There is a Moline I'd like to have

[Alleyyooper]

:hide: the wife wouldn't like it but I would love to have a big yellow moline GVI. Or is it a GV1? Don't know when I began to lust after one of them ROF.

[Greg]

Good lookin' tractor! It's a GVI.

Uncle Greg

[bear]

that first pic looks like a propane gvi either one with fwa would be nice to have not many built compared to the 2wd models

[Argee]

Can't blame you...that is a nice looking tractor!!:fing02:

[Alleyyooper]

:hide: My lust is for a two wheel drive model. :fing20: I sure wouldn't refuse to take a frre one if it were a 4 wheeler.

[Argee]

I am also looking for a two wheel drive tractor in the 60 - 80 HP range...I would never refuse any gift either...ROF

[bear]

one like this al

[Argee]

There ya go!!

[Alleyyooper]

Yes that is it Bear. I'm a sucker for those crown fenders too.

Did a bit of research, could not find any thing on the gasser but the LPG weighed 8155#, had five foward speeds. The 425.5 CID propane engine had a tested PTO horse power rating of 78.44 @ 1200RPM, 9.17 horse power hours per gallon of fuel.

The diesel weighed 8335# had a 425.5 Cid engine also. Yeild of 78.49 PTO horse power @ 1500RPM, at 14.48 horse power hours per gallon.

[bontai Joe]

Pretty tractor, even if it isn't green

[Alleyyooper]

:omg: There is a saying that some companys painted what they called a :Tractor2: tractor green and yellow so it could be hid in the grass when a real tractor was around ROF ROF

[bear]

that gvi in the picture in the picture still runs great gets around 60-70 hrs year spreading fertilizer and running a grain auger it is cheap to run just sips away at fuel compared to some

[Argee]

Bear...How wide is that drop spreader??

[bontai Joe]

Yeah, that is some drop spreader! I was overjoyed to have a 72" one when doing lawn maintenance. Yours looks to be 50 feet.

[bear]

36 feet holds 2 1/2 ton of fertilizer per fill

[mgood]

Alleyyooper: be careful how involved You get with them Yaller things; if Ya get used to the purr of one of them; and wind up with one, they are of a definate, habit forming.. If I could, I'd have a few of them (few hundred that is) Pop used to kid around about the GVI; He called it Popeye's Minnie; in His joking way He wondered where Olive Oyls Moline was..

[Alleyyooper]

ROF Don't know just how one of those yaller thingies would effect me. :omg: Just wanting one old red and yaller thing has led to 20 of them here and the desire spread to my daddy who willed his Pony to my youngest sister since she liked it so well.
I like my sixs best, 1938 101r with the Chy. and my 1947 44-6 with the Cont. L head 6.

[Maybar]

Yes that is it Bear. I'm a sucker for those crown fenders too.

Did a bit of research, could not find any thing on the gasser but the LPG weighed 8155#, had five foward speeds. The 425.5 CID propane engine had a tested PTO horse power rating of 78.44 @ 1200RPM, 9.17 horse power hours per gallon of fuel.

The diesel weighed 8335# had a 425.5 Cid engine also. Yeild of 78.49 PTO horse power @ 1500RPM, at 14.48 horse power hours per gallon.
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Other than running a D JD on drip gasoline @ .06 cents/gallon the propane engine was one of the cheepest operating engines ever made according to the above figures.
Why did propane fall by the wayside. Forget safety. Thousands of farm kids filled propane tractors with no or very little instruction and with very few accidents.

[bear]

price of propane was likely the biggest issue i remember as a kid 1/3 of the pickups parked at the coffee shop in town were lpg then it seemed all of them dissapeared around the same time. don't remeber seeing a lot of tractors seemed propane had its glory years then somewhat dissapeared. how many gallons/hr would they use were they fairly economical. i've got a couple lpg's but don't use them in the farming operation to compare them against diesel gallons/hr

[Alleyyooper]

Bear found one for you. In NE price is $5650

http://images.irondealer.com/dealers/402/65/23318/machines/293722-1.jpg

http://images.irondealer.com/dealers/402/65/23318/machines/293722-2.jpg

I have a Massey Harris 44 propane. Fellow I bought it from said it was cheaper in 1958 to run it than his 44 diesel. He kept the diesel because he said it was a pain in the rear when the hired man ran it out of fuel in some back field. He could just take a five gallon can to put in the diesel. The propane he had a tank mounted on a trailer tward the end.

[mgood]

Are there any figures on how many cabbed GVI Tractors were made; seems like moline used outside vendors for their cabs?

[bear]

i haven't seen any production lists with a breakdown of cab or no cab tractors