

[@william38022]

Pretty 🆒 😎😊👍🌻

[@theda850two]

Cool little machine. Thanks to Mr. Kelch for saving it!

[@lagoonbaboon5147]

convert it to a golf cart. Can you imagine showing up at the country club in this badass?

[@brianhosey3811]

Unbelievable! How do you guys find these gems? Love it!

[@SteveNicoson-u1i]

Thanks for the video Brian. Was interesting. That tractor is most certainly one of kind. My compliments to that gentleman for restoring it. Thanks. The Iowa farm boy. Steve B

[@ClassicTractorFever]

You're welcome Steve!

[@craigalston2208]

​@@ClassicTractorFever was that a MF Super 90 under the shed in the interview ?

[@richardnoyes5571]

That company was definitely on to something 💯

[@Dan-qy1rg]

When I first seen the engine with the Continental 4 cylinder I thought Bobcat Skid steer. My dad had a Bobcat 610 that he left me when he passed and I still have it, it just doesn't run, right now. Thanks for sharing this story!

[@benterbieten9540]

What a neat little tractor.

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

Neat tractor. Thanks. 👋

[@ClassicTractorFever]

Thanks 👍

[@davidhollenshead4892]

@@ClassicTractorFever Old Tools like tractors should be kept for future generations to see how design evolved to make the tools we use today. Thanks for letting us see that the skidsteer had a great grandfather that was almost ready for production...

[@OldIronFarmToys-eg8tz]

Nice vids

[@DanBeanner-zo3ms]

Head Light Knob is from a B-52.

[@robertschemonia5617]

My grandpa had a 9N with the original aluminum hood! Lots of people tried to buy it from him as a collectors item. He wouldn't sell it. It was worth more as a tool than money. Now, it sits in the showroom of a tractor dealership, with the hood mirror polished, behind a velvet rope in southern Missouri.

[@ACE324MINER]

Holy crap I've seen one of these things before at a small airport in New Jersey. Thought it was just someone's home built monstrosity, I think they used it as a tow for largerairplanes

[@travisdean8794]

I have a 1969 Ford 120 garden tractor. All original. Hopefully one of these days it makes it on here.

[@timmcquerry6068]

Unless you're about 4ft. Nothings, with loooong arms,that would be ONE UNCOMFORTABLE SUMBUCK, to run all day😮.

[@davejanowski4510]

I have seen one of these sitting in a woods not far 😊from me dont know if its still there or not

[@markdanielczyk944]

Very cool! Gotta love dangerous Dinosaur equipment!👍

[@indianasunsets5738]

American history is littered with companies that went out of business and left nothing behind but oddities. This tractor is an example of that.