Not sure how many tractors we owned since my dad bought the first one (an Avery)in 1951, but it's probably 30 or more. Only bad one was a 190XT; I was still working for my dad and he thought we needed another 4020-size tractor. It was practically new and we had a good relationship with the A-C dealer. (There were Ford, JD, Case, A-C and Farmall dealers in the county at the time; only JD is left). At the time, we were using twin 110 gallon saddle tanks (on the tractors) for chemicals and the ones for the JDs wouldn't fit, so I spent a couple of days making racks, plumbing a new pto pump, etc. We were used to tractors having 2 oil systems......one for engine and the other for everything else. I disremember exactly, but the the XT had 4 or 5 oil compartments and it was impossible to keep the oils separated. When a seal or gasket would fail, oil would foam out all over. In the 2 or 3 months we had the thing, it spent more time in the shop than in the field; we carried it to the dealer for the last time and he refunded all the purchase money; went and bought another 4020....
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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