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Re: OT: Little Genius Plow Question
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on August 10, 2006 at 18:29:56 from (209.226.106.83):
In Reply to: Re: OT: Little Genius Plow Question posted by PurdueAg on August 10, 2006 at 16:06:13:
Tony: It could be a Canadian made plow built at Hamilton Ontario. If that is the case, it will not be a Little Genius, but rather a No. 8 Tractor Plow, quite similar to the No. 8 Little Genius, but there are differences, and paint is not the difference. The Canton Il built Little Genius has diagnol cross members between the beams while the Hamilton On built Tractor Plow has perpendicular cross members between the beams. Those cross members are each two overlaping steel bars that make the plow adjustable for width of cut. The No. 8 Tractor Plow also has different levers. The levers are hinged in middle with 3 notches at that point, making the lever reachable if plowing much deeper or in the case of switching from a Farmall to a W series tractor. The lever could quickly be changed to suit the situation. The levers also have a reduction gear in the actual plow depth settings. There is no reference on plow, in manuals or parts books to the No. 8 Tractor Plow ever being called Little Genius. We do know the Hamilton built No. 8 was sold across Canada, in New England, all of Europe and Austrailia. One thing these book writers never mention, is 50 years ago Hamilton Works, was the 2nd largest IH plant world wide in dollar value of product turned out. They only built two crawler tractors, no wheel tractors. It was primarily implements, thus a lot of those implements must have been shipped state side. You think about it tractors coming out of 2 US plants and 3 European plants would run up dollar value quickly compared to implements in those days.
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