The 6E skids measure 48 inches long by 5 inches high by 3 -1/2 inches wide.

The handle and rear struts were 5/16-inch diameter.

The small sheet metal cart, after its introduction (likely late 1923 or early 1924), is the correct cart for the 3E as well as the 1.5E.

A typical tag might read “Manufactured By Root & VanDervoort For John Deere Plow Company.” From about 1902 to 1917, the branch houses sold Root & VanDervoort engines. Prior to 1900, the John Deere branch houses sold New Way and Stover engines.

Further, the E, H and K serial numbers intermingled from 1921 to 1926. Serial numbers were issued sequentially, a 3E might follow a 6EK.The H and K were produced until mid-1926, overlapping the John Deere E. Waterloo/John Deere introduced the open crankcase Model H (gasoline) and Model K (kerosene) mid-1919.It’s not Home Depot John Deere Green nor Hunter Green. The proper paint for the Model E at the John Deere dealership is Classic Green paint, rattle can part No. John Deere changed the green paint color around 1960.March 14, 1918, primarily to get the Waterloo Boy tractor. John Deere purchased Waterloo Gasoline Traction Co.The John Deere fiscal year began November 1 and is not always reflected in serial numbers.The inventory dictated when the first or last engine would be impacted. The decision numbers and dates reflect only when the decision was made. Figure 5 is a Northern 3EP with its still distinctive enclosed rocker arm and valves.įigure 5: A 3EP Northern with distinctive enclosed rocker arm and valves. They were then refitted with the standard mixer, muffler and pulley and resold from Minneapolis. With its distinctive tall muffler, Figure 4 is a 3EP sometimes called an EP Southern.Īlthough John Deere did not identify these as variations, several EPs were shipped back to the factory or Minneapolis and stripped of their oil bath air cleaner, tall muffler and flanged pulley. Jim White, again in the archives, retrieved much of the EP information that appears as “Fun Facts” in the Gas Engine Magazine August/September 2018 issue. A detailed examination of the EP engine can be found in Richard Dechant’s article “John Deere Model EP Engine” in the Gas Engine Magazine February/March 2010 issue. The 3EP protected, with its oil bath air cleaner, enclosed rocker arm and valves, enclosed push rod, tall BR tractor muffler, Wico high-tension magneto and flanged pulley came in 1937. Much of that information appears in “John Deere EK” in the Gas Engine Magazine June/July 2018 issue. Jim White, a well-known John Deere collector and restorer, also gained access to the archives researching the EKs. Figure 3 is a 3EK with its characteristic brass mixer. Just two months later, in June 1926, came the kerosene throttle-governed engines the 1.5, 3, 6EK. The battery engines were followed in April 1926 with the 6hp 6E, finishing out the base Model E line.

Figure 3: A 3EK shipped to Juan Borrera in Laredo, Texas, on March 28, 1942.

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