1960's era MFWDs were crude, clunky, and expensive. They seriously hurt the maneuverability of the tractor. On top of that, not much was known about the effects of soil compaction, so if a farmer couldn't get enough traction, they simply added more weight.
Plus, tractors were not that powerful, only around 120HP at most, and it was still possible to get the power to the ground in a 2WD configuration without a ridiculous amount of weight.
The only reason to splurge for a MFWD was if you had to slog through mud or deep snow.
Attitudes went largely unchanged as the tractors got more powerful. When you get into the 66 series, you can't get the power to the ground through just the rear wheels anymore, but the MFWD technology really hasn't changed much.
MFWD really didn't become practical until the Magnums, and by then we knew how much more efficient farming was when you don't compact the soil so badly, and all of the weight of the tractor is being used for traction.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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