MM UDLX

[rusty6]

A nice example of a Minneapolis UDLX tractor sold for big money recently.
Comfortractor

 

[Steve@Advance]

Cool! Don't see them in a fence row very often!

Says it's capable of 40 MPH... How is that possible without suspension? Or maybe it does!

 

[rusty6]

I don't doubt that 40 mph is possible but I doubt it would have been safe considering the roads we had at the time.

 

[RBoots]

Some versions of Silver Kong tractors would run 40+ mph. The one I have has the highest speed ring and pinion of 3 offered and the 36" tires, the tallest offered on it as well. Dad says he could remember 60 years ago riding on it with his grandpa, passing a car on State Road that runs by my house. It's in a pile right now until I get to it this fall, but all the old SK boys tell me it'll run 45 with that setup.

Ross

 

[RBoots]

*King. Stupid auto correct

 

[Denny K]

The early No. 3 Co-op tractor with the flathead Chrysler was governed at 36 IIRC. I heard of one with a wire on the governor doing 55-60 mph. Sweet tractor stacking hay with a farmhand on it. Steered good w/out p/s.

 

[old-9]

How about 96 MPH? Check this tractor out.
Here

 

[WellWorn]

(quoted from post at 16:24:29 06/13/16) I don't doubt that 40 mph is possible but I doubt it would have been safe considering the roads we had at the time.

ust a few days ago, I traveled a back road that the town had replaced a culvert and left just 'dirt' covering it until it settled... there was a slight ridge/dip that had developed that didn't LOOK that bad on approach, but even at just above an idle in 5th on the H, felt as if it put everything about 4" into the air, and me even more atop that spring seat. I can't imagine traveling 15 miles or more of roads like that "going to town", even at 5 mph. At 40mph with no suspension? These were tractors way ahead of their time.

 

[2underage]

We all knew what tractor you meant. I have a 42 model Silver King tractor and I do not know how fast it will go but I can say from experience that it frightened the heck out of me when I did give it a short ride on the highway. It was moving quite fast when I lost my nerve and shoved the throttle lever back toward slow. I can not imagine trying to run that silver streak wide open on some of those dirt roads that were everywhere when I was a kid.

 

[brutus49DC]

What did it bring? I can't get the link to open. I know they were over One hundred thousand dollars many years ago.

 

[RBoots]

That would be quite a speed to try out! Our H does 26 mph on the road, and that feels like it is really moving. I can't imagine 20ish more mph than that, but I'll have to find out when I get it going. I know dad said that after they sold it when he was 6, that the neighbor that bought it let his kids use it to deliver newspapers, but told them if he ever caught them putting it in 4th gear, they would never have anything to drive on their paper route again, they'd be walking! Dad said his grandpa was always afraid the the chain steering would break at road speed, I guess it always worried him

Ross

 

[Philip d]

That's an incredible price for a tractor,the article says that when new they were almost twice as much money as a conventional one so it's quite easy to understand how few were actually sold. The Fendt dealer in our area is having trouble moving them at 30% extra let alone 2x as much.

 

[gene bender]

Fendt dealer is selling what

 

[Philip d]

Sorry,new Fendt tractors

 

[Philip d]

It says it brought $200 000

 

[rusty6]

Interesting story but they are wrong, the flathead V8 was never a factory option on any Ford tractor that I know of. There were companies that would modify your 8N to replace the original 4 cylinder with the flathead V8.
Funk V8

 

[brutus49DC]

yikes, I think I will hold out for a nice 7140 Magnum!

 

[flying belgian]

Got to admit it would be fun driving it to the Thursday night roll-in at the park. But $200,000 fun?

 

[W_B]

We had a Fordson Dexta that we clocked with the truck going slightly over 30 mph. Great fun for us kids that didn't drive yet.