I agree, its physics and there were lots of fordsons in "new" users hands as opposed to the eary 20 ton steam tractors that didnt have the power to weight ratio to flip. Again the law of physics dictated this.
The later success of ford was the furgeson 3 point that did in fact pull from below and slightly in front of the rear axle, so that the load actually pulled the tractor down and not up and over... This made a lightweight tractor that did twice the work as it predicessors so that now all the hp could be used.
Any time you pulled a stump with a chain wrapped around the axle of most any tractor, if you had enough power, you flipped it over. end of story, end of the driver.
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