Posted by qwk69buick on May 09, 2015 at 01:02:42 from (75.142.68.14):
This message is a reply to an archived post by Fritz Maurer on June 20, 2011 at 18:35:39. The original subject was "Why did the FastHitch fail?".
Like all of us my opinion, but Ferguson was the market for almost 20 years, with David Brown, then Ford. Being first has it's perks, as many of you have pointed out it wasn't perfect, but it did work, yes you did have to get off the tractor, but other than your top link you didn't have to adjust anything else. I think part of the reason the other manufacturers developed their own hitches was the fact Harry Ferguson was a very litigious man, end of the handshake agreement. And they didn't want to have to deal with him because everything had to be his way even if there was a better way. And as many have pointed out everyone made their own, if the manmanufacturers could have gotten out of their own way and made a standard hitch that didn't belong to Harry and used all their engineering talents combined that would more than likely be only system in use today. But they didn't and it really made little sense to tie a farmer down to one manufacturers tractor and implements for life. A mower is a mower, a plow is a plow, it is much more attractive to the average farmer to be able to use all his implements on all his tractors no matter the color. I grew up with Massey Ferguson, like most they happened to be our local dealer. We had a 25, 50, 65, 135, 255, 275, and a 9n don't know where we got it, but wouldn't you know they all hooked up to the same implements. Just one person's take, but any medium or large tractor today all use a Ferguson style 3pt, so everyone else as a member put so eloquently put it was playing second fiddle in a one man band.
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