Posted by LenNH on February 20, 2011 at 12:42:29 from (24.128.163.35):
In Reply to: Identify this old tractor posted by Dan in North Houston on February 17, 2011 at 05:07:48:
See the tin can on the exhaust pipe? Those flapping lids came out quite a while ago, but maybe not back when the A was around. Farmers who didn't have a lot of money probably wouldn't spring for that contraption, anyway. All you had to do was reach up and put on a tin can, which would fly away nicely when you started the motor.
The pneumatic lift on the Farmall A did not have a very good reputation, as I remember. I think the exhaust fumes corroded the cylinder. It was also reputed to be slow. With the one-row equipment that came with the A, a hand-lift probably wasn't all that difficult to manage. Time saved? not much. We had a hydraulic lift on our F-12 for the cultivators. I would guess it would save about 30 seconds at the end of the row. It DID reduce the effort a bit.
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