Man, I miss the old days where USA made practical life long lasting tractors and home improvement equipment, You can't even get the smallest sub compact tractor for barely $15,000 15K for a damn garden tractor!
@T3chn0ph0b3 I grew up mowing 3 acres on a 70s cadet 1650 hydostat, that thing ripped for a lawn mower. I graduated High School in 2004, it still ran when I left the homestead.
FrequencyOfThought This forklift cost $2500 in 1966. Using a online inflation calculator, thats equal to $19,726 today. For that much money you could buy a brand new John Deere 1023e sub-compact tractor with front scoop and forks. The modern John Deere has transformer like capabilities, meaning you can spend more money to add implements (attachments so you can change equipment) to the front, belly, and rear. By adding accessories, the 1023e can be your shovel, backhoe, lawn mower, fork lift, snow blower, tiller, gravel driveway blade leveler, grapple, rake, sidewalk sweeper, post hole digger, on and on. You can even get a cab enclosure with heat and windshield wiper. Oh, and changing from one implement to the next has never been easier, safer, or faster. You get roll-over protection, low emissions, and far more horse power then the unit shown in this video. Still to expensive? Well, you’re in luck because plenty of China made off-brand competitors exist for thousands less. Once you take into account inflation, the subcompact tractor buyer can get more today then they could in 1966. Check out the UA-cam channel Tractor Time with Tim to see what you can do with a economical, modern sub-compact tractor.
I’ve seen a Simplicity lawn tractor that had an attachment similar to this. The guy that owned it said that it wouldn’t lift much but that it was perfect to raise a deer to skin it.
I remember Steve from the Case forums I used to go on. I had two Case 448’s including the 8th 448 made #9774008 which was a 1979 model. I sold it about 5 years ago, and sold all my Case stuff one at a time. I needed something newer and now I have Toro 5xi tractors.
Wow real nice restore I'm a big case fan don't have a collection but I have a 1973 case 220 full hydraulics still mow with it on occasion just to keep it running good
I know where 1 is that's in shandals. Been in weeds and trees growing around it for years and the owner will not let lose no matter how much money is offered. I thought it was a custom made machine but still very cool. Wish i could get my hands on it. Maybe someday. :/
I know the owner has the right to do whatever they want to but it still kinda pisses me off that people will let things sit and get beyond repair when they have no intention of ever fixing it and won't sell it to someone who wants to fix it..
Bottle Caps That is a fact , got this one in a horse trade , was going to build a quick tatch mast assembly for my farmall A, similar to a Harlow orchard lift but never got around to it , mines been rode hard and put away wet , but it gets me by when I need it , a friend of mine has a very nice lift of the same style brand one or two sizes larger in excellent condition, they are the only two like it I have ever seen .
Indoor Roadkill Cool, I have seen a couple of homade conversions , there used to be quite a few around here in Michigan, I presume due to the vegetable and fruit production that used to be around . Also IH was in Indiana and Ohio , also Harlow did conversions in Chicago. An old collector who was a friend of my uncle's had several he had bought over the yrs , and also explained the history of them to me .
We had a local guy that used old Case lawn tractors to make something similar for nurseries. He made about a dozen of them, in the 80’s. He’s gone now, haven’t seen any of the tractors in years.
Many were made in michigan made by johns 2000 were produced by his factory i believe i have two one is Johns other cant remember made for orchards ih were easyer to convert then case
The other rare old Case was the stretched one turned into something between a UTV and a garden tractor. I think about 50 of those were made too. Then in the 80’s Case made some 60” pull type wing mowers,,, of which I saw one at the first Garden Tractor Daze in Wisconsin about 8-9 years ago when I brought my 79 448 there #9774008 the 8th 448 made. I sold it about 6 years ago.
I need to find a place to get part for my '65 130. unfortunately I let it fall into a state of disrepair. I'd like to get it going again even if it is unrestored
I had a little sears tractor never saw one before it had wings sort of for the back fenders was going to make a little hot rod out of it but sold it must have been from the early or late 60s
At 2:53-56 it looks like it had a boxed frame. Is that the same frame that was used for the later 1972-79 Case 644 FEL (front end loader) Industrial Case tractors? or were all Case Garden tractors using boxed frames and the 644 used a stronger version of this frame?
How is the handling different than other tractor based forklifts ? Almost all I'v seen run the tractor backwards and I'v never heard any one with forklift experience say they handle any different than any other conventional forklift.
I'm sorry but I'm from the country area, when someone says garden tractor we're thinking of something like farmall 140. You know like a tractor for the garden. I've notice a lot of people be calling lawnmowers tractors. Are you talking about a tractor or lawnmower? I have a yanmar 2200 26 hp diesel I do my gardening with, pulling trees, dragging my dirt road, just a all around garden tractor
@@lukebecker1959 thanks. The video kept saying garden tractors but all I seen was lawnmowers. I just was wondering if that was what you had. Sorry, meant nothing by it.
$2500 in 1966 is $20,240 in 2021 dollars, so yea, you can buy a pretty nice used rough terrain forklift for less than that so who would bother. No one.
Built in Alabama. Back when we were proud of our country and state
Pretty cool little forklift. I like how he not only documented the work he did on it but, had documentation on the forklift itself. Stay safe.
That’s sweet. That is a lot of money sitin it that buildin too.
Cool forklift! They should have made more of them 😄👍🙂
You can't beat this stuff! Brilliant!!!
Really cool that was the year I was born beautiful job bringing it back to life
Man, I miss the old days where USA made practical life long lasting tractors and home improvement equipment, You can't even get the smallest sub compact tractor for barely $15,000
15K for a damn garden tractor!
@T3chn0ph0b3 I grew up mowing 3 acres on a 70s cadet 1650 hydostat, that thing ripped for a lawn mower. I graduated High School in 2004, it still ran when I left the homestead.
FrequencyOfThought This forklift cost $2500 in 1966. Using a online inflation calculator, thats equal to $19,726 today.
For that much money you could buy a brand new John Deere 1023e sub-compact tractor with front scoop and forks.
The modern John Deere has transformer like capabilities, meaning you can spend more money to add implements (attachments so you can change equipment) to the front, belly, and rear. By adding accessories, the 1023e can be your shovel, backhoe, lawn mower, fork lift, snow blower, tiller, gravel driveway blade leveler, grapple, rake, sidewalk sweeper, post hole digger, on and on. You can even get a cab enclosure with heat and windshield wiper. Oh, and changing from one implement to the next has never been easier, safer, or faster. You get roll-over protection, low emissions, and far more horse power then the unit shown in this video.
Still to expensive? Well, you’re in luck because plenty of China made off-brand competitors exist for thousands less.
Once you take into account inflation, the subcompact tractor buyer can get more today then they could in 1966.
Check out the UA-cam channel Tractor Time with Tim to see what you can do with a economical, modern sub-compact tractor.
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Amazing. And love the story too! Gotta save them classics!
Wow! It's cool! I've never seen one before!
Neat.and bet it gets used quite a bit.handy
Good for him, just love the preservation answer history of old machines
For those hard to pull root vegetables in the family garden
Thoroughly Wet I guess I know what I’m giving my grandparents for Christmas this year
That is a really rare Case garden tractor and I bet it's handy, I have a small collection in Case Garden tractors also. But not 60 of them :-)
Awsome! Pretty cool ! Very rare
That is very cool
I’ve seen a Simplicity lawn tractor that had an attachment similar to this. The guy that owned it said that it wouldn’t lift much but that it was perfect to raise a deer to skin it.
That is just great, I really enjoyed watching
I remember Steve from the Case forums I used to go on. I had two Case 448’s including the 8th 448 made #9774008 which was a 1979 model. I sold it about 5 years ago, and sold all my Case stuff one at a time. I needed something newer and now I have Toro 5xi tractors.
Wow real nice restore I'm a big case fan don't have a collection but I have a 1973 case 220 full hydraulics still mow with it on occasion just to keep it running good
Very nice, never seen anything like it. Thank you.
I know where 1 is that's in shandals. Been in weeds and trees growing around it for years and the owner will not let lose no matter how much money is offered. I thought it was a custom made machine but still very cool. Wish i could get my hands on it. Maybe someday. :/
Where is it at?
I know the owner has the right to do whatever they want to but it still kinda pisses me off that people will let things sit and get beyond repair when they have no intention of ever fixing it and won't sell it to someone who wants to fix it..
Where do you live? I’m wiling to pay 1k for info and will certainly pay the owner an amount that he can’t refuse
Come on boys lets get this story goin again gunna drive me crazy lets get it allready ..complete the story
I can think of a million uses for that thing!
Everyone needs a small forklift.
As a professional P.I.T driver I second that emotion.
Mr. Guider is a legend in the CCI community.
Cool idea! 👍
Rare Fork Lift, Nice video and a Thumbs Up Liked.
4:36 3 dealer demonstrators in the background.
Great job that thing is sweet
That would be perfect for my tire shop👍😲
Bottle Caps I have a air tired three wheeler with a air cooled Wisconsin' in it , just a bit bigger than that.
@@beckywatt5048 it's hard to find a good little forklift nobody Parts with them
Bottle Caps That is a fact , got this one in a horse trade , was going to build a quick tatch mast assembly for my farmall A, similar to a Harlow orchard lift but never got around to it , mines been rode hard and put away wet , but it gets me by when I need it , a friend of mine has a very nice lift of the same style brand one or two sizes larger in excellent condition, they are the only two like it I have ever seen .
@@beckywatt5048 I have a Farmall A forklift. I always assumed it was homemade. Very crude machine.
Indoor Roadkill Cool, I have seen a couple of homade conversions , there used to be quite a few around here in Michigan, I presume due to the vegetable and fruit production that used to be around . Also IH was in Indiana and Ohio , also Harlow did conversions in Chicago. An old collector who was a friend of my uncle's had several he had bought over the yrs , and also explained the history of them to me .
I like it! 😎👍
What a sweet little forklift never knew case made forklifts until now
That tractor is so stinking awesome!
Very nice and extremely rare.
Awesome machine
Hello from my 1978 448. Still in use
Very cool my friend....
Nice!
Picked up the John deer and carried it AWAY. Shots have been fired.
Yup, he crossed the wrong line!
🤣👌🏻
😂
Very nice forklift
Mountain View Turning no garden tractor ehhhh. IDK
I live in Ohio at the moment, and I'm damn sure is like to visit that place
Amazing. That guy didn't half ass a single one of those. Nice work
We had a local guy that used old Case lawn tractors to make something similar for nurseries. He made about a dozen of them, in the 80’s. He’s gone now, haven’t seen any of the tractors in years.
Nice 🤠💪👍
There's always a good use for a forklift at home!
Man that narow front is soooo cool
I have to say this will be my bucket list for sure. IS the collection of Case up for showing ??? Maybe later this year in the summertime ??? Thanks
That thing is cool! I'd love to have one. (Don't need one) but I still want one! Lol
That’s a cool little rig one of a kind would be worth a few dollars to the right man
Nice video
That lil guy is cool!!😎👍
I have a Case 190 Garden tractor with plow and snow blower. Still runs, looking for that exact muffler that was on the fork lift 190!
So cool. I would love that! Now does that forklift assembly detach? Does this have a mower deck for it?
I met a guy that had an IH tractor with a modification like that. It was pretty cool to see. Probably still in his back yard.
Many were made in michigan made by johns 2000 were produced by his factory i believe i have two one is Johns other cant remember made for orchards ih were easyer to convert then case
I happen to know Steve. He's a good friend of mine.
Growing up we had a Colt lawnmower/tractor hydrostatic drive, from Rockfalls , Illinois
I would love to have one
Allis Chamlers/Simplicity did one of thees also. Guy came in wanting to get tractor parts for one.
Great job in restoring this tractor! I liked everything EXCEPT the insulting shot of him hauling off the GREEN tractor! ha! South Carolina
That's alot of batteries to maintain .
Now that is something I can relate to having 14 full size car batteries and 3 lawn/generator batteries.
The other rare old Case was the stretched one turned into something between a UTV and a garden tractor. I think about 50 of those were made too. Then in the 80’s Case made some 60” pull type wing mowers,,, of which I saw one at the first Garden Tractor Daze in Wisconsin about 8-9 years ago when I brought my 79 448 there #9774008 the 8th 448 made. I sold it about 6 years ago.
i worked at Case in the early 70s. in Wichita, ks
My buddys dad has one kinda like that on his land in prue Oklahoma.... I used to play on it win I was a kid..... it's still rusting away in the woods
What a wast hope it gets saved
I need to find a place to get part for my '65 130. unfortunately I let it fall into a state of disrepair. I'd like to get it going again even if it is unrestored
I had a little sears tractor never saw one before it had wings sort of for the back fenders was going to make a little hot rod out of it but sold it must have been from the early or late 60s
i want one now
I'm living in Canada and I'm still using a 1972 Ariens snowblower. Way better than the cheap thing they built today.
Today things don't last...
that machine fell into the right hands
Gud tractor
At 2:53-56 it looks like it had a boxed frame. Is that the same frame that was used for the later 1972-79 Case 644 FEL (front end loader) Industrial Case tractors? or were all Case Garden tractors using boxed frames and the 644 used a stronger version of this frame?
Was that one a real 76 spirit of America
I could use something like that! Why don’t they make forklifts that size anymore or was it just too niche?
Dollars to donuts it because of skidsteer loaders/compact loaders
True. Still I feel like this would still be handy because of how small it is.
Whe had old alis charmler and it was much larger but was built same way was a farm tractor in reverse basicaly d16 reverse wish we still own it
I would buy one
my boss has a John Deere version of the same thing. its pretty cool
@T3chn0ph0b3 JD is not MTD. Change my mind.
How is the handling different than other tractor based forklifts ? Almost all I'v seen run the tractor backwards and I'v never heard any one with forklift experience say they handle any different than any other conventional forklift.
When we built quality products here not cheap Chinese junk thank you Mr Reagan
Kohlers good but you can't beat them old Briggs and strattons
Jeff Scott never had a Briggs run as smooth as a Kohler
Kohlers American made an family owned Briggs an scrap are hard to get the right for sometimes a half hour on the phone with them
Have you ever seen a casematic 430 59 model?
God damnit, this little Shit is completelly crazy and awsome in the same time....it should be elegale! xD...Shit, now i want one
I’m only 26 and i already have 7 case ingersoll tractors.
👍🙏👏
I have a small collection of old garden
I'm sorry but I'm from the country area, when someone says garden tractor we're thinking of something like farmall 140. You know like a tractor for the garden. I've notice a lot of people be calling lawnmowers tractors. Are you talking about a tractor or lawnmower? I have a yanmar 2200 26 hp diesel I do my gardening with, pulling trees, dragging my dirt road, just a all around garden tractor
Im talking about an actual garden tractor like a 317 John deere or an International Cub Cadet 782 i have a 9n Ford that i do everything else with
@@lukebecker1959 thanks. The video kept saying garden tractors but all I seen was lawnmowers. I just was wondering if that was what you had. Sorry, meant nothing by it.
@@kennethhunt248 thats ok
I have a 442 case that i plow snow with
i have a 442 PK and i love it
@@blawra I haven seen to many of them
There's more to life then materialism.
Oh for Pete sakes.. looks just like the one my uncle has in his barn..
Boy, those tilting pistons are so close to your feet.
Does it also have mower deck
I know where there is another, not as good looking but runs and is still working hard!
So the other 49 are scrapped? I've seen one and I'm gonna say it's not that one. It's not the only one lmao everyone thinks they have the only one
So it drives like a fork lift...
$2500 in 1966 is $20,240 in 2021 dollars, so yea, you can buy a pretty nice used rough terrain forklift for less than that so who would bother. No one.
Just in-Case you need a forklift.
2500 in 2020 is alot of money lol
If you charge to much for your product, no one will buy it and you will go belly up, I agree.
Awesome haul that junk Deere away lol
Another horder
I want to punch myself in the face I found one on Facebook but I didn't buy it
whats the point in collecting when you dont use it
You will figure that out when you become an old man.
It's a hobby like any other. I collect old army bags and don't use half them.
@@nap8187 its a selish hobbie collect all dont use all there maybe someone out there wants one but cant get one
He doesnt have cell phone to ruin him just love for his life and hobbie