Posted by Bill(Wis) on September 12, 2020 at 20:12:27 from (174.221.133.48):
In Reply to: New post Ford sos posted by flying belgian on September 12, 2020 at 16:07:30:
Harold Brock. A legend in tractor design. Look him up online. Interesting reading and there is at least one interview and several of his speeches. Started working beside Henry Ford when in his teens. Made 13 cents an hour. Argument over whether SOS transmission was ready for market (it wasn't) led to him leaving Ford and then John Deere "reached out" to him. The rest is history.
We tried out A Ford 871 in 1959 with it fully weighted front and rear pulling a three bottom mounted plow. It was really a two plow tractor considering our land but it did OK. I practically had to beg my father not to buy it because I suspected the transmission would prove troublesome and was I ever right. So was Harold Brock
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