1959 JD 430w

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in crossposting this. I hadn't thought of putting up for sale here as this is 'crawler land'. Silly me. We all also like tractors, right?

Well, I have one tractor too many. I never use this any more. I originally got this to part out as I was doing up a Phase-III 420w at the time and needed a whole final drive.

When I got it home, ugly as it is, I found it ran too danged good to part out. So, I paid for a final at a scrap yard (and really paid for it, too. Half as much as I paid for the 430w!) and kept this to run a mower.

Not that I used it for mowing all that much. I tended to prefer my newer Deere 4500, and now the 5103-II (aka 5045D in the new numbering scheme), so this sits too much.

So, I put it up on eBay. No bidders, though. I think I have it listed cheap enough going by other auctions and 'for sales' on the web.

Anyone here interested?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :MESELX:IT

later!

Stan

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

There was once a time when I was all hot for a 420w/430w, and now I'm going to sell it.

We've always had the 420c, and one day I got this idea that I wanted a matching wheel tractor: Phase-III, 5-speed trans, live PTO, etc. So, I found myself a '58 420w that needed some work. A lot of work, actually.

It needed a full-on restoration. Engine, trans, hydraulics, the works. I was stuck on needing the LH final assembly. You see, the 420w had been rolled at some point and the axle was bent and the casting cracked and repaired (badly).

So, I went looking for what I needed and found the 430w. Well, as we know they're the same machines under the tin. I brought it home and found it was a better candidate for restoration than the 420w had been!

The plan was to get what I needed off the 430w. I'd keep the complete engine, as that would work on both the 420c and the 420w. I'd keep the trans as well. I even thought I'd put the 430w rockshaft onto the 420c (not right for a crawler, I know, but it could be useful even so). I'd then sell the rest of the bits I wasn't keeping for spare parts.

Then, I just could not do it. I sat in the shop for an hour thinking it over and could not bring myself to kill off the 430w.

I then got what I needed for the 420w and figured I'd restore the 430w one day.

Then, we bought this little farm. The 420w was not quite enough tractor for my needs. I especially needed a loader. So, I took someone's kind offer for the 420w and sent it on it's way and bought a JD 4500 with a loader.

That worked until we bought the neighboring hayfield. The 4500 didn't have quite enough guts to run the baler and be happy about it. So, I traded that in on a new JD 5103.

But, the 430w remains. It gets used once in a while to run the 8 foot mowing deck if I need to mow and I have the 5103 rigged for something else. That's not worth keeping it, though.

Anyway, as I sat here eating lunch and thinking about it all, I figured I'd let y'all in on it.

It's odd how this hobby goes.

later!

Stan

[shinnery]

I believe it is just too far away from west Texas, specially when I have nearly a dozen Minnie-Molines that would probably get really jealous. They have tolerated the 440IC and 440ICDs since there weere so few MM crawlers built but I am not sure about a wheel tractor.
Bryce

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Sold!