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Alfred C. Webber, Jr.
02-06-2003 20:31:14
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Re: Re: Garden All Tractor Company in reply to H. Morgan, 10-14-2000 17:25:34
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I spent my entire youth driving and mowing with our Garden All (bought about 1950-1951)(I was born December 23, 1941, so I was nine or ten) here in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Just remember that when you and your third-grade girlfriend are seated on that flat snap-down steel seat, that baby free-wheels going downhill and the brake on the trailer only drags on that rubber tire...and may not do what you need to have done! When the sucker backfires and blows a spark plug into the sky, duck! It goes right over your head if you are just four feet tall. Have your dad buy the sicklebar attachment to clear the dense grass... as a weld will break in twenty minutes and you can take the rest of the day off. We built a hay wagon that fit into the trailer and allowed a huge amount of grass to be hauled at one time. We hauled stone, cement, topsoil, ashes, trash, fertilizer, peat moss, baby pine trees, basically everything in that trailer. I drove it on the windy two-lane public road for a four mile round-trip to get chicken food for my three pet leghorns. Today I'd be crushed by a BMW or SUV. I loved that tractor and was hauling classmates at our high school picnic in 1960, when it was ten years old. We put it in our old stone garage (originally a smoke house) at the bottom of the hill here, in the far corner. It is still there although the roof fell in and it is surrounded with debris. I read of the restorations of old classic tractors in my Farm & Ranch Magazine... and I wish really badly that I could see it restored (in any one's hands). It really was a huge part of my early life in the country.
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