Henry Ford tried to enter the new market for farm tractors in the best way he was good at...low price to the farmer, like the Model T. $500 for a new tractor when a new Waterloo Boy was reportedly $1200. I don't know what a Titan or a later 10-20 McCormick cost. My grandfather had two Fordsons when he farmed the "big farm" near Harmony, MN. They were hard to operate, hard to start. They were on the leading edge of design for the time, with the bulk of the tractor made of large iron castings, not just frames with components mounted in a row. But, Henry used big ball bearings in the low revolutions axles and due to metallurgy or design, they often broke, breaking the casting and to repair, one had to replace the whole rear assembly. The castings effectively sealed out dirt and the gears operated inside out of the dirt. Earlier tractors evolving from steam engine designs had crude gears driving the drive wheels directly, working in the dirt.
Even though the tractor was the cheapest and most available, it wasn't durable compared to the International, Case, John Deere, Hart-Parr (later Oliver). Grandfather sold both of his Fordsons after his wife died in a stupid farm fire and went back to farming with horses on a smaller farm. Leonard
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Today's Featured Article - Recollections of a John Deere GP - by Charlie Cook. I grew up on my dad's 280 acre general farm in Western Michigan. Dad's only tractor when I was very young was the old GP. My first recollection of this tractor was when dad allowed my brother and myself to ride on the tractor with him driving. One of us would sit on the left fender (away from the clutch) and other would sit on the gas tank and hold onto the crankcase breather pipe.
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