For the mower, we shortened the tongue of a horse drawn mower. In fact, when I was a kid, we still used a lot of horse drawn machines that were ground driven by themselves. We simply shortened the tongue to pull behind a tractor.
Before remote hydraulics, some machinery still required someone to ride on it. One instance was corn planters. One person would drive the tractor and another would ride the planter to raise and lower it while turning around on the end of the field.
In the case of the grain binder I mentioned before, someone had to ride the binder. The bundles of grain were collected in a "bundle carrier" and every five or six bundles the bundle carrier was tripped by a foot pedal to drop the bundles. Each round the bundle carrier was tripped in the same spot to form windrows across the field.
Before my sister and I were big enough to ride the binder, my father contrived a way so he could ride the binder and steer the Fordson tractor from the seat on the binder. It worked with a system of ropes and pulleys. He also had a way to operate the clutch on the tractor from the binder. One day one of the steering ropes broke and he started going around in circles. He pulled the rope for the clutch on the tractor and it broke, also. All he could do was jump off the binder, run and catch up with the tractor, and jump on the tractor. OSHA people would have had a lot of fits in those days.
I have no idea what ever became of that Fordson. I still had the fenders until a couple of years ago I sold them to a cousin of mine who collects antique tractors. He doesn't have a Fordson, but he wanted the fenders in case he ever got one.
I still have a Fordson toolbox in excellent condition. To the best of my recollection, I don't have any pictures that survived from those days. I do recall the correct color for Fordsons was battleship gray with red wheels.
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