I remember when the Ford Ns came out. We looked at them and laughed and made jokes about them being a "good garden tractor" many, many years before there was such a thing as a garden tractor. One farmer did buy one with a two bottom plow and he had to trade the two bottom plow for a one bottom. There is no way that little thing was ever going to pull two bottoms in red clay alfalfa sod. No way. We didn't even have John Deere Bs in our neighborhood. John Deere As, Gs, Farmall Hs and Ms, Allis Chalmers WCs and an occasional U. Case DCs, LAs, etc. That's all you would see. AC was the most innovative, I think. A manure spreader that unloads off the front? A bad joke at best. Mount a side delivery rake to the front of a tractor? (that one always left the driver in the dust) Round baler? That you had to stop each time a bale came out. (Which prompted the development of the WD, which was what the WC should have been in the first place) We didn't see any Ford tractors around until the 800 series came out. Then a few showed up. We tried an 871 and it did a credible job pulling 3-14s but that was with max tire fluid and wheel weights on all fours. Glad we didn't buy one though, with the aptly named "SOS" transmission. At that same time Farmall had brought out their 460s and 560s, AC the D17 and John Deere would not be far behind with the 3010s and 4010s. Ford 6000s were a disaster. Although the Super Major and 5000 that followed were some of the best tractors ever made. One of my favorites from that era was the Oliver Super 88.
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Today's Featured Article - Seeing an Old Friend - by Joe Evans. Dad had a concrete contracting business starting in 1960. One of his first pieces of equipment was a Ferguson TO-35 with a Davis loader. Dad replaced the TO-35 with a MF 202 Workbull, essentially an industrialized Ferguson 35 I am told. Dad bought the 202 new in 1962, and I recall quite clearly going to the dealer with him to sign for it.
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