Re: Tandem Wheatland Tractors

Posted by john d on January 14, 2004 at 18:04:16 from (152.163.253.66):

In Reply to: Tandem Wheatland Tractors posted by Rauville on January 14, 2004 at 16:12:17:

Back in the late 1950s to early '60s, there were several farmers in central Indiana putting tandem row-crops together. I can remember going to the Indiana State Fair and seeing 4 or 5 each year of various types and setups. A couple of years ago, there were was a tandem set of Allis WD45 units in the antique tractor display at the fair.
My Dad had a friend who did tillage work for several years with two Farmall M tractors in tandem. The front one had live hydraulics and he used a cylinder from that one to operate the clutch on the rear one. About the same time, there were also several farmers in this area who experimented with "furrow-followers" for operating a plow tractor with nobody on board. An arm extended forward of the tractor with a double-disk unit that allowed it to follow the furrow and steer the tractor. A kill-switch was built into the setup that shut off the engine if the front of the guide raised enough to leave the furrow. Controls for the clutch, throttle, and ignition were extended to the back of the plow, allowing the farmer to approach from the rear and stop the tractor. When plowing a large field from the outside to the center, the farmer could be on a second tractor in the same field. This fad only lasted about 5 years or so.

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