any idea what this tractor is? found in Idaho
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I agree a Allis RC model. Looks like some one configured it for construction use or it was a county owned tractor.
No PTO of Belt Pulley on it so wasn't a road side ditch mower.
Al
No PTO of Belt Pulley on it so wasn't a road side ditch mower.
Al
Cat is correct 
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It's a Allis Chalmers RC. A/C manufactured them for farmers who needed a second tractor to field work that couldn't or didn't want to pay the price of another WC. A/C thought that farmers would buy the RC to use for cultivating and other drawbar work because all the WC mounted tools still fit this frame.
You could get the RC with flatbelt pulley PTO and also 540RPM rear PTO. You could also get the mechanical lift and manual driveline kickout which stopped the travel of the tractor but left the PTO live to finish a bale in A/C's round baler. These were options to keep the cost down.
Today RC's are hard to find because they used a different rear end gearing that lots of A/C pullers pulling the WC's really want to improve their power by turning the engines faster in the 3mph stock classes.
When I was collecting A/C tractors back in the 90's, the RC was one I could never find at a decent price.
!It's a Allis Chalmers RC. A/C manufactured them for farmers who needed a second tractor to field work that couldn't or didn't want to pay the price of another WC. A/C thought that farmers would buy the RC to use for cultivating and other drawbar work because all the WC mounted tools still fit this frame.
You could get the RC with flatbelt pulley PTO and also 540RPM rear PTO. You could also get the mechanical lift and manual driveline kickout which stopped the travel of the tractor but left the PTO live to finish a bale in A/C's round baler. These were options to keep the cost down.
Today RC's are hard to find because they used a different rear end gearing that lots of A/C pullers pulling the WC's really want to improve their power by turning the engines faster in the 3mph stock classes.
When I was collecting A/C tractors back in the 90's, the RC was one I could never find at a decent price.
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If you look at this one in the post above you can see the PTO gearbox and shaft under the transmission. The first tractor has the PTO gearbox but the output shaft is missing.
Also, you may have noticed but the RC and WC can really be a lot of fun to drive when you need to use the brakes to stop or turn sharp. There were several aftermarket companies back in the day that made a foot brake conversion for these tractors.
Around 1960 my Massey Harris tractor family switched to AC tractors.
Al
Al
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