[AT] now Electric Wheel--Another hijacked thread - Now, Ford Jubilee

kgwaugh0943 at gmail.com kgwaugh0943 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 05:25:05 PDT 2017


Boy, farmer, I could not agree with you more about people talking on and on about things of which they know little or nothing.  Maybe it was just the way I was brought up, but I simply find no shame in not knowing everything, in trying to take care that what I do say is factual, and that there is NO shame in not "knowing it all"!

Ford question:  My grandfather for many years had 3 tractors on his Whitley County, IN farm.  His first, a 37 JD G, a 53 Farmall M, and a Ford---He had the Ford primarily for use in the orchard, but it was used for more general purposes as well.  The specific one I recall _might_ have been a Jubilee.  It had the 'vertical' gearshift---does that point to a specific time frame?

Gene Waugh
Elgin, IL...a looong way from my roots!

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From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Indiana Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 5:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] now Electric Wheel

I like to show things in an educational manner. I have a Ford 9N on my wish list along with a Ford Jubilee. I have a Ferguson TO-20 (in working
clothes) and a couple of Ford 8Ns (neither of them going yet).
I always thought an exhibit of a 9N, an 8N, a TO-20 and a Jubilee would make an ideal way to able to "show" rather than just "tell" people about the chronological order of each tractor arriving on the scene and the story of the differences between them and why.
At shows it seems like everybody has "heard" something but most of the time
it is wrong.   :-)  Since I had been unable to do much for a while I have
just been taking the TO-20 to a couple of nearby shows (well, OK, son Scott has been hauling them for me). I can't begin to tell you how many times I have listened to guys telling their wives and or kids that the TO-20 Ferguson was an 8N Ford or many times a "Fordson"... A lot of guys are really bad about just making up answers to questions they don't know the answers to.  :-)

The Jubilee isn't actually required for that story but I grew up on one and just want one and thought I would list it while I was wishing.  :-)


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On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

> A neat application of an 'electric wheel' at the Gadsden, AL. antique 
> tractor show was a 48 volt electric golf car converted into an 
> electric front wheel assist (FWA) by placing 48 volt electric motors 
> in each front wheel. The exhibitor uses this golf car as a tractor to 
> pull the small tandem axle trailer that permanently hauls his cutaway 
> 1945 2N Ford tractor.
> This tractor-trailer combo is a close fit in an enclosed trailer. I 
> did not notice how he hauls the golf car, but assume it is another 
> enclosed trailer.
> The cutaway includes the four cylinder flathead engine, transmission 
> and differential. He completely disassembled the tractor four times in 
> the process; the fourth time was for color code painting. He goes to 
> all local shows and many schools to help educate students.
> Our 48 volt golf car is powerful enough to pull that exhibit unit most 
> anywhere, so I am inclined to think he was just enjoying being 
> creative with the FWA; nothing wrong with that. It significantly 
> improves traction abilities. Conversion cost $1200. Herb(GA)
>
>
>
> On 10/30/2017 12:57 PM, John Slavin wrote:
> > John:
> >
> > FYI, I think the Electric? you mention is Electric Wheel.  We had 
> > and still have one of those too.  They’re still in business under a 
> > different
> > name: Titan Wheel.  So far as I know, they no longer make wagons, 
> > but do make a lot of steel wheels used in the ag., construction and 
> > forestry businesses.  Here is their web site:  
> > https://www.titan-intl.com/wheels 
> > <https://www.titan-intl.com/wheels>.  Their plant I know the most 
> > about
> is
> > in Quincy, IL and I think that may be the original location for 
> > Electric Wheel. They have been around since well before the turn of 
> > the 20th century. It is interesting to note that the name comes from 
> > the fact that they used electricity to weld wheels together.  See:
> > http://hsqac.org/electric-wheel-company-jack-hilbing/
> > <http://hsqac.org/electric-wheel-company-jack-hilbing/>
> >
> > John S
>
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