[AT] Fordson tractor show 1922

[Paul Waugh]

How did you steer it??  Steering wheel??, brakes??

Paul - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Strobel" <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Fordson tractor show 1922


> Thanks Ken and especially Guy for starting this in the first place. 
> Here's a photo of the rearend and hit next or previous for the tag and the 
> right front view.  I believe it came out of Yellowstone:
>
> http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2061284830039077051FlNhvv
>
> Looks like winter has hit.....
>
> RickinMt.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken Knierim" <ken.knierim at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Fordson tractor show 1922
>
>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Richard Strobel
>> <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com> wrote:
>> > Ken, I'm glad you got to see the Butte Mining Museum!!  Sad to say that 
>> > a
>> > lot of good ole iron is sitting out in the open and has to bear the 
>> > Montana
>> > weather.
>> >
>> > RickinMt.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> Lots of iron there for sure. Apparently my great-grandfather worked up
>> to being a shop superintendent at one of the mines in Butte and my
>> grandmother grew up there. We were looking into the history from a
>> bunch of angles when we were there. My daughter enjoyed it too.
>>
>> We also got to see them putting in the wind generators at a tremendous
>> rate up there. And of course we had to check out various iron piles.
>> It was a good vacation this year.
>>
>> They indicated the Fordson Museum (wherever it is back east) doesn't
>> have one of those pontoon types. They only made a small number (5 or
>> so from what the guide knew) for snow and mud. As Gene noted, the main
>> reason they didn't catch on is they were too tough to control. Might
>> work on flat surfaces, maybe.
>>
>> Ken in AZ
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