Re: History

Posted by Bill(Wis) on September 17, 2022 at 07:49:32 from (174.192.78.151):

In Reply to: History posted by Majorman on September 17, 2022 at 01:13:25:

Over here, fenders were installed on all of them in 1924. Mostly to prevent them from doing their infamous backflips. Prior to that they were a $50 option. My uncle bought a new one in 1924 and managed to get one of the last without fenders thus saving him $50. He boasted about this. Fordsons, as they aged, became somewhat hard to start when hot. So it was fairly common to let them idle when performing some short type of work away from the tractor. On occasion, they would jump into gear while idling and take off on their own. One day he had the Fordson idling in the yard while he was working on something else and it jumped into gear and headed straight for the silo. It hit the silo head on, wheels first and didn't stop there. It climbed right up the silo, flipped over backward and caught on fire. They said it burned so completely as to be barely recognizable which, being made almost completely of steel, was almost unbelievable. He then had to use the $50 he'd saved toward the purchase of another tractor. (;>))

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