There is a Moline I'd like to have

Good lookin' tractor! It's a GVI.

Uncle Greg

one like this al

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.

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..

ROF Don't know just how one of those yaller thingies would effect me. mg: 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.

Alleyyooper said:

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.

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

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





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.