Posted by Bill(Wis) on January 06, 2020 at 19:42:05 from (75.97.187.58):
In Reply to: Re: Where did they go? posted by SVcummins on January 06, 2020 at 19:14:43:
Your picture is one of the original Fordsons. Fordsons were quirky, much like their creator. They had some bad habits. One was the infamous back flip which was caused by the design of the rear end which featured a worm gear drive. Front end would come up and worm itself right over onto the unsuspecting farmer. Also sometimes caused by the farmer inserting a fence post or such into the wheel to get unstuck. Henry Ford was concerned about this and came out with a set of fenders that remedied the problem by stopping the tractor after it had reared up about 30 degrees or so. The fenders were a $50 option until they finally became standard but raised the price of the tractor. My uncle got one of the last ones without fenders and boasted about the money he had saved. Another bad habit was Jumping into gear while sitting in neutral with the engine running. Another bad thing was that it was hard to start when hot. Many a farmer came in from the field at noon and left it run while feeding the cows or getting something to eat and then seeing his tractor traveling across his front yard on its own. I forgot to mention, it had no parking brake. The brake was applied with full down clutch which wasn't the case when you shifted to neutral and let the clutch out. One day my uncle had his Fordson idling in the yard while he was working on something and his Fordson jumped into gear and headed straight for the silo. It plowed into the silo, climbed right straight up the side of the silo and then flipped over backward, rupturing the fuel tank and catching on fire in the process. They said that, in spite of it being made almost completely out of steel, it was an almost unrecognizable pile of twisted, burned metal. He had to go into town and buy a new tractor. We still laugh about it to this day. (;>))
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