Skytrak model 710, please read attach

[David Watson]

Please read attached information to help me identify what my wife inherited. Thanks to all.

 

[trackrat]

please send pictures the written info, you have given us could fit several different models of machine

 

[David Watson]

One in use lifting trailer made in 2016. Others 2026.

 

[Jim.ME]

Check this old thread out (please do not put a reply on it). Ill John is the only one of those fellows still around. He likely has not seen your thread down here on the Help Identify Forum. You can click on his avatar and send him a direct message. You could also start a thread on the Minneapolis-Moline Forum, found up the index page a bit from here.

An old thread

 

[trackrat]

One in use lifting trailer made in 2016. Others 2026.

this thread matches what i can find there were a number of those lifts in use in the 60s and 70s most in my area had ford tractors in them they worked well but were kinda crude Parts info will be scarce

 

[Non-farmer]

Please read attached information to help me identify what my wife inherited. Thanks to all.

A bit of info - Anonymous-0 is not an actual user. It is a catch-all identifier applied arbitrarily by the forum software to all posts which are not, for whatever reason, associated with a valid user ID. It is the proverbial Unknown Soldier.

 

[Ill John]

One in use lifting trailer made in 2016. Others 2026.

Those are great pictures, there are some users on the Minneapolis Moline Fan Page on Facebook who can answer all the questions you have. I have a later model Brick Buggy, it's nothing like the one Sky Track, only in the job it was built to do. try the Minneapolis Moline thread on this yesterdays tractor site also John Grandfield I'm thinking yours will have a MM 445 Industrial tractor under all that steel

 

[David Watson]

Those are great pictures, there are some users on the Minneapolis Moline Fan Page on Facebook who can answer all the questions you have. I have a later model Brick Buggy, it's nothing like the one Sky Track, only in the job it was built to do. try the Minneapolis Moline thread on this yesterdays tractor site also John Grandfield I'm thinking yours will have a MM 445 Industrial tractor under all that steel

Thank you for the reply. I did post my question on this site’s MM page yesterday. I just tried to pursue a direct message to JG as you suggest, but unable to find him on YTF with a search. I will try FB next.

 

[Jim.ME]

Thank you for the reply. I did post my question on this site’s MM page yesterday. I just tried to pursue a direct message to JG as you suggest, but unable to find him on YTF with a search. I will try FB next.

John Grandfield's profile as a member here shows he last posted in 2013, that may or may not be right, or he may use a different username now. It appears he is active on the MM Facebook site.

 

[David Watson]

John Grandfield's profile as a member here shows he last posted in 2013, that may or may not be right, or he may use a different username now. It appears he is active on the MM Facebook site.

Thanks. Did find his name plus a MM Worlds’s finest tractors FB site. Messaged JG but not heard back yet. However, now multiple others have replied on FB MM site. Revised as of today (1-27-26). A 445 Industrial series tractor, 206 gas engine, torque converter drive, hydraulic shuttle, with Jetstar transmission and rear end. One owner who has a Skytrak PKG 80, whereas mine is a 78, who supplied most of details. Unable yet to confirm what differences may exist in two PKG #’s. Also yet unclear if a Jetstar 3 or 4 and what that difference is. Year of manufacture not absolute yet either. The PKG 80 was identified as 1969. Getting there thanks to much help from these here and on FB site.

 

[trackrat]

It's not a crawler platform it's based on an industrial wheeled tractor unit usually for a loader backhoe or roller power unit, crawler units have a completely different drive train and steering system

 

[David Watson]

It's not a crawler platform it's based on an industrial wheeled tractor unit usually for a loader backhoe or roller power unit, crawler units have a completely different drive train and steering system

Thank you for the clarification.

Those are great pictures, there are some users on the Minneapolis Moline Fan Page on Facebook who can answer all the questions you have. I have a later model Brick Buggy, it's nothing like the one Sky Track, only in the job it was built to do. try the Minneapolis Moline thread on this yesterdays tractor site also John Grandfield I'm thinking yours will have a MM 445 Industrial tractor under all that steel

At least one response on FB MM site agrees with the 445 series industrial tractor. Plus a 206 engine based on review of these engine pictures I posted there.