Anyone Own a Hydra Creeper

[rustyjunk]

Looking for a Hydra Creeper like came on Super A's and C's. Didn't know if anyone actually had one. Thanks

 

[used red MN]

Are you sure such a thing exist? Was it an IH option or an add on made by some other company?
Gene Bender or Rustred would now. Maybe they think your question is just to rediculous for a
reply. Such as when I hear ...Hydro... associated with the IH brand I think of the true hydrostatic
drive tractors of the 70s and 80s like the 826, Hydro 70, Hydro 100 etc. I personally don?t know the
A and C models that well. Is this an option that would be used for vegetable production, that is
even more out of my league.

 

[Bob]

(quoted from post at 22:24:18 03/13/18) Are you sure such a thing exist? Was it an IH option or an add on made by some other company?
Gene Bender or Rustred would now. Maybe they think your question is just to rediculous for a
reply. Such as when I hear ...Hydro... associated with the IH brand I think of the true hydrostatic
drive tractors of the 70s and 80s like the 826, Hydro 70, Hydro 100 etc. I personally don?t know the
A and C models that well. Is this an option that would be used for vegetable production, that is
even more out of my league.

used red, you DOUBT rustyjunks' word?

Take a look at the last 4 lines in this page from the Super A parts catalog...

 

[Adrian Billheimer]

OOOO, A very much sought after item for a collector in the know, saw a couple parts of one, not complete, on E-bay a couple years ago, was around 4-500, don't know what it sold at. If you find a complete one and don't want it, let me know.

 

[K-Mo]

If you want it for originality, probably hard to come by. If you want it for function, it's just a hydraulic motor connected to the PTO shaft.
I thought about it onetime, but decided against it because it requires the clutch to be disengaged placing the throw out bearing in continuous use.
Hopefully the hydraulic system is adequately engineered. The Touch Control System is an intermittent load on the small pump, but the creeper is a continuous load.
Just my thoughts, but each their own.

 

[gene bender]

Good luck in finding one probably would be easier to make one with a hy motor hooked to the pto . Been to many shows but i have never seen one just have read about them. Probably one is setting someplace in a fence row just like the gear box used on the drive shaft to lower ground speed used in Wisconson for the Ginseing crops mounted in the bell housing below the batt box area. This one is shown at the Old Treshers in Mt. Pleasant ,Ia. I have never been able to meet the owner.I have talked to people in the area where they were used but thats as far as i have got. The shift lever comes out one of the rear bosses on the left side goes back to a levernext to the PTO lever. There is also a site glass showing lube level where shift lever comes out so you just cannot see the gear box.

 

[rustyjunk]

There is a video on Youtube of one on a Super A, if you'll search Hydra Creeper. I remember the one on Ebay a few years back, I thought it was $1000 but nobody bought it.

 

[AlinMO]

(quoted from post at 10:51:54 03/14/18) There is a video on Youtube of one on a Super A, if you'll search Hydra Creeper. I remember the one on Ebay a few years back, I thought it was $1000 but nobody bought it.

Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yakqsJUYKic.. (Probably not best practice standing in front of moving tractor, but hey).

 

[D7fever]

They made them , we had one . Put it on the 140 to pull the cucumber picker, took it off to cultivate the
next spring, put it back on after cultivating. Had IH right in the casting. Had to be careful when taking
it off or you would get a bath of hy-tran fluid. Worked good, real slow.

 

[Eason]

They were built by IH and offered through parts. We used a mechanical creeper that ran off the crankshaft pulley and had a driveshaft that went under the platform. A sprocket on the driveshaft drove a sprocket on the pto. The clutch pedal had to be tied down to disengage the clutch and the tractor was driven by the pto.

 

[Bob]

WHY would you have to tie down the clutch vs. simply just leave the transmission in neutral? NOT trying to start an argument here, but but wondering?

 

[Bob]

Thought about it a bit more and figured it out. Clear as mud, now!

 

[SodBuster87]

(quoted from post at 19:41:22 03/16/18) WHY would you have to tie down the clutch vs. simply just leave the transmission in neutral? NOT trying to start an argument here, but but wondering?

Not an expert but pretty sure it was because you were back feeding a trans with a trans driven non live pto . similar to when you have a machine such as a mower and try to stop with a non live pto. If trans was in neutral you would not move. Trans worked normaly except driven from pto instead of clutch. Sod Buster

 

[Eason]

Bob you had to do the same thing on a hydra creeper. It drove the tractor through the pto.

 

[PretendFarmer]

They must have worn out throw out bearings quick.

 

[rustyjunk]

If anyone finds one or parts of one please contact me at:
[email protected] Thanks