I said that about my tractor after I brought it home. If you'd have seen the place I bought it from, you'd understand. Nice people but looked like extras from the movie The Hills Have Eyes. Tractor was outside in a junk infested unkempt, weed filled back yard next to a swimming pool that looked like you could fish in it and catch trout.
How authentica can it be when he has never failed to start / fix something. Wouldn't be surprised to see him find a spare tyre, spark plug and a fan belt in a paddock, start it, drive it home and grade his drive way.
My Grandpa died before I was born, he bought an allis B brand new in 1938.. Its the only thing of his that I have... Ive got the original bill of sale with it.. My goal is to restore it! Thanks Marty!
Honey, I got you a present! ... "It's not another 70 year old tractor is it?" ... Well, you know how you're always cold in the winter? "Yeah?" .... So, TECHNICALLY, it is a tractor... BUT it can also be used as a sawmill to make fire wood to warm you up ... "🙄"
Another very lucky tractor saved by Marty from a lonely retirement destined to rust away neglected with only memories of its once proud owner feeding it clean fuel and fresh oil.
What a great find. This old girl should be restored to her loving best to celebrate a long working life. History needs to be preserved and if this old girl could talk what a story she could tell.
I suspect someone already has the perfect museum piece. Setting it up to reliably get its hands dirty would seem like an honest tribute to me. As a lad, dad brought home one about a decade newer, it had the adjustable front end and distributor/alternator. I want to say someone made a 3-point conversion, you may be able to find enough info to scrounge one together.
The oil bath air cleaners don't actually have the air traveling through the oil. The air travels down towards the surface of the oil and takes a 180° turn and travels up into the carburettor. The 180° turn causes particles to hit the oil and stay there due to their angular momentum. The metal mesh in the filter catches any oil splashed by the air flow and lets it drain back into the bath and not carry on into the cylinders to cause carbon deposits
The history of the Allis B in the UK is interesting. 1000's were imported from the USA early in WWII. My uncle bought one in 1940 for 100 pounds brand new. For many UK farmers it was the first time they had anything other than a horse.The UK models were usually Petrol to start converting to TVO when the engine warmed up. Uncle's never had electric start fitted because it crank started so easily. (I noted your 2nd and 3rd starts. Allis also produced a small (5' cut!) trailer combine(Allis C) which had a more powerful engine. We cannibalised one of those for the tractor and a good machine suddenly became very good. Uncle sold the B in 1977 for 50 pounds to a young neighbour who still uses it, particularly on soft ground in winter because it doesn't tear the ground up (so light) . I have never seen the sawmill before but they came with a range of mid-mounted equipment. Definitely a blast from the past, which I spent hundreds of hours piloting. Good memories.
I think we had one of those when I was about 10 years old, so around 1970. I thought it had the steering column canted to one side, but I must have remembered that wrongly. It must have been a Model B as it was tiny. We called it "Chuffy" because of its characteristic exhaust sound. A handy little tractor for a small farm. Another great video, thanks Marty!
Mind your fingers with that lacing (Alligator clips on the belting), them points gash the ends of your fingers and thumbs for fun! Another worthwhile save Marty, well done.
No I can't, but I'll wager tractors from the 1920s through the 1970s will still be putting along. I have a cub of that vintage and while it sits for months, pull the choke with ignition off and crank slowly twice, switch on the ignition and it almost always starts on the first crank.
Some parts of Allis Chalmers still exist as subsidiaries of other companies. I worked for AC as a recent college grad at the company's HQ in West Allis in the early 80's. It was a huge company with an illustrious history dating back to the Civil War. In addition to making tractors and combines, it built rotary kilns for processing taconite ore, the hydraulic turbines for the Aswan High Dam, and the blowers used at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project for the uranium gaseous diffusion separation process. Unfortunately, by the late 1970's, the company was being very badly managed, tens of thousands of workers were laid off in the early 80's, and the various subsidiaries were sold off or shutdown.
No cuss, no fuss, just straight up fixin'. Such a great guy. Thank you for sharing with us. Those belt making materials don't grow on trees. Cherish them. lol Great little tractor and the saw setup is right up your alley. Have fun with it.
Fantastic stuff. I love how you reuse these old tractors instead of letting them rust away and be dumped. I would kill for an old girl like this in my yard!
The magneto has an "impulse" start.. the "flick" from turning it by hand is the same as full strength spark when running. So naturally it will start on the crank... When the starter is used the voltage doesn't drop (as it would when the starter and the coil were both draining the battery during starting) so there will be instantaneous starts...
Evening mate, this upload brings back memories! My father bought an old Aliss way back in the seventies, he was in the waste reclamation industry and stuff like this came along from time to time. The one he had might’ve been earlier than the one here, it had to be swung as I remember and it kicked like a bugger! He bought it home on a low loader and started it after putting some petrol in it, ( it started on petrol but ran on TVO-tractor vaporising oil)in just a few swings! He proceeded to drive it around the lawn, tearing it up in chunks! My mother was not thrilled but he was laughing like a kid and popping wheelies it had so much torque! I later understood that this propensity for early tractors to rear up on the back wheels killed more than a few operators and hastened the development of the three point linkage. He put it in a barn and was intent on restoring it but , like most men in his industry, when a profit came along he took it and bought something else!🤣 It was fun to watch but not particularly safe! Take a note mate, they can flip over with devastating consequences.
The same thing can happen with some 60s tractors if you put something too heavy onto the three point hitch. I helped clean up the aftermath of an accident like that just a few years ago, thankfully with barely any consequences. The threaded rod on the linkage broke and the driver was pretty shaken because he had no longer been able to steer. He did brake fairly quickly but not quite fast enough.
Some hard lessons were learned back in the early days, sadly too hard for some. The manufacturers of equipment developed much safer systems so those hardworking people’ terrible sacrifices weren’t in vain. Modern agricultural machinery is much safer and operator friendly. It’s a pity we don’t learn and evolve as quickly in other facets of our existence.
my grandfather taught me to crank the engine by hand, only hold the crank with your left had, and pull up, holding your left wrist with your right hand for more power, because if the engine backfires, you will take the blow on an open hand rather than the back of your right hand and break bones. Wonderful as usual, you are amazing at bring old equipment back to life. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful. I worked on some of those old Allis Chalmers tractors. They were very reliable and quite useful. When I worked for the US Postal Service, we used quite a few of those laced belts. There is a machine that allows you to perfectly cut the belt and crimp in the lacing, but if you are careful, you can cut square ends and drive the lacing into the ends with a hammer. Use a rod through the laces to keep them from collapsing when you install them.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There’s just nothing like watching you bring and old tractor back to life… Honey, you won’t guess what I brought home… again. 🫣
Three years ago my wife and I bought 2 acres with lakefront and I would really love to find a machine like this to restore vs. buying new. Watching your videos for a long time makes me think I could actually make it work!
What a difference when an old piece of iron is put to bed properly. In a shed, running and with the fuel drained. So much easier to get the ol' girl running again.
Cheers Marty - great to hear the little Allis burst into life. I gather that these tractors were designed to be used in the remote parts of the US and so had to be simple and able to be repaired by farmhands since garages were few and far between.
Love the Simplicity of these older Machines, Imagine a Similar Unit in todays Market being Parked up for 20 years and able to run again...... It would be Scrap
I bought an old Allis Charmers tractor just to put the family jet boat into the river near the family beach cottage! First I had to repair & replace the clutch & pressure plate. Then I registered it & drove it 60 miles along a road at a slow pace & not once did it miss a beat! There was no muffler so I just had a straight pipe pointing upwards & it chugged away merrily until it got dark & all the sparks flying out of the exhaust pipe was enough for me to see the road ahead until I parked it at a farmers property for the night only to return the following morning to continue my journey! 0:06
Another old tractor saved . And of course it starts right up . Marty you are the man . I was just fixed to go to bed when video came . Of course had to watch. Great video.
For Marty T standards, sitting 20 years and parked in a barn (and being driven into), equals brand new from the dealer. Not surrounded by overgwrown vegetation, not capzised in a swamp, not sitting in the open. Come on' mate, that was an easy one!😉
@@stephenhewitt5835ikr Marty did t have to trek into the bush for three hours carrying all his tools and fuel on his back! This one was like someone handed him the keys to a brand new Cadillac!!
Just an AWESOME video example of Mr.T's skill's here in Internetland. Possibly the question may be , "what can't Mr.T fix/get running?" lol . Wonderful video of him teaching us about the many different machines he's repaired, giving them 2nd or 3rd chances of working life again. Thank you Mr.T, a joy to watch and learn here in Maine.
I don't think I have seen you never getting a engine running a little bit or full running. You sure have some great talent for sure. Thanks for another great video.
Great find!! Those old tractors are quite handy. It's amazing how much work they are capable of. My grandfather used a Farmall Cub to farm 40 acres. Had a one bottom plow, small disk, two-gang harrow, one row planter, sickle bar mower and a front dozer blade.
