Posted by The Dukester on February 08, 2013 at 13:00:25 from (204.106.241.43):
In Reply to: Custom tractor posted by R Aiken on February 08, 2013 at 06:39:25:
I had a high school classmate and good friend (class of 1952) that had one of the Ward's Custom tractors on his parent's home farm. Before they got the Custom they had used the little Ward's Twin Row tractors (B.F.Avery type) and I usta to kinda razz him about farming with "pee wee" tractors. So, when they got the Custom my friend asked me to come out to their farm and see the new Custom work. It pulled 2-16's pretty easily and the fluid drive was nice in that you could throttle down and the tractor would stop without using the clutch, then throttle up and go again. It seemed a little slow taking off in road gear but that was the only thing sorta bad about it I noticed. The Chrysler engine was sure smooth and pretty powerful. I was a Farmall guy all the way, but had to admit the Custom wasn't bad at all. A collector in our area now has a Rockol tractor which appears similar to the Ward's Customs. A few years later I had a '49 DeSoto convertible with fluid drive. Usually starting out from a stop putting it in second gear position and then down to high as you speeded up resulted in much better acceleration than just starting out in high gear position. I always depressed the clutch when shifting into gear from neutral but did no clutching after that. The DeSoto was no drag race car by any means, but it was nice to drive in stop and go traffic and would go down the road as fast as any car with a relatively small flat head 6 engine.
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