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Silver Kingby ~yankeedog

Digital Art / Vector / Vehicles

I had never heard of Silver King Tractors, even though I grew up in a former farming and mining community north of Pittsburgh, called Harmarville, named for a Revolutionary War soldier, Joseph Harmar, lieutenant-colonel, commandant, First U. S. Regiment. We weren't farmers, but there was a farm behind my house, so it wasn't uncommon to see tractors and farm equipment. Because of that I've always had a fascination with farm machinery. One time I even helped the farmer put together a gang mower he was having trouble assembling. It was kind of cool for a city kid living in suburbia and still being close to a farm with cows and horses..., but growing up in Harmar, the kids from the other towns always called us "Harmar Farmers", they were all soon to find out that we were actually "Harmar Villains", but that's another story.

Anyway, I was doing research on Plymouth Locomotives and Silver King Tractors of Plymouth, Ohio came up in the search. Apparently Silver King was a really fine tractor in their time, the Cadillac of tractors maybe, they sure are cool looking. So this is dedicated to all the farmer and those that work the land.

Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Apple G4 Power Mac, OS 9.2

~Starfire612 Aug 24, 2009

this is really good! ya knok my grandpa owns a lot of silver kings and a plymoth tractor!

~yankeedog Aug 25, 2009

Thanks! Do you have any photos?
-YD

~Starfire612 Aug 25, 2009

i dont have any on me right now but i'll get some soon lol

~yankeedog Aug 25, 2009

Cool! I'd like to see them.
-YD

~factorone33 Sep 9, 2008 Professional Photographer

And what looks like the inspiration behind some of the concepts of the Ford 9N tractors from the 40s and 50s.

~yankeedog Sep 9, 2008

I wouldn't be surprised.

-YD

~Mopar Dec 5, 2007

I really like this drawing, the style seems like an advertisement out of that time period!

I don't think I've seen one with a whitewall front, but that is definitely a good touch, and I like that.

I'm a tractor nut, BTW.

The Silver Kings were built in Plymouth, Ohio which is about 30 miles or so away from me. They have a pretty big show every year.

The SKs weren't Caddys...they were relatively simple...but they were known for their amazing "road gears"...something like 40MPH I think. Thats scary on a tractor especially since most SKs were three wheelers. Most MODERN tractors don't go that fast!

Good work!

~yankeedog Dec 7, 2007

Thanks! Yes, that the style I was trying to get of a period style ad.

Yes, the whitewalls were some more of my artistic license.

Cool! I would like to do some more tractor illustrations, if you have any good reference, I'd really appreciate it. Also, when I was a kid, my dad had a tree business and we used to work for a guy who had a black tractor, I can't remember too much about it, but it was old and in mint condition. What company painted their tractors black?

That how I found out about Silver Kings, I was doing a search for Plymouth Locomotives and I found a site about Silver Kings because they were built in Plymouth, Ohio.

Maybe they weren't the Caddy of tractors, but they were a quality machines. I saw ads for those 3 wheelers, that seems like a farm accident waiting to happen. Anybody who has ever had to follow a farm tractor on a narrow country would surely appreciate a tractor that could at least do the speed limit, that's pretty cool!

Thanks for all the great info!

Please get back with me about that black tractor if you have any idea about what make it was.
-YD

~Mopar Dec 7, 2007

The SKs were good quality (most farm equipment was back then!) but I was thinking "Caddy" as meaning high tech features.

The three wheeled SKs were common, a good majority of the tractors of the day were narrow front tractors (meaning a three wheeler, or two front wheels VERY close together (here's a pic example: [link]
(Not an artistic attempt, just a boring pic of mine!)

About the black tractor. Um, well, that is WAY too vague for me to even guess. The only tractors that I can think were regularly painted black were old steam engines. But if you can remember ANY details at all, I could try to figure out something? Rubber tires? Were the wheels a different color? Hand start? Type of fuel? What was it used for?

I'm a farm hick interested in antique tractors; I've got a few of my own, so I can try to help with anything.

~yankeedog Dec 8, 2007

Cool! From what I remember, it was painted black overall and had white lettering and rubber tires, the front tires were far apart like on the SK illustration. The wheels were either silver or white and the back wheels were dished in. They used the tractor for pulling a gang mower. I'm not sure what type of fuel it used, but I suspect it used gasoline. I grew up in a farming and minning community north of Pittsburgh in the Allegheny Valley. There was a farm behind where we lived. They had horses and beef cattle.
-YD

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