Re: What old tractor model is most common in your area ???

Posted by Gene Davis on January 09, 2003 at 20:13:03 from (66.82.9.38):

In Reply to: What old tractor model is most common in your area ??? posted by Alberta Mike on January 09, 2003 at 18:09:45:

My father was part of the original John Deere dealership in Tennille, Georgia from '39 till'62, and the JOHN Deere "B" had to be the all time most popular, and the "A" was only slightly behind it, the IH dealer was next door and the sales of IH "M"'s was probably the next best, the "H"'s never took hold in the area. When they came out with the "C"'s they didn't sell too good, but the "Super C" sold well. We had a few A/C's and 2or 3 MM's, and Ford was a heavy contender for the small farm trade, everybody around here at the time wanted a tricycle type rpllamatic nnfe to use for row cropping, and some used single wheel fronts before power steering was common, cause the one wheekl would follow the furrow so much easier. Most folks here didn't want to have so much space at the end of the row between the row and the fence to turn a wfe around, when they could come to the end of the row and lock down one brake pedal and spin the steering wheel and go down the next row in 1/2 the time and effort to turn the wide axles, power steering helped change all that though.In those years most every farmer burned distillate fuel which was usually about 8-10 cents a gallon after they cranked and warmed up on gasoline using hand operated shutters, and looking at the combination of temp gauge and exhaust smoke color, if the fuel burner got too cool the smoke got greyish- white and it lost power too. We never sold many straight gas burners, used to love to listen to them run, the fuel tractors with low compression engines sounded like they were slobbering, but the gasoline engine tractors had a clear ringing sound to them and were more powerful, but try to convince a farmer that when fuel cost 10 cents and gasoline cost 30 cents.

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