Posted by NY 986 on November 28, 2017 at 15:03:12 from (184.53.49.177):
In Reply to: Narrow vs wide fronts? posted by Oliver 500 Wa on November 28, 2017 at 10:08:48:
Back in the day a NFE equipped tractor was a way to lower the selling price so a farmer could afford to buy a tractor. A hundred or so dollars today is no big deal but trying to get a farmer to part with an extra 100 dollars for a wide front in 1948 took a lot of convincing. Then as others have stated equipment was designed to take advantage of the NFE in terms of quicker mounting such as with cultivators and corn pickers. In the first few decades of the existence of the small gas powered tractor a low cost tractor with a minimum of features was the key to marketing tractors. As the remaining farmers from a declining number of individual farms grew more affluent they sought more features such as more transmission speeds, live PTO, and hydraulics. Fast forward to the 1970's farmers wanted an increasing number of clutch-free speeds, closed cab with environmental control, and more responsive hydraulics. Along with these desires was the want of an front end that did not run over a hay windrow and fewer traffic lanes in row crops. Mechanical front wheel drive was being increasingly demanded for tractors and the front drive off of a Jeep or other pickup made a sound choice to develop a prototype for a tractor which had a lot of characteristics utilized from a tractor wide front end.
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