I too was raised on narrow fronts and we also had wide fronts. I prefer the narrow front, but they are not being sold now because they are less stable. This is a fact. I be an Ag-engineer and the tipping radius for a tricycle is shorter making it more likely to tip. IH quit making the B's back in the 40's because of tipping problems. We have been talking about the relative safety of the two front end types and the difference it makes in operation and comfort. Unless you are willing to suspend reason you must accept the fact that the narrow front requires a greater degree of care in operation to remain safe, that is to ramain amoung the living. All equipment requires skill and care in operation. One of my high school classmates almost cut off his foot within the last few months operating a push lawn mower. He had been doing it since he was a kid and it happened when he was almost 60. You are correct however to say that it falls to the operator to be safe. Yes it took a good deal of skill to operate the older tractors, and a lot more energy to work hand lifts, but do not doubt that the modern operator could run those units if he had to. Our dads were highly skilled with mules and horses. I doubt many of us have skills in that area but we could do it if we had to (if we could come up with the energy)!! Just think, when we got off the row when cultivating, we plowed up two or four rows. These modern guys (if they were to actually cultivate) would plow up 12---16 or even more rows. I can still hear my dad yelling at me to "quit plowing up my corn"!! And tobacco, forget it we simply did not even consider getting off the row there, hence the popularity of the one row cultivision A series. These modern operators just need dad's yelling and they would be as skilled as any. As far as busted knuckles and broken hands, it was the wide Fords that were dangerous. Hit a stump, fence post, or furrow just wrong with a Ford and the wheel could become a weapon (My uncle broke his hand that way). I never saw a narrow front do that.
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