Re: 1942 W4, bought new by my dad

Posted by Hugh Mackay on June 14, 2007 at 02:55:56 from (216.208.58.122):

In Reply to: Re: 1942 W4, bought new by my dad posted by Wardner on June 13, 2007 at 21:10:33:

Wardner: Ya got me on that one. Dad and my grand father had bought a Fordson around 37-38. He always said the horses would have had less work without tow starting the Fordson, as the horses would have done the work it did in less time than it took for tow starting.

They wanted something better and the IH dealer had a good supply of W4s. He never said, however what I saw in later years was big volumes of W4s in the area of early 40s vintage and almost all of them had steel and rubber. I know dad used the steel at first, couldn't get rubber during the war. The Hs down there are late 40s-50s vintage. I suspect row crops were in such big demand at points west. I do know that in the late 40s early 50s the local dealer put together a K5 S/A tractor and trailer to haul Cubs, SA and C from Chicago to Nova Scotia. It was the only way he could be sure of getting them. The old guy that drove the truck, told me the first round trip to Chicago took 2 weeks. It was alway the feeling IH sent whatever was in good supply down east.

I think I also said, dad did trade the W4 for an H in 51, improvement big time.

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• Re: 1942 W4, bought new by my dad MJ in the UK 05:07:29 06/14/07 (0)

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