Thank you for the information. Now If I can find out if a remote hrdrlic set up can be put on the unit so I can use the cylinder on my field cultiver and disk harrow.
Way back when I was nearly 12 we were plowing for winter wheat after removing the oat crop. That field was some hard red clay in late August. Dad was fixing to trade off the 54 VAC Case that was considered my tractor as dad used the Massey 44 considered to big for me to handle.
Dad had the Moline dealer Virgle Price Evart Michigan) bring out a tractor to demostrate to us. What he brought was a 445 with a 3 pt mounted 3 bottom plow. The dealer and dad ran a few farrows then dad did a few with me then said to take over. OH the power of that tractor after the case and how it purred set my heart on fire. At the ends of the farrows when the plow was to come out of the ground the tractor and plow untited in protest by lifting the front end for a bit before the plow releasing from the ground. The dealer told dad there was a front weight kit he would throw in the deal.
Dad never did buy a tractor to replace the VAC. Just befor the next spring we had an auction sale and sold all the cattle and equpment.
I always thought there had been a recession that hit farmers hard and dad being one. But being a young boy I am not sure of the reason.
When I started collecting I looked for a nice 445 to add to the collection of tractors I and Kare owned. Never found one I felt nice enough or the same configurmation as that one so long ago till this one.
Al
