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General Forestry => General Board => Topic started by: redbeard on October 18, 2010, 12:09:15 AM

Title: Need help to identify Case Tractor
Post by: redbeard on October 18, 2010, 12:09:15 AM
Trying to figure out year and model of this Case. My grandfather owned it and we lost track of it back in the early 80s.Can anyone Id this antique?  I do know it was gas,it had PTO and a thresher drum on side, It spent its lifetime in Eastern Wa. Selah and Yakima to be exact I think its mid or latter 50s.  Please help if you can thanks

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Title: Re: Need help to identify Case Tractor
Post by: Corley5 on October 18, 2010, 08:02:46 AM
Looks like a VA to me  :)  They were made from 42-55.  That's as close as we can get as to the year without a serial#.
Title: Re: Need help to identify Case Tractor
Post by: Okrafarmer on October 18, 2010, 08:05:08 AM
VA is my guess, unless it is the earlier V. You need to ask Paul Case.
Title: Re: Need help to identify Case Tractor
Post by: Corley5 on October 18, 2010, 08:18:39 AM
It's a VA.  The engine valve cover is evident in the pic.  The V series had flathead Continentals while the VA series had Case's own valve in head engines.
Title: Re: Need help to identify Case Tractor
Post by: paul case on October 18, 2010, 04:34:59 PM
paul case(no relation) thinks you all are right va case. there is a online group of folks at yesterdays tractors.com that love to figure stuff like that out. pc
Title: Re: Need help to identify Case Tractor
Post by: Roxie on October 18, 2010, 04:46:11 PM
We looked in the Case History book and Corley is right!  Who needs yesterdays tractors with experts like these?   :)
Title: Re: Need help to identify Case Tractor
Post by: redbeard on October 18, 2010, 08:20:21 PM
Thanks for info everyone now we can put a name on it in the family album, I was 12 when i drove my first tractor and this was it alot of fond memories some not so good because the brakes never worked that good and you didn't want to loose a gear,especially with no implement on the 3 pt that was the brake. then you were in for a ride the pear trees would always stop you though.