What is it?

[Achto 27,609]

Found this tractor that I'm interested in buying, but I have no idea how much to offer. Can anyone tell me what it is? Any pics of what it should look like would be great too,if anyone has some.

 

 

Edited February 26, 2016 by achto

[DennisThornton 4,769]

Oh my!  What is that?  Well, it's a tractor and of course I like it, but...  Man!   Might take a bit but I think someone will be with you, well, in a while...

 

I have no idea!  You got anymore pics?

[Achto 27,609]

These are the only pics I have, I can try to get more.

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,337]

That circle on the front of the hood made me think it's a Baird Beaver at first......but I'm already second guessing myself.

  Maybe a Speedex?

 

Mike.....

 

[Phatboy 565]

Does it have a rear end that looks like someone too it out of a car ? If so its a pennsylvania Panzar,, thats my guess Look on the home page , and there is a post for one of them for sale it has pics,,, 

Edited February 26, 2016 by Phatboy

[Achto 27,609]

23 hours ago, Phatboy said:

Does it have a rear end that looks like someone too it out of a car ?

The rear end doesn't look like a car axle, I believe it is chain drive. It has a really crude transmission.

I've combed through a lot of pics, Springfield, Devere Locke, Panzer, Speed Ex, Roper, Rugg, but I haven't seen anything that looks like this thing. Kinda driving me a little crazy.

[Aldon 4,826]

My guess is for something not yet mentioned. I can't match up the extruded oval on front. 

 

Hopefully someone one identifies it so I can stop surfing net:-)

[tunahead72 2,424]

1 hour ago, achto said:

.. I haven't seen anything that looks like this thing. Kinda driving me a little crazy...

 

The only solution to that particular problem is to just buy it.

[Achto 27,609]

Well my biological alarm clock went off at 4am this morning, so I decided to do a little more looking for a while. In my search I came up with this picture and a name.

It sure looked like the tractor I'm interested in. Picture is small but now that I had a name I looked for more pics.

One thing I remember was thinking how crude the transmission was, it's been a while since I looked at this thing. This picture confirmed that I had found the right name for the tractor. That's the transmission I remembered.

Enough talk. From the great state of Indiana.... the "McLean" tractor.

This one is not one of their 3 wheeled (Big Wheel) models, but I'm quite sure that it is a McLean. Now that I have a name & a price in my head, The next challenge, finding the owner. He's hard to get a hold of, Almost as hard as finding this name was. Thanks for looking everyone.

 

[Aldon 4,826]

Achto, I got to hand it to you mate, that was seriously a treasure hunt just to identify it. As little info as is on the Internet, it seems it must be rare indeed. Kinda a cool project if you can obtain it and put it in working order again.

 

Happy Hunting!

[Achto 27,609]

Purchase is made, just have to wait for the snow to melt enough so I can get to it. With no parts readily available I think this is going to be a great challenge.

[Aldon 4,826]

4 minutes ago, achto said:

Purchase is made, just have to wait for the snow to melt enough so I can get to it. With no parts readily available I think this is going to be a great challenge.

Document the build in the non wheel horse section. It should be very enlightening.

[Achto 27,609]

1 minute ago, Aldon said:

Document the build in the non wheel horse section. It should be very enlightening

I will be sure to do that.