Posted by Leroy on January 24, 2010 at 16:22:07 from (209.143.52.234):
In Reply to: Why No Fenders posted by FWB in SK on January 24, 2010 at 11:14:48:
The first Fordsons were built without fenders and when Henry found out the safty factor without them he put them on all of his tractors. The acidents that did happen when the driver was killed on a Farmall or Deere were not publisized and except a few of the clossest no one new that was the cause of depth that you know know. Years ago neighbor WC Allis with fenders was plowing, furrow wheel hit a rock, bounced him off the seat, was laying across the turning wheel till he could pull himself back up and stop the tractor. Told us at one time but as for everybody else they never knew of the incident, if he would not have had the fenders and been killed would never have been mentioned that he could have lived. Most were extra and people then like the young think nothing can happen to them with there speeding and reculass operation of the automobile. And most of the cultivators and loaders could have with some thinking been used with fenders. But it comes down to thinking nothing could possibly could happen to them, the same reason arms were taken off in snapping or husking rolls.
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