When I worked for a JD dealer in 1979 we sold a nice used self propelled mower conditioner to one of our very good customers.It was wide,and it had always been moved by removing the head and hauling the parts separately.The customer called,his old machine had quit in the middle of mowing and he needed his new one right now.Our truck was gone,the boss came out of the office with a dealer plate and said to me,you're going for a ride.It was the first time I had ever been on the machine,and I had to run it 24 miles up a busy highway.It was hydrostatic and had a steering wheel.You pushed the whole column/pedestal ahead for forward and pulled it back for reverse.The scarey part was trying to not overcorrect when cars or trucks would pass me,with inches to spare.I still can't remember if it was a New Idea,a New Holland,or a Hesston.We sold all three back then so it could have been any one of them.If you wiggled the steering wheel just a fraction of an inch the wrong way on the pavement the thing would jump up and spin around.On grass it was another story,very smooth and predictable.
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