R was rated 48 PTO HP, probably the biggest. Dad had one for about 4 months, end of December 1963 to end of April 1964. Was a big clumsy awkward tractor about the same HP as our Super M-TA Farmall but slower. Township Road Commissioner really really wanted it and Dad let him have it. Township used it to pull road drag and a PTO driven rototiller to chew up scarafied roads. They kept it 3 years and traded it for a 770 Oliver diesel. They knocked the PTO out of it three times, once a year! We never ever hooked anything to the PTO, just ran it to run the hydraulics. They are a pain to start. Pony motor is too small, only tractor with 2 cylinder pony, every other pony start tractor got the V-4. Dad put Char-Lynn power assisted steering on ours, still was clumsy and awkward. I only remember Dad running it once, maybe twice. Supposedly it was "My Tractor". I REALLY hated that 11 mph road gear. It was amazing how much more work the SM-TA could do in a day than the R. It seemed to have a gearbox FULL of too fast or too slow gears. Next smallest would be the G. Then think the D. Later D's may make more HP than a G, early tractors were distillate or kerosene fueled, lower HP. Next after G or D is the A, then B, then H, then M, then L. Think that's all of them. Not a huge fan of those old 2-bangers. Some of the worst days of my life were spent listening to those things bang, clang, and hammer along hour after hour. My ears ring 24-7-365 now and I owe that ALL to Mother Deere. I'd get off an M, SM-TA, 450 and no ringing ears. Get off the BTO's 60 or A JD and my ears would ring at least as long as I ran them. Never had that problem with his 4020's, & 4320, 4230, and 2470 Case.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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