First tractor I ever drove was a Fordson. It had the long teardrop fenders, but my dad still warned me about it rearing up.
Couple of things I remember, the worm gear howled like heck, and the tractor ran its best in hot weather when the radiator was boiling. With a non-pressurized cooling system, my dad never bothered to screw the radiator cap down. He did something once to cause the tractor to rear up, and it pitched the hot radiator cap back into his lap.
My dad was also an onnovator. He once put a cross spring onto the steering drag link to cause a slight pull to the left when he was plowing. Just enough to hold the right front wheel against the left side of the furrow so he could let go of the steering wheel and twiddle his thumbs till he got to the other end of the field.
He also designed and made an adjustable wide front end under a Fordson before the manufacturers ever thought of it.
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