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<p class="MsoNormal">Ferguson used the term “draft control” when he applied for the patent. Looks like Case used the term for their Eagle Hitch but did not actually have “draft control”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.harryfergusonlegacy.com/pages/brief-life-summary.php?itemid=25">https://www.harryfergusonlegacy.com/pages/brief-life-summary.php?itemid=25</a> YEAR 1925<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[link]A company called Ferguson-Sherman Incorporated is set up to manufacture ploughs in Evansville, New York State.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The patent known as draft control is applied for on February 12th.[end link] The link may have an error.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looks like a case of Caveat Emptor. The articles mention that a newly acquired Case subsidiary covertly bought a tractor with the Ferguson system to copy.
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<p class="MsoNormal">[Indiana Robinson] This might get long... I enjoyed the link in Jim Peck's post comparing the Farmall H and the Case SC but one comment threw me a little.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">" By 1949, the company had introduced a proprietary draft control hitch (the Eagle Hitch), "<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><snip> Now I have never owned or even driven an SC Case (I do have a VAC Case) but my wife can verify that over the years I have seriously drooled over many "Chicken Roost" SC Case tractors. Unless I have overlooked something truly important
I just don't consider the SC version of the Case Eagle Hitch to be a "Draft Control" hitch... A "draft control hitch" needs to be more than just a lift up and down. It needs to have a draft sensing system... I've never seen that on a Case SC... Have I just
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a link to a Case sales item on PDF. If the link doesn't work let me know and I'll try another route.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="file:///C:/Users/FRANCI~1/AppData/Local/Temp/Case%20SC%20folder.pdf">file:///C:/Users/FRANCI~1/AppData/Local/Temp/Case%20SC%20folder.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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