[AT] tractor hauler a pain to install headlights.

[Steve W.]

Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Speaking of tractors.  ?
> When my father bought his new 9N Ford and equipment at the start of 
> WW-II he didn't buy the lighting option. He had a pair of kind of large 
> fog lights and he installed them fender mounted. They were possibly 
> already antiques back then. I do recall that they had flat yellow lenses 
> that were ribbed and chrome housings. I know it had a plow light on the 
> back but I can't make my brain bring up a picture of it. I don't 
> remember a red tail light at all.
> When he bought the new Ferguson TO-20 about 1949 he did buy the lighting 
> option and also again on the Ford Jubilee. I think all of the later 
> tractors came with lights as standard equipment. Neither the John Deere 
> MC crawler nor the 40-C that replaced it had any lights, not sure why... 
> Of course the McCormick 10-20 had no idea what a light was other than 
> maybe a flash light.
> I recall working in the fields early on, mostly in the spring, late at 
> night by moon-light. Plowing was not so bad but sometimes disking or 
> especially drilling it was easy to "lose your place a bit at times. 
> While most of the tractors had lights sometimes they had spells of not 
> working or a generator not charging for a time etc.
> 
> 

The F-20 I have has never seen a light or even provisions for one, I 
guess you could have mounted carbide or kerosene lights on it back then.

The H has lights on it, but I think you would get more light from a 
candle placed 50 feet away...

The 35 deluxe and TO 20 both have lights. They are OK but still not that 
bright.

-- 
Steve W.