I wonder what the model number is of the Case baler with flat belts and all. Never seen one like that.

Don’t know the Case baler number, but as a kid while my dad was making more modern bales my brother and I would play on a couple of rigs like that in the SJ delta. I recall a water cooled 4 cylinder case engine upfront, flat belt driving it, clutch levers both on the engine and a rod ran to the back platform where the crew was. Two seats on each side of the chamber for the knotter men. The chamber was in the tall and narrow orientation. Lots of stories were told by the old timer hay men as they were waiting for the dew to dry about dropping a guy in the chamber to pack the hay in while it was running, I think they had a mining era name for that operation …. A wooden block was dropped in between each bale for the wire to be passed through and hand tied and a kid would have to fetch that block and bring it back to the crew. The guy up top loading hay in and the tractor driver brought that to 5 men which was a labor saving upgrade to the Petaluma or Monarch press that it replaced in the area.

 

Hi All,
Question what was the serial number of rhe 20000th tractor?

Thanks

I don't know the S/N but I know it was produced in 1936. The first Caterpillar diesel was 1931 and the 10,000th one was in 1935. It took only the following year to reach the 20,000th one!
Craig

Considering the state of the economy in the 1930's , that is very impressive. Since they were still making gas engine machines, even more impressive.

Purchasing IPO Caterpillar stock in the late 1920’s made what would become one large private landholding and real estate development companies quite wealthy with the new deal and large infrastructure projects of the 1930’s.

cr wrote:

Purchasing IPO Caterpillar stock in the late 1920’s made what would become one large private landholding and real estate development companies quite wealthy with the new deal and large infrastructure projects of the 1930’s.

I wonder what the IPO price was then.  I believe the IPO was only a month or two after the big Market crash of 1929.

 

 Hi, Folks.
Some more from my CSU,edu folder:

 

Just my 0.02.