Re: Fard vs Farmall in the 40's

Posted by Hugh MacKay on October 30, 2003 at 17:14:03 from (64.228.12.182):

In Reply to: Fard vs Farmall in the 40's posted by Steve W on October 28, 2003 at 14:26:14:

Steve: Interesting little item you have here. I know a lot of farmer's preferences depended on the type of work being done. I know a lot of farm families who bought the Ford N series tractors. They were bought purely on price. Many of the families that bought had just struggled through the dirty 30s. Up to this time they had neither a car or a tractor. I can well remember many couples coming to town on the 8N, papa driving and mama and children in trailer. Mom and pop alone often just had a platform on 3 point. That tractor, the Ford N series probably found a wider variety of uses than any other tractor built.

On the N series tractors you take away the 3 point and what good were they. A Farmall A or SA would handle a wagon loaded with anything up hill or down better than any of the N series. In our neighbor hood we used to haul firewood off the hills behind the farms. We shared a common road with a neighbor who had an 8N Many times I have seen the Farmall A with wagon and 1 cord or the Farmall H with 3 cords. Three times in my life I remember our neighbor jack knifing his 8N with 1/2 cord of wood on same hill. The hitch pivot on the 8N just too far from tractor axle and not enough weight on rear axle. It is a wonder he wasn't killed. I have seen that 8N turn cross ways in front of wagon and wagon just shoved it down hill cross ways. The 8N did get along quite well with a 2 wheel trailer that put some weight on drawbar, but you could only take that one so far as well.

They all had their place in history, and all of them were best in some areas. I guess its a good thing tractors were a bit like people, good variety. In all my years around farm equipment, (I am 61) I have never seen what I call a perfect tractor and by the same sign, I've never seen a tractor from the mainline companies of the 50s that didn't have at least one feature that I liked.

I guess one could say John Deere has come as close to the perfect tractor as anyone. That is the beauty of having no better or perfect ideas of your own. You just use every body else's best ideas. Really that is technically what the new Deere is, but then so are a lot of the other brands. You said it all EVOLUTION.

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