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Allis Chalmers WD and Things Dear to Me

09/21/2022 by ST Leave a Comment

This picture means a lot to me because it includes several things that are dear to me.

The Allis Chalmers WD is a reminder of my Dad who received this tractor brand new on April 16, 1953, according to the weathered and grease-stained owner’s manual in my possession.

Our new pup, Cindy, a golden retriever with whom I plan to spend some of my golden years.

A big, steep hill, that my Mom had dubbed Old Smokey when she first saw it in 1955 or so, part of the farm on which my Dad toiled to make a living for his family, a hill that has been in the center of my family’s farm for 150 years, now seeded to native prairie and returned to nature as my mother had always wished but never came to see.

A clutch of evergreen trees that my wife and I had planted on the side of that hill when we moved to the farm some 35 years later.

The pasture where I first drove the Allis while my Dad walked the fence in Spring preparing a place for the heifers to call home that summer.  Dad pointed the tractor parallel to the fence, put the gear-shift lever in first, set the throttle at a low idle, and snapped the hand clutch into gear.  He walked the fence cutting last year’s weeds from the rusty but otherwise, smooth wire, replaced a few insulators, and tightened that wire as I white-knuckled the steering wheel in my 6-year-old hands.  Allis crawled forward along the fence with the fencing trailer, the cut-off box of an otherwise discarded pickup, in tow.  Suddenly, Allis and I lurched forward and lunged down a short but steep slope just to the left of and outside the frame of this picture.  Allis had popped out of gear and we were now free-wheeling down the slope!  I hung on to the steering wheel for dear precious young life not knowing how to apply the brakes and being at least a foot too short to reach them.  After an interminable run, I suddenly pitched forward toward the steering wheel.  Both front tires had plunged into the dead furrow at the bottom of that slope and the tractor and I came to a sudden rest…almost!  For there was just enough forward momentum to push the wheels up out of that trench setting the tractor careening forward again.  Allis and I briefly resumed our wild flight until the back tires settled gently in the same dead furrow and we truly did stop.  The entire harrowing ordeal had lasted less than twenty seconds and covered less than a hundred feet.  I imagine our speed topped out at about 6 miles per hour.  It was the wildest, most death-defying ride of my life!

Curtis Olson
Webster, Minnesota
Tractor Photo Contest Winner

1950 Allis Chalmers WD

07/30/2019 by ST 2 Comments

Before and after pictures of restoration of my 1950 Allis Chalmers WD. Many parts were purchased from Steiner Tractor Parts.

Ross Morrow of Athens, Tennessee

Allis Chalmers B

03/18/2019 by Elizabeth Gross 5 Comments

  • Allis Chalmers B
  • Before dressed with sheetmetal parts.

Our customer, Kenneth, in Idaho is doing a complete restoration on an Allis Chalmers B.  He’s been purchasing everything to rebuild from Steiner. 

Parts to rebuild the Fairbanks Morse magneto, new gauges, a new battery box, carb rebuild,  a new steering wheel, various gaskets, eccentric style rear wheel clamps, seat cushions and hardware, muffler and raincap as well as various knobs, caps, cables and boots. 

Thanks for being such a loyal customer, Kenneth! We can’t wait to see this project come together.  Keep the pictures coming!

Allis Chalmers Desert Life

04/07/2016 by ST 6 Comments

Allis Chalmers WD45 TractorThis 1954 Allis Chalmers Tractor was brought brand new in March of 1954 at an Allis Chalmers Dealer in Aleman, Iowa by my Dad and driven back to the farm at Maxwell, Iowa some 19 miles or so. I watched my Dad come in the driveway with it, I was 5 years old at the time. At that time it was the most awesome sight I had ever seen and so proud of my Dad.

The tractor was still being used somewhat on the farm two years ago last July. But my youngest Brother has henceforth taken over the farming operations and before my Dad had gotten too old had bought a newer tractor and some more A/C’s. So my Brother asked me if I would like to have that tractor since I was the oldest son of 3 and used a tractor here in Tucson on our acre along with another 5 acres in Sonoita, Az. I had a Farmall H at the time with not attachments except a Buzz Saw. I gave the H to the neighbors in Sonoita, Az. So of course I was delighted, so my son and I made plans to have it sand blasted and he repainted it to specs. It also came with a front end loader a rear blade in which I needed desperately. So as the story goes I trailered the tractor back to Tucson, the paint was so fresh we could not put Decals on it in Iowa and I needed to get back. A month later we finally got the Decals on the Tractor. All three of us brothers grew up in the fields on this tractor as it was the only one we had till I left home.

So now the Iowa tractor is alive and well and serving it’s purpose until I am too old to drive it. When my Dad at 91 see’s a pictures of the tractor he just grins from ear to ear and says yup that was my first Tractor and Tom has it in Tucson.

Thomas Hand
Tucson, Arizona

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