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An interesting film of Ford tractors worldwide from the 60s, amazing how times change too at 28:00 minutes into the film they show a tractor towing a wagon with a child riding on the fender! Even looks like there is a factory made grab handle loop there just for that purpose! Imagine nowadays no manufacturer would ever show such a thing.
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(quoted from post at 16:13:55 04/12/16) An interesting film of Ford tractors worldwide from the 60s, amazing how times change too at 28:00 minutes into the film they show a tractor towing a wagon with a child riding on the fender! Even looks like there is a factory made grab handle loop there just for that purpose! Imagine nowadays no manufacturer would ever show such a thing.
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Nope they wouldn't. Saw a lot of tractors in Germany in the 70's with wide fenders and the grab handles on em like that.

Rick
 
It was probably a really good feature in
it's day as I'm sure many children rode
on tractors in much less safe positions.
Nowadays many large cab tractors
actually have A "training seat" along
side the operators seat which is a much
safer option indeed
 
Those were the days. Ride in the back of a pickup, or a bike with no helmet. Even hitchhike. How did we ever survive? One of my favorite things it giving tractor rides to kids but never on the road or with any implement.
 
I have seen them called that as well, I know the brochure for one tractor tho refered to it as a training seat
 
Very cool video - thanks for sending that link!

I'm just left with one question: What makes that plow roll over? It looks like the operator trips some sort of a lever and that it's spring loaded, but it can't be.
 
I don't know, my dad and I were trying to figure that out too, we thought maybe hydraulic but really can't tell
 
They used to be called buddy seats, but now they're called instructional or training seats. I'm sure lawyers had something to do with that change.
 
The seats were a common thing in Germany, all makes of tractor have them some on each mudguard.The tractors are used as family transport in some areas and the seat is a "must have"

The plough turnover mechanism, the headstock that the plough attaches to the tractor with allows the plough to turn on bearings on a shaft and is held in position with a pin attached to the handle. When the plough drops into the ground a latch moves around the shaft at the front of the plough and drops into a socket.This remains loose until the plough is lifted when it becomes pre-loaded by the weight of the plough. When the handle is pulled, this releases the plough and the pre load on the latch flings the plough over.

I will try and get some pictures in the next few days, I have just bought a plough with that mechanism.
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I spent a good portion of my childhood riding around on the fender of my grandpas Ford 5000, and lived to tell about it! :shock:
 
In the old days when I was a kid,

At lunch time we unhooked the mules, jumped up on their back and rode to the house, all straps, chains etc lapped over their back,

Any dog, snake, whatever, some old car backfire and those crazy mules could go wild,

Don't remember anyone telling me how dangerous it was, I did not care anyway I was tired of walking in that plowed ground,

Later when I got to ride on a tractor fender I though I was in hog heaven,

Kids of tomorrow will not even be allowed to go out in the sun,
Wonder what the next couple of generations will look like,
Help us,
 
Great video Mark.
Thanks for posting it.
Fun to see those tractors when they were new.
As for the wine, beer and kids,
That's Europe in the 60s don't you know.
They hadn't been sissified like we are today.
Oh and it was terribly sexist too.
All those lovely wives bringing their husbands their lunches. If someone made a video like that today it would show a few pretty women doing all the work on/with the tractor and some effeminate guy bringing her lunch :)
 
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