Re: Re: Re: Why didn't many old tractors have front bumpers or grille guards ???

Posted by casered on October 22, 2002 at 08:23:32 from (209.173.121.82):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Why didn't many old tractors have front bumpers or grille guards ??? posted by IanC on October 21, 2002 at 18:11:36:

The comment of todays drivers makes me think of riding with a friend last week in the rain. We were on the interstate going about 70 which was too fast for the conditions. This wasnt the scariest thing though. When we exited the interstate we had to cross over a bridge to merge onto another highway, the bridge is highly curved with at least 7 steel expansion joints in the roadway, the surface is concrete and the bridge is only about 300 ft long. Everytime we hit one of the expansion joints I could feel the vehicle slide towards the edge of the road until it hit the pavement again, when it abruptly stopped sliding. I thought for sure we were going to roll over each time. Somehow though we made it, but I'm not sure how. Oh the vehicle was a nissan pathfinder with oversized tires making it even less stable than the stock tires would have. I dont know that I will ride with them again. On the subject of the bumpers if you think of the old fords and fergusons they only had the grill and tinwork out in front, where most row crop tractors had some sort of casting out in front to gelp protect them, usually in the way of a front frame for the post and pedestal. Lets not also forget that alot of bumpers also had hitches on them for pushing and pulling. I had an uncle that had one on his TO30 that without it and a push-pull it would have been impossible to get wagons in the barn to unload them.

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