Allis Chalmers Museum Tour 

Thanks for the memories. My dad worked and retired from Allis Chalmers. He was a welder in the Hawley plant. My older brother also worked there, he work in the tractor plant. God bless them both.

Great video and history. Thank you. That old pull behind combine was quite the monster. Cutting edge up against the steam thrashed. And yes 500 dollars was a big deal in the 30s. My dad bought a new Stevens 22 rifle in the depression. It was 4 dollars.

Nice contents. Thanks for showing some AC equipment. I have three Gleaner combines in the barn. A Gleaner G, L and a M2. Still use the L for corn and the M2 for beans. A farm I purchased a few years ago. Came with five AC G tractors. One G has a rotary hoe for individual rows.

Jeffrey, thank you for this tour. I was pleased to see the Luebben hay baler that Gilbert Vust restored. What a fine piece of work. This was the invention of my great grandfather Melchior and his brother Ummo Luebben and Gilbert paid such a tribute to the invention by reserecting this Luebben Baler.

thank you so much for sharing. love any older tractor

Allis Chalmers was my second favorite company. I'm a John deere man. They were very innovative just like deere

Very cool 😎 my dad used to work for Allis until they went bankrupt. Always had a love for them.

Jimmy Carter's all out war on the small family farmer and his fiscal policies that brought about 25% interest rates, are what destroyed the Family sized farm and the companies that supplied them. Framers went broke , then the machinery builders went, we lost Allis , IHC, Also short line companies like New Idea, also Moline and Oliver all went under, under Carter. Carter passed a new farm bill that took away the price supports so the big AG conglomerates like Con Agra, Cargill and others, could force prices to well below production costs. The present Administration under Biden, is trying to finish the job and force all Farmers into bankrupcy, and goverment take over of all agriculture, just like China And Russia. Then just watch what happens to the people! Wake up people! these New World Order lunatics want total Communism and one leader the world over. Then you will see the end of life as we know it.

Thank You

Thanks for this video. Lots of memories. I grew up on a farm in Illinois with lots of AC equipment--WC's, WD's, Rotobaler, etc. Love the sound of that WC/WD 4 cylinder engine. I later worked for a company that was bought by AC in the late 1970's.......and then the end came for AC. Very sad. Demise was fueled by bad economic times coupled with very poor management at AC.

wonderful

Awesome love all the old tractors

Great video and naration Jeffrey. Thank's for doing it. Brings back memories of my families AC business in Retsof, New York. Western part of the state.

Allis Chalmers and Gleaner pull type combines where offset to the left so you could combine counter clockwise and then mow clockwise to reduce skipping caused by wheel tracks. I have used the AC 90 pull type to combine fescue seed.

When you were looking at the implements in the pole barn you had seen a couple "disks". They were actually disc plows. These were used a lot on the prairie as they did pull easier than the moldboard plows, and they did scour easier than the moldboard plows.

Much of that museum was donated by Gilbert Vust. He was a very talented man who lived almost next door to the museum.

Excellent video. I worked for Gleaner for 15 years. Not the same Gleaner as this one is in Scotland and supplies fuel, heating oil , petrol etc. You may be interested or not but I am running a book on tractors 1904-1934 about 4 pages each week at the start of my videos. At the moment I am working on a David Brown 996 Uk model. Bring it back from sitting by the sea for 2 years doing nothing. Quite a bit of rusted up parts. I sometimes make parts that you can't get now. M 😀

" Big Alice" steam turbine still produces electric for NYC today.. Allis Chalmers also had a experiment fuel cell tractor in 1950s. Excellent channel that you.

I haven’t seen yet this year but hay just got started around here

Dad had a Baldwin combine. Hercules engine behind grain tank. Header on right side. It had a chute on left side to unload on to the truck. Dad pulled the combine with his g John Deere. The Baldwin combine was invented at Nickerson , Kansas. Years ago at are state fair in Hutchinson , Kansas their was a very early self propelled Baldwin combine. Model t engine behind the grain tank. The small wheels in the rear were the steering axle. Many yrs ago at the allis chalmers dealer in Wichita kansas I seen one of those combines that the header mounted on the front of the tractor. The tractor was an old rumley , allis, or case. The grain tank mounted on the left rear fender of the tractor may be 20 bushels. Also the old Baldwin self propelled combine at are state fair had a 7 or 8 ft header on it.

Round back Gleaners are sweeet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great video. WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN, factory and headquarters.

My Dad had a Terra Tiger. Three of my neighbors welded Gleaners together in Independence Missouri til they closed

Nice Museum lots of iron in it. Been there twice 👍

Friend of mine still has and uses his Roto baler

Great video

My great grandpa sold allis chalmers from the 40s all the way until they went bankrupt so my family always had an allis half of the family only had allis

My Dad worked for them when I was a boy, they built transformers in Braintree, Mass. the company was moving to Tennessee but my parents didn't want to move, so we stayed in Boston area, my accent would've been different.

That’s cool

The memories. We were an Allis/Gleaner farm. We had a mod 60 all crop with the axillary engine on it, a 2 row mounted pickers on the WC and a mod 190 i beleive it was on the D17. Two CII C/S specials. An A also. The combine progression up to L2s. Ran a G also. Tractors 2 WCs, WD, D17, 185, 210 and a 7080. Sure wish someone would start Allis Chalmers back. Get rid of techno garbo and be an operator and not a computer jockey. Lol

A bit of fun trivia, the tractor was originally named after the founder's wife, Alice Chalmers.....They divorced and it was switched to Allis.

67 mph. That's cookin right along. Nobody has had the kahoonas to do it since 😆

Hi Great video Thanks for sharing Were the Husman or Johnson Brothers involved with the museum Thanks

d 21 with front wheel assist is one of a kind d21 series 1 does not have a turbo

West Allis WI was headquarters for Allis Chalmers

spreader that moved the manure to the front actually solved a problem, a conventional spreader shifted the load to the rear eventually going over center and lifting the tractor up slightly reducing traction, a real problem in snow

10:16 that is a side delivery spreader

Our farm was Allis until the late 70s and have been Deere ever since

Would have been nice to see the bigger D series tractors.

My friend is a collector of all things allis Chalmers. Would anyone know of someone selling a antique Allis Chalmers lawn sprinkler? And if you didnt know they made these? You would be shocked 😲 at how mnay things allis made.

Does anybody know what that tractor was that was pulling the gleaner combine in the video?!... Very curious!!!

Is thare a allis chalmers model E D40 tractor lots in devon uk in the 60 and 70 good one

Apart from Motorcycles, Aeroplanes, Ships and Cars, is there anything that Allis Chalmers didn't make.

g"s were made in the sixties and another time in the seventies. i have a 71 g and it is diesel and hydro

How do I donate a Allis Chalmers B10 Garden tractor?

In Polk county Wisconsin the town of luck someone uses on of those little round ballers ever year

In 37 a years wages was about $750.

Not popular in the South, at least north east Florida . In 1981 I was looking to get a larger tractor then John Deere 3020's we had. Looked at a International 1086, gear shift on both sides of the seat, no. Ford 9600, no. Drove 50 miles to the AC dealership, cab was about the size of a jet fighter, no. OK, try the JD 4440, love. Today farms here are about 95% John Deere. A few Challengers and Kubotas. My neighbor has two Kubotas for light work but that is probably because his wife's Uncle owned the local Kubota dealership.

$500 in 1938 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $10,757.55 today

The PTO pulley is in the rear of the tractor

Why did I not see a allis Chalmers b112

That was the problem with Allis Chalmers.....They made everything.....but in the end.....they made nothing. Nice tour . Thank you.

good video BUT I'm a AC fan & you didn't show any.

Cool video. The narrator is a bit odd...but otherwise, it's a good video. :)

Spent many hours baling hay with a 175 Alis chalmers

Half allis half Oliver wahasha was Oliver

Wish WEST ALLIS would have done this. Instead they're demolishing all of our history and lively hood of my grandparents & great grandparents

The G has the wrong year it should be 1969

Used to see a lot of C Allis Chalmers engines as a power unit with hand clutch running rides at amusement parks, on ferris wheels, Scramblers and other rides. 60 yrs ago my dad would send my brother or me out to cultivate corn and beans with a C and a 2 row cultivator. Nice video! Thank you.

This was a great video Jeff. Being from Wisconsin I still see a ton of remnants of A-C, they were a silent giant you didn't notice until they were gone. My older brother lives in West Allis, the suburb of Milwaukee were A-C was from. Such a cool town with great history.

That's a great museum, glad to see all that equipment under a roof. Fantastic that they have the original factory sign from the Milwaukee factory!

my father had a wd45 with the narrow front and a loader, my older brother told me he remembers pushing snow with it. another brother said he knows where it currently is, depending on its condition i would like to have it.

That Skywalk was above south 70th Street in West Allis, WI. Very cool to see that sign still survives, as well as a good segment of the factory buildings. I live 4 blocks from the main site.

real interesting I am from the UK my father had an Allis Chalmers fork lift in the 70s it was left here in the UK I believe from the US forces he bought it at a sale I used it regularly untill 1991 when I sold it and replaced it with a more modern fork lift. it was a good starter and worked well the only problem we had was once with the drive but soon got it fixed it had tilt and small side shift on it

thank you for bit about the electric motor. Allis-Chalmers also made electric motors, turbines for power plants (before Siemens) and other electrical equipment.

Hi from New Zealand. I used to own an HD6 Allis Chambers bull dozer would be very interested to see the range of there bulldozers and crawler tractors through the years

Curtis is also responsible for the creation of the All-Crop combines.

My cousin had a roto baler the bale's were a pain in the but to try to mow

West Allison wi

thats a great museum

@ 8:14 it's a 1938. The only year Allis used cast front wheel centers with wedge bolt rims. Hand crank only models didn't have a choke rod to the operators station. Ya didn't need it back there, because you had to be out front to crank it. @11:07, that is not a B, It's a C. A B didn't have a wide enough rear wheel spacing to use it on a 2 row cultivator, and B's never had a narrow front end or a single front wheel.

I believe that the turbines in the Hoover dam were manufactured by Allis.

Awesome!! My father had a WC when I was growing up .

That was a fun time up there. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful museum. I grew up with Alis Chambers and Gleaner combines. Farming has come a long way, but it is wonderful to look back to a by-gone era.