Kind of a lonely post--no replies to date, so I thought I'd give you a little encouragement. I drove one of these bucking broncos for probably a dozen years, back in the 40s and early 50s, and I had a couple about 20 years ago that I was going to restore, but never did, thanks to too many commitments elsewhere at the time. An unbreakble machine. On 36" rubber, much faster than on steel. Second gear near 4 mph, in which it would pull 2-14" plows through absolutely any conditions. The big "but" is "but oh, what a ride." The seat sticking out the back goes down when the front wheels go up, and the seat goes up when the front wheels go down. The steering is definitely not "irreversible," as IHC literature used to say about the H and M steering gear. A rut could wrench the wheel out of your hand if you weren't holding on tight. The iron steering wheel acted like a flywheel, which was great when YOU wanted to spin it, but not so great if you were daydreaming and had your arm sitting lazily through one of the spokes when the tractor hit a rut. Noisy, noisy, noisy, but a nice sound with a good muffler. No comfortable place to put your feet. Great torque, which is what allowed it to pull so hard. In my opinion, it could outpull an H, which was supposed to replace it. When the H came out, I used to hear farmers wondering if the H was a match for a rubber-tired F-20, and the usual opinion was, "no." Mine, too, and I've spent a lot of time on both.
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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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