1956 Black and White Allis Chalmers 16mm film "Engineering In Action" Showing Snap Coupler, Tractor Booster, Power Crater, the New WD-45 Diesel and more!
we had one. it was the first tractor that I ever drove.I can still remember what a bitch it was trying to turn that thing no power steering and I could barely reach the brake pedals and the clutch I would disengage the hand clutch and practically laid down to reach the brakes. ah the good ole days lol!
I was driving a WD at 9 years old and didn't have a problem. I still have Dad's WD and used to mow hay with it and pulled a 5 section drag and sometime a grain drill. I sat pretty comfortable but I kept my left leg on the platform and my right at the brakes and sat sorta side saddle and for me it was better because my neck would get sore turning around checking my work when sitting on an M or even the D17. Sitting like I did it was no sweat because it was like I was on a swivel seat. I also used the hand clutch most of the time and rarely the foot clutch.
why arent those movies in color 😮😮 other movies went 2 color in late 194OS they 1ST put rubber tires on tractors in 193O and they went 2 power adjust rear wheels on tractors 😊😊 in the mid 195OS less work less time 2 adjust the rear wheels on tractors 😊😊 OMG 7 4 2O24
So ah, Ford for one had draft control on some of their tractors 10 years earlier. Wouldn't it do the same thing if hitched to the 3 point arms instead of the drawbar? No gauge though.
The Ford system was top link sensing and didn't perform as well. The AC Snap Coupler is hard to beat even with modern 3-point draft control because the Snap Couple pulls from a single point ahead of the rear axle so it holds the front axle down better and follows the tractor better.
Neighbor had an early WD with straight cut gears. Noisy POS that you didn't dare look at the latch for the Famous Traction Booster or it would leave the working piece behind. Sometimes it was on wheels and going uphill could prove disastrous. Plows were notorious for coming unhitched and rolling up on top of the operator, many times killing them. The seating position left you laid out even if you were a full sized adult. Escaping quickly was never an option. A horrible machine that some think were revolutionary. Traction Booster did work quite well but never became what the 3 point hitch did, STANDARDIZED by the industry the world over. And the diesel WD45 was a Buda engine. AC BOUGHT their diesel, not design it as did most other manufacturers. The Buda was good no doubt as AC used many design features for years. If not for that, AC would have been left in the dust, diesel engine wise.
I had never heard of snap coupler plows rolling up on people until I read it on a forum a few years ago. I asked my dad and grandfather about it since our area was A-C heavy. They looked at me strange and said nope. And a quick Google search also tends to disprove your comment. Then, after ACTUALLY looking at both my Uncle's WD45 and the D17 we have , the ONLY way a plow would roll up on sombody is of they had messed with the lift arms and made the spring latches unoperational as well as messed with the latch in the bell. When mounted implement reaches a certain angle of attack, they spring open and release. If you mess with it and disable it because you are so terrible at setting up a plow so it pulls that hard, then it MIGHT roll up on you. But at that point you've probably stopped and actually decided to set your plow up correctly. As usual a John Deere guy who doesn't take the time to understand anything but their filling rattling pop pops spews uninformed garbage out there. I wouldn't expect anything less from an archaic pop pop driver.
I never heard of a plow flipping up until I read it on the allis forum. I worked at an AC dealership and it just never happened that anyone heard of. The snaps would automatically release if you would happen to rear up but the bottom would have to unlatch for that to happen and that wouldn't happen unless the spring broke and even then it would be unlikely to flip the plow. My dad has farmed with AC since the 60's and he's never heard of it either so I think you are just repeating something you read and that you have no experience with. The Snap Coupler system really out performs a 3 point because of the single hitch point ahead of the rear axle which keeps the front end down and drafts great by following the tractor more precisely. I was driving Dad's WD at age 9 and still have it and I never had to stretch out like you claim in order to operate it. There were years that the WD and the WD45 were the number one selling tractor in the US. 1951 and 1954 come to mind so I don't think you know what you are talking about, with all due respect.
@@SilverGleanerI had a wd and that tractor was a beast. I put that tractor through a lot and it just kept coming back for more. I have no doubt that that tractor could handle all of the tasks of a small farm. There are a few people that have figured out that this older equipment can get the job done without going into debt with all the latest greatest tractors. Sure, you spend more time in the field, but isn’t that where you should be?
@@mikecarr1378 Dad pulled 3 x 16's in 3rd which must be 5 mph or so. He said he could have pulled 4 bottoms easy enough. My dad grew up on IH driving an M, a new Super M and a new Super C. When he bought his WD45 he never looked at another brand tractor. Dad said that no Super M could pull like his WD45. I concur.
