(Even though the WC should have cured me of that.) Having spent my young formative years on my dad’s Allis-Chalmers WC (it being relegated to me after Dad bought a new Ferguson, with all kinds of fancy features like foot brakes), I became somewhat of an Allis-Chalmers fancier. Two of the wide-front WD-45s like ours still reside within a few miles, and its narrow front sister, serial number 182536, is still in harness two farms from ours. The dealership which sold it placed a number of ‘W’ series tractors around our area, including the last ones, the WD-45. Our trusty WD-45 has never been sold since it was new, even though we’re its third owners and it never left ‘home.’ When my uncle died in 1983 he left the farm and machinery to brother and me. When this gentleman died in the early 1960s, he left the farm and machinery to my uncle. Our WD-45, serial number 182535, was purchased new from the dealer located about a mile down the road, by the gentleman my uncle worked for. Well, anyway, people shouldn’t exhibit things I’m still trying to farm with. Why, our WD-45, a 1954 model, is only … ah … let’s see … 1954 from 1999 is …. Just last summer someone brought an Allis-Chalmers WD-45 to our show, exhibited the thing just like it was old.
One thing that really annoys me when attending an old iron show is someone displaying a ‘new’ tractor. 356 Deibler Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania 16865
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