Every mechanical thing has its little idiosyncrasies and the old Fordson was no exception. Three come quickly to mind that caught my uncle one day. 1. As they advanced in age they could become hard to start when hot. 2. Again, when aged, they tended to jump into gear when left to idle. (Farmer let it sit idling - see 1. above.) Some farmers would bring them in at noon and leave them idle while having lunch only to look out the window and see them going across the front lawn. 3. They tended to flip over backward. Killed many a farmer. Henry Ford became very concerned about the backward flips and had heavy duty fenders installed to stop the tractor from flipping over backward. These became a required $50 option after a certain serial number. Well, my uncle hurried into town and got one of the last ones made without fenders. Boasted about how he'd saved $50. Some years later, he was working in the yard with the old Fordson idling nearby- Remember #1? Tractor jumped into gear,headed straight for the silo and when it hit, because the front wheels hit first, climbed right up the side of the silo, flipped over backward, crashed, caught on fire and, in spite of being made almost completely of solid steel, burned beyond recognition. My uncles next trip to town was to buy a new Allis Chalmers tractor. Pretty funny. We still laugh about it.
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