I grew up on tractors shifting gears on the go, that's how my dad taught me to do it, yes there's a art to shifting without grinding gears, it was harder to do on our WD Allis than it was on our Fords.
All of my tractors but one are 60's to early 70's models, only one has had the trans apart for repair and that was because of a bearing failure.
For those that never shift on the go, when pulling a load up a hill or you hit a soft spot in a field and the engine chokes down, do you stop, shift the a lower gear and than try the take off again, do you slip the clutch taking off in road gear until the tractor gets moving.
If I had slipped the clutch trying to take off in too high of gear when I was young dad would had taken a leather strap to my back side.
Someone explain to me how you take off down a road with a load behind you and use road gear without ever shifting on the go.
I like the old Allis tractors but it's a well known fact that they had weak transmissions.
The one tractor I have with a synchro trans is the hardest one to shift, doesn't grind gears, it just shifts hard and slow, good thing it has dual power for quick shifting when needed.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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