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350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone)

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Paul

04-08-2003 08:14:03

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Just got a Farmall 350 high clear tractor with a Trac-Paver asphalt paver on it. The serial # reads Modified 350HC on the top and 754P PP-501 on the bottom. My question is seeing that there were only 151 350 High Clear tractors built, is this one of them or did IH have a different set of numbers produced when modified tractor were included? It seems to me that 151 would be too low of a production number if the "ag" 350 High Clear and the modified 350 High Clear tractors were added together. Any thoughts are appreciated.

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Hugh MacKay

04-08-2003 14:10:06

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Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Paul, 04-08-2003 08:14:03

Am I right in assuming what you guys are talking about may infact not be hi-clear models but in fact a tractor without wheel or frontend, mounted as a power source on a piece of equipment. I have seen such an ashphalt spreader in my lifetime.

I also remember potato farmers on Prince Edward Island mounting a Farmall on top of a suposedly self propelled potato harvester. They prefered the big hydros. They removed rear wheels and replaced with sprockets to chain drive the harvester wheels below. The wide front was removed, front of unit was bolted down and steering of tractor was coupled to harvester. The harvester was designed hook to tractor pto. The few units I saw would have sat much higher than a hi clear tractor. These guys were using Hydro 70 and 100 Farmalls.

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Bob M - w/photo

04-08-2003 15:51:43

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Re: Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Hugh MacKay, 04-08-2003 14:10:06

Hugh - Here's a typical Trak paver setup. This one is built on a 400 with what appears to be standard hi-clear rear drop axles, a custom extra wide front axle and special wheels/tires all around. Extra live hydraulic capacity was provided by a pump belt-driven from an auxiliary sheave bolted to the front of the crank pulley.

Cool machine! ...Bob

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Bob M

04-08-2003 08:50:09

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Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Paul, 04-08-2003 08:14:03

I remember seeing new 350 (also 450 later Farmall models) sitting outside the Trac plant in Nunda NY in the mid/late 50's. They'd arrive without tires/wheels - always be a half dozen or so parked in the lot. Wish I'd paid closer attention back then!

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Paul

04-09-2003 07:23:45

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Re: Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Bob M, 04-08-2003 08:50:09

Bob, are they still in business? If not, when did they go out? Paul.

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Bob M

04-09-2003 08:51:23

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Re: Re: Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Paul, 04-09-2003 07:23:45

Paul - Trak (or Trac?) is long gone. They just sorta disappeared sometime in the late 60's or early 70's. I presume Trak could not compete with larger outfits like Barber-Green, I-R, Blaw-Knox, etc.

The former Trak plant in Nunda is now home to the "Once Again Nut Butter Cooperative", makers of old style peanut, cashew, almond, etc butters. (The odors issuing from the plant today are MUCH more pleasant than when they built paving equipment there!)

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Joan

06-13-2005 11:43:44

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Re: Re: Re: Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fa in reply to Bob M, 04-09-2003 08:51:23

Formation of the Trac-Machinery Corp. in Nunda was announced in the headlines of the NUNDA NEWS dated May 3, 1956. Officers were Ivan A.Towne, John Pendergast, Delos F. Paine, and Harold R. Piper. The paver prototype was built at the Piper & Paine machine shop (formerly IH tractor sales, and later manufacturer of Fork-Lifts, a business started in Nunda in 1944). Trac-Machinery was formed and continued in the Piper & Paine location, and the two later merged into Trac-Machinery Corp. In 1968, following the death of one of the partners, an agreement was reached with E.D. Etnyre of Oregon, Illinois, whereby Etnyre became the parent company. Manufacture, sales and service of asphalt pavers, contour pavers, and compactors continued in the Nunda NY branch via a network of nation-wide dealers. In mid-1981, the operation eventually was moved from Nunda, NY, to the E.D. Etnyre & Company at their Illinois location. An auction of the surplus machinery and tools was held at the Nunda plant. The building now is owned by a company which makes peanut butter, nuts, etc., named Once Again Nut Butter. If one is looking for operator or parts manuals for pavers and other road equipment the Etnyre Company should be contacted.

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Paul

04-10-2003 15:50:18

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Re: Re: Re: Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Bob M, 04-09-2003 08:51:23

Anybody know where I could find a operators manual for one? I imagine they would be hard to come by.

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Guy Fay

04-08-2003 08:38:12

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Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Paul, 04-08-2003 08:14:03

It was a different serial number series, and technically, your tractor isn't even counted in the numbers produced to my knowledge. If you've got the paver, keep it- pretty rare to find the complete unit with those things. The PP-501 refers to the specifications that IH built that tractor too- PP-501 would be the first specification assigned to that particular company.

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Paul

04-09-2003 07:19:21

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Re: Re: 350 high clear paver (Help, Guy Fay or anyone) in reply to Guy Fay, 04-08-2003 08:38:12

Thanks, Guy and everyone else.

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