A fellow I knew got out of ag college and started a wholesale fruit/truck operation on his father's farm, then bought more land and really went to town. He had almost all IHC tractors of the A,B,C,H,M,SH,SM era, kept in immaculate like-new condition by a mechanic who came in the winter and went over them. Many of the tractors were kept with mounted implements (cultivator, planter, etc.), so he could just tell his men to go get one of the "specialist" tractors and do a job. He probably had less invested in all of his (about 40) tractors than it would have cost to buy two new tractors. Poor guy died very suddenly at 47. Wife couldn't carry on, so sold everything. At the sale, his tractors bought very high prices from collectors because they all looked and ran like new. His idea seemed to make sense to me, but then maybe it was because I love driving those "old" things which still dont seem that old to me. I grew up on Regulars, F-20s, 10-20s and F-12s, so the next generation still seems "new" to me. When I was about 10, my father would go to the local IH dealer and I'd see a shiny new H or M in the showroom and think I'd gone straight to Paradise. I still remember driving a neighbor's new H about 1943, when I was maybe 12 or 13. After tractors that ran at 1000, 1200, 1400 rpm, the H sounded like it was going to take off when opened up to 1650, and it took me a while to get up the courage to open it up. Maybe it was because the dealer said things like, "Them new tractors run too dang fast; they ain't gonna last." Well, they did. Interesting sidelight: my little Ford 1100 will run up to almost 3000 rpm (yes!) and it shows no sign of falling apart.
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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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