Dad had one of the really GOOD Automatic brand tractor radios, big square box, 6 or 12 volt positive or negative ground. We farmed about 20 miles from the Mississippi River about 3 miles south of Interstate 80, Quad-City radio stations were easy to tune in, Moline, Rock Island, Davenport & Bettendorf. And I could get WLS from Chicago but when Dad used the big tractor that radio always went on after I changed the station I would always hear about it. Dad got me a smaller TENNA radio for my 14th B-day, had the same 6&12 volt and +/- ground switches but it really struggled pulling in Quad-City stations. Get too close to a power line and the signal disappeared. Really hard to beat those Automatic radios, they were the ones you could hear a mile away good enough to tell what song was playing but you couldn't hear the tractor it was on. That Automatic was on a '47 M, the '51 M, '54 SM-TA, 450, and 4010. The radio would go on less than a minute after the tractor started. The neighbor I worked for never had a radio on ANY tractors till he bought a used 4230. Even the 4320 he ordered with a ROPS cab, heater & AC didn't have a radio. Made for some long days of fieldwork. I still have the TENNA radio, but it has SONY guts AM/FM and cassette but I don't have anymore cassettes. I Don't really have any jobs that take long enough to need a radio on a tractor, except my one Cub Cadet, has a Pioneer AM/FM cassette with headphones, radio is under the seat, head phone cord comes up behind the seat, I've actually used it a LOT!
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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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