Growing up in the 50's, we had a model L John Deere that was ragged, hand cranked and with a manual lift for implements for our garden. Neighborhood kid had a sleek shiny, right new cub with starter, lights, hydraulics and the whole 9 yards for their garden. He poked fun of my ragged L all the time. I got tired of hearing it and challenged him to a pull off by hooking a chain between the draw bars. He sneered and said to go get your pile of junk. I went and got it and we backed up together and hooked them with a chain about 10 ft long. Someone hollered go and we went at it. He started a little before I did and momentarily drug me backwards. When I let the clutch out on the L and the 2 cylinder Hercules caught it's breath, the oversized 10-24 tires spun about 1 round and then caught a good bite on the pavement and I drug him about 100 ft backwards before I stopped and unhooked the chain and took my junky L home and that was the last time I heard any smart remarks about my L.
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Today's Featured Article - Self-Starting Tractor - McCormick 10-20 - by Francis J. Robinson. I remember it very clearly even though it was almost 50 years ago and I was only about seven years old. My Dad had purchased a new Ford-Ferguson tractor and basic set of implements when he started farming just about the beginning of W.W.II. It was considered a pretty nice outfit for their 70 acre central Indiana grain and livestock farm. Dad spent several years during the war testing aircraft engines at Allison Engineering in Indianapolis working seven days a week on a twelve hour night sh
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