hydralic cylinder

[mike plotner]

anyone ever seen a case hydralic cylinder? i think i have one. it came with a 494 corn planter i bought this spring. it was covered in dirt and grease. after i washed it off i saw what looked like case implement green and flambeau red on it. i think i saw eagles cast into it too
 

[Case Nutty 1660]

I have a dozen or so of them oldest double acting implement cylindersI have are from bail hitches on SC/DC tractors, I have never sen one with implement green before, would be interesting to see a pic if you can cnt
 

[mike plotner]

ill try Mr. Nutty. the cylinder is kinda funny looking. it has a fairly small diamter bore though
 

[casecollectorsc]

I agree. The oldest ones we have do have a depth control on them and are about 4" in diameter. Never seen any green ones. The lifting bail ones are a short stroke cylinder not the 8" stroke.
 

[Case Nutty 1660]

good to know as I have never measured the bail cylinders, the next oldest I have, have the mechanical depth stop also I think I have 3 1/2" as well as 4" most of the ones I have are late "30 and 70" series with the hyd lock depth stops all of these are 4" I even have two NOS barrels for these late ones cnt
 

[mike plotner]

here it is! with the VAC in the background of course!
 

[1031D]

That is an original John Deere ram from the 2 cylinder letter series tractors.
 

[bradley martin]

The early Case cylinders had the mechanical depth control and were available either as 3&1/4" bore or later a 4" version. They were great cylinders, although eventually the grooves on the depth latches would round off and then slip. I have rebuilt several. I have been told by a former dealer that they were manufactured at the Burlington backhoe factory.
 

[4435]

Bradley, A little history as I know it. Had an Uncle worked in Wichita at Cessna (must been a pretty savvy guy) died In1972. Cessna made a run of cylinders for Case, For some reason they didn't work or work right so they went to the scrap heap, the engineers couldn't figure the problem out so I was told. Uncle Glen asked for a couple of them, snuck them back inside and fixed the problem. I can remember Dad had one on the 3-14 AW plow he pulled with the DC it was a 4 inch. When Dad traded the DC in on the 730 the dealer knew the story and swapped him a brand new cylinder for the old 4 inch.