Strainge tractor on Craigslist

[Anonymous-0]

Do any of you look on craigslist for tractors? for a different looking tractor go to California,to San Diego,then to farm+garden on july 3 rd. there is a tractor I have never seen before, almost looks home built? Stan

 

[Bob]

Interesting... Case? sheetmetal hung on a Ford car frame?

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[Rustyj14.]

Its a Homade tractor! Known as a "Doodle-bug"! Model A front axle, hubs, possibly steering coulmn, too. Model A frame, too (model T frames didn't have the frame horns like that one has!) Looks like possibly a rear bumper from a '33 or later Ford.
I can't see the engine, but it is probably a Model T or A.
The hood and hood sides are nothing i have seen, but possibly some old small garden tractor. Or maybe, from a Crosley car!
The old timers (when i was in my early years), built those things from old T and A parts. I had 4 of them i had bought in my area. One Model A homader that i had, I built a snow plow on it, and made spending money plowing out driveways in our area.
Remember, back in the late Depression days, farmers and others didn't have enough money to afford a new tractor, so, with an abundance of old Model A's and T's laying around, seemingly behind every barn, or down back in the woods, so they utilised them, in lieu of bought tractors!
I even had one that the previous owner had modified to run between the narrow rows in his garden! The wheel track was about 2 1/2 feet wide! Back in the 1950's they were easy to find out behind the barns! And cheap!