Well I have to jump in here on the "M not useful on any size farm today" I have an M and it is a valuable piece of the puzzle on my farm. It does all my hay raking, most of my cultivating and plants all my hay, small grains, and pinto bean crops. It cuts my beans for harvest, pulls my ditches for irrigation, and runs my 125 gallon 3point sprayer. Where are you going to find a tractor that can do this much work and still leave a light foot print in the fields. I have put a custom 3 point on it and that has made it a very valuable tractor. Unless you have a corporate size farm the family farmer today cannot cost out all the new equipment and still hope to make a living. I just rediscovered how good and dependable the old tractors and equipment are and figured out how to work smarter with them. I have a JD4430 and a JX95 and just got a right priced JD4630. Those tractors are for the bigger stuff and for sure have their place but don't count out the old iron. (I laugh as I write that as the John Deere's are 1970's and the JX is new but only 95 horses but they are dependable) When I get done planting with my old 1950's 6 row bean planter and that M I haven't compacted the ground and it still does a great job. Might take a little longer but I'm not a corporate farm, I'm out there to enjoy life farming not isolate myself from it. And what do I have to cost out per acre.... a 1000 dollar tractor and a 200 dollar planter that where paid for years ago. I know all the new guys will want to talk precision planting and that you just can't get the yields with the old stuff and it's too slow but I don't have to since my machine costs aren't in the 100's of thousands of dollars and I'm not trying to farm 3 thousand acres to pay for them. Plus the GMO crops aren't giving the advantages promised for the cost paid in the long run. Just my 10 cents worth
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Today's Featured Article - The Cletrac General GG and the BF Avery A - A Bit of History - by Mike Ballash. This article is a summary of what I have gathered up from various sources on the Gletrac General GG and the B. F. Avery model A tractors. I am quite sure that most of it is accurate. The General GG was made by the Cleveland Tractor Company (Cletrac) of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally the company was called the Cleveland Motor Plow Company which began in 1912, then the Cleveland Tractor Company (1917) and finally Cletrac.
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