Half Century of Progress Show TANDEM Tractor 

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Had a large farmer in west river south Dakota put two 1030 cases together making over 200hp made several units like it after it proved. Itself being successful

You are correct! The front one is WD 45 not a straight WD

@@jonmiller8991 What makes you think it's a WD45? Don't say "because it has a curved gear shift", because there were nearly 20,000 WD's shipped from the factory with the constant mesh transmission and a curved gear shift.

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@@bluegrallis I didn't see a side plate on motor. Also has distributor not a mag has cowbell. I'd guess front tractor is a 45

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They might have swapped in a WD engine, but the tranny and brake levers on the second tractor are clearly WC. A WD in tandem with a WC would make only 3 hp more than a WD45.

@@tractorsold1 Yes but didn't WC have same size motor as WD 201 I think WD-WC would out pull 45? Thanks

@@donvoll2580 correct. The 201 was in both the WC and WD.

​@@tractorsold1don't follow you there the combination of two tractor together us what you horse power would be. In this case hp of the WD45 plus WC much more than what you stated

@@joescheller6680 I was comparing the combination of WD and WC to a WD45 alone. Not a WC with a WD45.

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@@lolatingey3608 I live in Ontario, I do driving for Mennonite neighbors, those are my plans. Thanks

I wouldn't call it a 'common' thing that farmers did. Some farmers took the other route of either transplanting a bigger engine in their existing tractor or adding horsepower by rebuilding the engine. Out our way we had farmers that added turbo chargers to Massey Ferguson tractors; LP gas injection to diesel Olivers; my dad upped the compression ratio on his Super W6 International to jack the power from 41 hp to about 60 hp. He did some other engine mods also at the time. The tandem tractors were just the most obvious to recognize ways to pull bigger equipment. I've always been surprised that most of these tandem rigs I've seen, in person or in videos, were two dissimilar tractors. The featured tractor here is the combination of a WC and WD instead of being a pair of either one. The idea of injecting LP gas into a diesel engine first appeared in the over the road trucking industry. In that application it was intended to add horsepower to get over a hill or mountain but wasn't intended to be applied full time. I had the local Oliver mechanic tell me one time about doing test installs of these devices in local tractors to try out the concept. Later, another friend mentioned that he had a senior college engineering job of tracking how these installation were working for Oliver. The mechanic told me that like all boys, farmers couldn't resist turning up the injection rates until they dynamited the engines. He also mentioned that it was pretty funny to get the call from the farmers about how the engine had 'failed' in the field when in reality the LP tank had run out and the farmer was back to the normal power settings. The 1950's saw a lot of innovative ideas applied to tractors both by farmers and the tractor makers themselves trying to get more power to pull bigger tillage tools. Those bigger tools also drove a big change in the look of farms as the smallish 5 to 10 acre pasture fields were expanded into larger fields more accommodating to bigger equipment.

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Very very cool. Thank you for sharing.

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@@lolatingey3608 I got a Fendt Toolcarrier. The previous and my modell could be fitted with a so called Start-Stop, which was alowing the operator to get it moving from the ground instead of sitting in the drivers seat. It was mechanical and had the same function like this system, operating clutch and brake while the engine speed was fixed to its level or also controlled by it. Sadly it is forbidden now by law to mount it back on.

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@@lolatingey3608 my day was great how was yours ?

Dad similarily attached together 2 AC-WD45, using a hand rod lever attached to the hand clutch of the 2nd tractor, along with a electric kill switch! Tremendous horse power, pulling 4 × 16" bottom Oliver plow, or a 10' disk! Only problem was tractors jack knifeing when turning and raising plow out of ground on headlands. Fond memories, thanks for video!!! Now we operate 2 STEIGER PANTER III which drarf the same AC-WD45, which we have owned till recently but was lost in a shed fire. All 9 of my siblings as kids operated this AC-WD45 because of the hand clutch which was immersed in a oil bath. ACT DELAVAN, WI

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@Paul Rusch How are you doing today? I hope you are doing good

It happens allot at the show. Dry plowed ground with big chunks get in the blades. You really have to use a sledge hammer to knock them out.

Not a waste at all if you already owned the two ACs. The kit would have been the cheapest way to use what they had to get twice as much work done with one operator.