RC 88 With Wheatland Shields

[JohnRowehl]

Old Time Plow Boys Club had this at the Classic Indoor Tractor Show in Lebanon, PA this weekend. I had this in a post a while back. Found out since then that the tractor was originally used somewhere in Canada and then to the next owner in Wisconsin before making its way to Pennsylvania. Took a few close up photos of the shields.

 

[J.Wondergem]

Old Time Plow Boys Club had this at the Classic Indoor Tractor Show in Lebanon, PA this weekend. I had this in a post a while back. Found out since then that the tractor was originally used somewhere in Canada and then to the next owner in Wisconsin before making its way to Pennsylvania. Took a few close up photos of the shields.
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Do you think they were added on by the original owner or Dealer?

 

[rrlund]

Pretty sharp. The next best thing to orchard fenders for styling.

 

[JohnRowehl]

Do you think they were added on by the original owner or Dealer?

Don’t know the answer to that.

 

[Not db4600]

Old Time Plow Boys Club had this at the Classic Indoor Tractor Show in Lebanon, PA this weekend. I had this in a post a while back. Found out since then that the tractor was originally used somewhere in Canada and then to the next owner in Wisconsin before making its way to Pennsylvania. Took a few close up photos of the shields.
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There was a Craigslist listing around the end of the year in central Mn for an 88 with shields and fender extensions..

 

[JohnRowehl]

That was a different tractor. The metadata on a photo I had gotten from one of their club members shows the picture was taken in 2022 when they started the restoration.
(update) I just looked at another photo and it had a date stamp on it from when the previous owner brought it to PA. It shows it as May 9, 2010.

Makes me wonder just how common those shields were on a row crop.

 

[J.Wondergem]

That was a different tractor. The metadata on a photo I had gotten from one of their club members shows the picture was taken in 2022 when they started the restoration.
Makes me wonder just how common those shields were on a row crop.

I was just trying to think of something what would kick up that much dust. Would a mounted corn picker do that? I've never been around one of them. I know the fan on them blows a lot of air back.

 

[Centerplate]

I have standard 77 with those shields. A row crop set is wider.

 

[rrlund]

I was just trying to think of something what would kick up that much dust. Would a mounted corn picker do that? I've never been around one of them. I know the fan on them blows a lot of air back.

You have to take the fenders right off with a picker. There's not much room down in the cockpit when the picker's on. It's dirty in there.

 

[John Schoenauer]

Those dust shields probably came out with the Row Crop Standard Super tractors. I think Oliver cut back on making the Standard or Wheatland tractors. I have seen them on Cockshutt 770 Row Crop Standard tractors also. I don not know if they were a factory (must have been factory on the Cockshutt) addition of field install item.