Yeah, I'm not allowing myself to go to Auctions anymore - I've been trying to sell things so my property doesn't become a "scrap yard", but the harder I try to sell stuff, the more I buy? Makes good sense - definition of "hey, you're doing it wrong" 🙃
Don’t want your place looking like Kevin and Mook’s!… nothing wrong with a city Bloke doing country things. By the way I like your city music. Good job Luke. I think we’d get along if we were in the same country. Hi from Sydney Australia
Man that moment when you were on the tractor with your wife, that was special and that smile you looked like the happiest man on earth at that moment. Hell of a woman you got there. Hold her close
Glad to see a women enjoying life not on Instagram begging for likes or showing her assets. I also married a farm girl, one from West Virginia. Her Dad got her a horse at age 7. She is a first born, so she did all the farm work gladly. I married her at 20, I was 19, best women ever, married now for 37 years. I would guess these two will stay married, not like most Instagram, social media ho's all over the internet. Real women are great. Farm girls are better.
Add a bale chute extension to that baler before she falls through reaching for a bale and teach her to drive the tractor properly so Luke can get some manly exercise. Man I would love a wage of a buck an hour for every hour I spent driving various size Farmall tractors from the time that I was big enough to reach the pedals, I would be rich.
Haters of the music????? Love the old school HM you play on your intro and the country folk you play during the show!! Do love the equipment and vehicles you share with us!!
The sounds suspiciously like the late, great Layne Staley. I can't fault you there. Haters gonna hate, as they say. Some of those country folk could use a little more heavy rock music in their lives. This is the first video of yours that I've seen, and you've already made a subscriber out of me. Looking forward to more!
I'm pushing 70 and grew up on a vegetable farm in Michigan, so a tractor video always brings back memories. I learned how to drive on a 51 Farmall Cub that was about the same size as the Allis. I even remember having to crank start it occasionally. One thing a lot of you young guys don't realize is that most tractors and even cars and trucks were positive ground back then. Thanks for a fun video. I think we know who that tractor belongs to now.
I said the same thing. He should fix it up where it runs good and give it to his wife. She's a good partner. She deserves to have something to work with and call her own. Thats how you get her invested in what you are doing.
As a country kid in the city, I know exactly how you feel with all the looks. Folks can be a little goofy. I asked my wife one time if I had food on me or something, she goes "you're the only pair of overalls for 100 miles around..."
@@ThunderHead289 it looks like you got a pretty decent lawnmower she just needs a little bit of work and an oil change and she will be ready to go to work!
Luke, your videos are always interesting and engaging. You have a knack for explaining things in ways anyone can understand. I don't have an ounce of farming experience in me but for some reason I love watching these old tractors come back to life and do their thing. The stories they could probably tell. I love the car stuff, but appreciate the changeups like this. Thanks for continuing to put out content even with your busy life. I think I can speak for most when I say we were bummed to see you step away from RU-vid for a while.
Ok, so just how did you become SO lucky?!? Three running tractors for the price of one, a wife that not only tosses bales, drives a tractor, brings home the bacon, AND puts up with your antics?!? Certainly glad the Long Honeymoon is still front & center! Congrats! & Thanx !
That smaller one looks like the perfect size to be used as a basic lawnmower that you know will be working perfectly well for decades as long as you take care of it.
That’s when they built tractors that the farmer could fix on his own. One adjustable wrench, one #2 flat blade screw driver, players with wire cutter and of course a small roll of baler wire. Grandpa tell me about the good old days. Luke you made some very awesome buys there !👍👍👍🙏🏽🇺🇸😎✌🏻
I just found the video with you, junkyard digs, and vice grip and didn't know you guys were all in one video. Love the channel, and I'm glad you're messing with older tractors like they are too
Tractor videos are great, but i think we all have vested interest in your old Galaxy that we've watched sitting for years. Its great that your wife gets involved with your shenanigans. I'll bet y'all are a blast.
Honestly, you can never go wrong with with that old Farmall. Those were basically my entire childhood, being my grandfather had 4 of similar vintage. He also had a '67 F-100 that never ran, and a Bicentennial Edition '76 F-150. Both were the same color blue as yours. If I remember correctly Ford called it Bermuda Blue. You're a lucky man to have such a good wife that wants to help around the farm.
Amazing the Farmall baled as well as it did with minimal HP. The Farmall C row-crop tractor used the International Harvester C113 engine. It is a 1.9 L, 1,853 cm2, (113.1 cu·in) four-cylinder natural aspirated gasoline engine with 76.0 mm (2.99 in) of the cylinder bore and 102.0 mm (4.02 in) of the piston stroke. The compression ratio rating is 5.3:1. This engine produced 23.4 PS (17.2 kW; 23.0 HP) of output power.
This video reminds me so much of my youth between 12-15 when I worked on my uncles farm in the summers. I had the job of stacking bales then my uncle got a baler with a kicker on it to shoot the bale into the hay wagon. He had John Deere B and 50 and A and more models. I rode the hay wagon, the combine as the bagger. What a dusty job that was. I would spend all day on the tractor plowing and harrowing fields, as well as mowing and raking the hay into windrows. There was always something to do. Never a dull day. I came back home to return to school fit for football and wrestling etc. Great memories. I enjoy all your videos.
Grew up running a Farmall C with that exact bailing setup. Have a picture on my cabinet of my best friend looking back at the wagon while driving it. He was killed in a trucking accident. Brings back great memories. Thanks.
She's a keeper Luke!...uh your wife that is!😁👍 Doctor Smart, yet willing to do hard work & support your shenanigans, Wow! She is a precious Gem! You are really blessed from God. As for the AC you got started, that over filled oil bath air cleaner may have helped preserve the cylinders & top end, kinda like pickling oil spray before storage. Thanks for sharing the "lost methods" that are disappearing as us old timers leave this mortal coil. Even we need to be reminded of the basics now & then! God bless you & your wife! Paul from S. Central Tx.
Uh-oh, Luke's got tractor fever! Now that you have an orange Model B and a red Model C, you need to get a green Model A to complete your set. One with the hand starting flywheel so you can demo that. So good to see Dr. Mrs. Luke being careful getting those bales off of the baler. Wear your sunscreen!
Thanks so much for posting this video. When my parents built their house right before I was born, my dad bought a 1952 Allis Chalmers model C, almost identical to the one you have here. When you were about to start it, I knew exactly the sound that it would make, and I got the biggest smile when I heard it. My earliest memories are of riding on my dad‘s lap while he mowed the yard with it. He used to farm 5 acres of their land with a single blade plow to grow soybeans when I was very young. Fast-forward 48 years later, and Dad still has the old AC. He uses it now to mow those fields, which have long since been converted to grass pastures for cutting hay. ❤
Man, that little Farmall C has got it's work cut out for it (at 23 hp.), pulling that JD baler and a wagon as well! I couldn't tell you how many HUNDREDS of wagons I hucked bales onto!! We had 200 acres on hilly ground in Pa. back in the 60's. We had 3 of those A/C tractors, a WD, CA, and a D17. For their size, the Allis-Chalmers were the most powerful tractors at the time for medium sized farms. That C with the belly mower is around the same horsepower as the Farmall C (23 hp.) The CA had a few more ponies from the factory, and a little bit different hydraulic system. Seeing as it already has a 12v. system and coil, it would probably be a plan just to convert it to an alternator and get rid of the troublesome generator. It looks like a 6v. gen anyways, and although you can get them to charge a 12v. battery if you crank the regulator up, it's not good for them. I was really surprised the mower worked without issues right out of the gate!😄 The wifey seems to like it.. it's just her size!😉
Very cute little Allis-Chalmers tractor. My grandpa had a farm implement store in Dike Iowa when that unit would have been new. Who knows, maybe that one was bought from him.
Great video! I enjoy seeing people rescue the old machines and put them back to work. You are right about it just taking a little of the right know how and patience to get them going again. Your wife seemed to be enjoying it too. Thanks for sharing.
Luke, haven't seen many of your videos for some time and it looks like there's been a lot of changes in where your shop and home is. Maybe not but over the years I've enjoyed your episodes because of your incredible automotive diagnostic skills (which are fun to guess along with) and more importantly your talent to teach in a clear and humorous manner that I believe makes us viewers want to keep alive the knowledge of engine/mechanical technology. You're doing a great service and making it fun. As an old guy I appreciate the sparking of enthusiasm to keep remembering and learning. Thanks.
I commented before the end of the video and just loved when the rain hit and when your wife(sorry I don't remember her name) was running the rig, I laughed and smiled. You guys look happy and that's what it's all about. Ride on Luke.
I grew up with a B AC tractor. I spent hundreds possibly thousands of hours on that tractor. I drove that thing nearly every day from approximately 8 years old to into my mid teens. Two things I would update on the C are a points elimination system like Perteonix or equivalent and a Delco one wire alternator to replace the generator. Also, the radiators are a bit undersized on those tractors for hot summer mowing. My dad modified the fan pully for a higher speed fan. Great finds and a great video!
I’m loving the farm machinery videos. Something this important had to be useable and easily maintainable I guess. It’s great that in the USA you have enough space to store these units, whereas in the uk they tended to be moved on once the tractors were “upgraded”. Great job 👏
Good morning from Cape Cod ⛵ congratulations on a successful first run of that tractor, first drive and first mow 👍 your wife looked happy and at home on that tractor 👍 keep up the great work and the awesome content Luke ✌️🇺🇲
That was a hilarious story about buying the Farmall 😂😂😂😂. A good buy too. Your wife can chuck some bails, I’ve done a lot of bailing in my life and I know that’s a workout. 👍🏻Tell her to save some energy and not drag them up the chute, let the bailer push them up onto the rack it saves steps and work.
Love to see a discussion or collaboration with the guys from NNKH AND VGG. You guys share a love of the old farm machines. Great content all around. Thanks for the video
Thank You Luke. Favorite parts were you cleaning the oil bath filter reservoir with the old gas and you and your wife together smiling on the old tractor. It's always a good time and learning experience with you and the whole Gang. Love y'all.
If you haven't been around narrow front tractors much, they were designed for cultivating crops so you could turn tight and get back into the next group of rows. However, at road speed or steep hills they too easily roll and kill people. So make sure you know what you are doing when operating them. I'd move the belly mower from the narrow front to the wide front tractor.
It's so awesome that you're keeping these old pieces of American history going. It's a dying art. To have the knowledge to save these awesome machines. How on you man👍🇺🇲
You have no idea how heartwarming this video is for this old Farm Boy from Illinois. Our Farmall was similar the C I think it was a M. I loved it. It looked like the classic Tractor. Yours runs so strong that is wonderful. My Dad remarried a Lady her Name was Alice but she was called Ace, I never understood that. Her family had Allis Chalmers. She liked to drive the Allis Chalmers so much her brothers Nic Name was ACE, for Allis Chalmers. OK Gonna finish watching Dennis
Be careful with the hand crank starting if you do that on one of these old rescues. Technique is to keep your body to the right hand side of the tractor and lift the crank from 7 to 11 o'clock. Other techniques will break hands, wrists, arms, or kills when the crank sticks in the running engine.
Those old Farmall C and Super C tractors are some of the best “antique style” general use tractors ever made. Simple, easy to work on, very reasonably priced, fuel “efficient”, and fantastic parts availability. The Super C especially can and does still have a very valid usage case on many properties all across the country. Glad to see you still using and enjoying that great example of “Red Power”.
Hello Uncle Luke I love your RU-vid channel, I like old classic lawn and Gardening Equipment and cars n trucks. And I am Sorry this is my first time living a comment on your channel.
You got an ACE 2.0 going on there. So fun, you two are a real hoot. Great Video Thank You for sharing, We had a Glass Gas jug just like that I used for the lawn mower, We also had a littel Farmall 300 sized about like that AC we used it with a rear blade and front bucket to clean the barn and push the snow. Easier to start and enough poop for those jobs. Take Care guys, Blessing Luke and Ace!, D
That whole shebang is so much you, Luke! The farm, the trucks, the trailer, the tractors, notthing is out of place, and you're the type of guy you'd expect to find on such a farm! BTW, that picture with your wife on the tractor with the barn in the background was just beautiful; it looks like it came straight from the fifties! Looks like you have a little piece of paradise over there! :D
3 cells = 6 volts.... that C is a classic. grew up with a Farmall A, H, and M on the farm, Red Power lol. neighbor had the ACs. those carbs last forever. perfect size for your wife👌🤘👍🚜
It's smart to move things along, you paid about $500 bucks apiece for those tractors, I don't think you need all three of them plus the others you already have, so get them running and move one or two of them along and enjoy your free tractor. It's really unusual for anyone in the mechanical hobby to be able to make money on any deals, this seems like an area where you can do that and feed your hobby. I love the simplicity of those things!
I agree, as a retired mechanic I went through dozens of cars and trucks, many were sold when they weren't even for sale at the time, if there's profit to be made it's sold, there's always other cars/trucks out there...
If you substitute the 'big' Allis Chalmers for the Farmall and a New Holland baler for the John Deere then you'll have the setup I was familiar with as a 11 YO city kid working on a tobacco/dairy farm in PA's 'Amish country' way back in the '60s. Hard work, but very satisfying as I look back! Your type of equipment is exactly what we used to rake and bale back in the day. 🙂
If you're getting those tractors out there for those prices, then i obviously need to start attending auctions in Iowa! Those were great purchases in my book!
That lawnmower carb video had me wondering if you had died of suspicious circumstances. Glad to see your still making videos. I hope you make another fuel vapor video in the future.
I like all three tractors. One of my earliest memories is sitting on my great grandfather's lap, and pulling the ignition loop (I guess that's what you would call it) on an Allis Chalmers, and it started, and I got to "drive" it (he allowed me to touch the steering wheel). I actually raked hay with a Farmal Model H, similar to your IH. Lastly, bailing hay that way is not easy at all. Those bales weigh at least 40-50 pounds, and are awkward to move around stack. Did that a lot as a teenager. Excellent video!
Those old tractors will give you years of service for a fraction of the cost of new. The older equipment was simple and built to last. At least you weren't out in the field when the rain cloud went over. The home state always has exciting weather.
The tractors of my childhood. Them little tractors see the home Luke has for them and the "Fix it don't toss it" attitude of Luke and they know they found a good home. You can tell a guy that drives all his stuff and the guys that don't by which ones leaves the battery's in and hooked up and those that don't.
Neat lil machine. Used one of these with my FFA advisor to plant potatoes using a single point plow. His was older, from the 30s. His d bought it new and was their first tractor. My FFA teacher was in his 60s when i started high school shortly before Y2K
Congratulations you're a very lucky man. It appears that you married very very well your wife seems like a fantastic person. The only thing you have to worry about is trying to keep up with her but that should be half the fun.
Wow! Back about 55 years ago, we used to “stack bales” for a buck and a quarter an hour! Farmer Jones (yes, his real name!) had very similar equipment!
Narrow front end tractors roll very easily. Be very careful on anything beyond level. That is why they stopped building them. As a kid i ran one on our farm. Put the mower deck on one of the wide front end tractors.
"Always buy and keep clean gas" looks like you got yourself a good deal they look to be in pretty good shape I almost hung myself when I was one year old on that little Allis Chalmers I hung by my head for a pretty good while between the brakes or clutch and the axle area I was dangling there for a pretty good while until I give it a final twist and I managed to work my way out of it definitely brings back memories😅
I like how you keep it real. Hope you make more videos because you have a lot of subscribers and I learn something new all the time from your tuning videos
We had a ‘41 Allis WC and it was a tired tractor but would still drag a disc. Guy I did some work for had a “CA” model. He asked me to see if I could get it to run right but the throttle shaft was clattering around in its bore so bad there was no hope. And the distributor shaft was flopping around pretty bad too. So we got rebuilt carb and distributor and she ran like a champ. 👍
Your Layne Staley Music is what hooked us to you long ago! that was what we listed to when going to the shows every weekend in the 90s! & your Old School ways blew us away as not many folks show those methods on here & of course your Ford & Mercury Love! We love all the makes & most models now, even 4 doors, funny how that works! lol
Thanks Luke .It's good to see those old tractors running.Because their the ones my grandpa grew up with.I remember him saying the tractors with the narrow front wheels were kind of tipsy sometimes.
I would be afraid of road gear in one and losing control - but boy I will say they are extremely handy for turning around at the end of rows and tight menuevuring
i have no idea why folks don't like your music, i like it myself, especially the intro/outro song...and will be lookin into your neighbor as well.. Mr. Royce Johns.. keep the tractors comin when ya can.
