[AT] Ford 1520

Wed Sep 11 19:06:39 PDT 2019

More tractor names.
Spencer:
The John Deere MC crawler had a lot of limitations but it being a crawler
made up for most of them. Reduced ground travel speeds from lower gearing
made up some for the tiny engine.  The worst of the limitations were
designed out of the 40-C. The dozer blade was extremely useful and
surprisingly effective especially on a farm that had been rather poorly
farmed and was badly overgrown. It also helped that they were new
tractors.  :-)  You could pull out another stuck tractor from about
anything with about any implement hitched to it. We got stuck a lot in
those early years before we got a lot of new tile drainage installed over a
number of years.
On a side note: if we had a stuck tractor and a heavy implement we never
hooked it up to the front of the stuck tractor. We ran a cable back under
the tractor and hooked to the implement hitch to avoid pulling too hard
against the tractor sections where they were bolted together.

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:32 PM Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com> wrote:

> Then there was the narrow front/single wheel John Deere MT.   I bought it
> as a “hasn’t run in 20 years”  project and resurrected it from the dead.
> Ran good but it’s general design, single front wheel, and lack of power was
> such that  it was pretty useless.   I  referred to it alternately as “Poz”
> (P.O.S.) or “Zombie” depending on how ineffectual it was for any given task
> that day.
>
> I should have left it for dead.....
>
> PS. When driving the 430 I get flashbacks of the MT. I’m pretty sure
> owning and using the MT gave me PTSD.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 11, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Tractor Names
>
> I'm sure I likely posted this here before, too many groups to keep track
> of.
> My father bought a new 9N that was still on the dealer's floor in early
> 1942. It was the first tractor anyone in the family ever owned. Until then
> it had always been horses. It would have stayed horses but my paternal
> grandfather never owned a car let alone a tractor. My father on the other
> hand truly disliked horses and had left the farm rather than use them. He
> always said the he spent so much time on a cultivator behind a horse
> growing up that when someone said the word horse that view was what always
> popped into his head...  :-)
> Here I refer to that first tractor as a 9N but we "never" called it that.
> It was always called "the Ford Ferguson". To start with it was called "the
> tractor" because he only had the one.  :-)  Then after he added a McCormick
> 10-20 just after the war it was referred to as "the 10-20" and the 9N was
> "the Ford Ferguson". That still applied after he added the Ferguson TO-20
> about 1949. It was never the TO-20, it was always "The Ferguson". When we
> moved to this farm in 1951 the 10-20 was traded for a car since it had
> largely fallen out of regular use, replaced by the much faster and more
> useful Ferguson.
> The John Deere MC crawler and the John Deere 40 Crawler that replaced the
> MC were both just always called "the crawler".
> The "Ford Ferguson" was traded for a new Ford Jubilee (NAA) which became
> "the Ford". We never called it a Jubilee.
> The new International 300 Utility that was added a couple of years later
> became simply "the 300".
> In 1961 or 62 "the Ford" was traded for a new Massey Ferguson High Arch 65
> Diesel. Since it was our only  diesel it became "the diesel". That was with
> a purpose, it was to help keep us from accidentally using the wrong fuel.
> About 1971 the 65 was traded for a new MF High Arch 165 diesel which was
> also "the diesel".
> What follows these is a string of various brands and models of used
> tractors but I need to stop here and get something done so I don't get
> fired.  :-)
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:30 AM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Ford of UK was selling their tractors as Fordsons until the 1960s.
>> Interesting point. When Harry sold 9Ns into the UK it likely was through
>> his own distribution network. Harry's design group were making the drawings
>> for the TE20 while they were still selling 9Ns. Harry was not caught flat
>> footed. Ford had only themselves to blame for the creation of Ferguson
>> tractors.
>>
>> [Dean VP Snohomish, WA 98290] James, That is why I suggested there may be
>> a European Bias. The article was discussing the handshake agreement between
>> Henry and Harry. Those tractors made and sold in the US were called Fords.
>> The tractors sold in Europe probably were called Fergusons.
>>
>> [James Peck] Those experts were right. The 9Ns were manufactured by Ford
>> but sold by Ferguson. They had a Ferguson logo on them as well. The modern
>> term might be “joint venture”.
>>
>> If we can call a tractor designed and built by Shibaura a Ford or a New
>> Holland, then we can call a tractor partially designed and sold by Ferguson
>> a Ferguson.
>>
>> [deanvp at att.net] <snip> Even the “experts” make errors such as the
>> tractors sold in the US by Ford with the Ferguson System starting in 1939
>> were called “Fergusons”.   <snip>
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