Posted by pat sublett on February 07, 2009 at 17:37:14 from (75.20.239.131):
In Reply to: 8n posted by ken in texas on February 07, 2009 at 14:44:58:
There was no tractors with live PTO of that vintage. I was raised on a 2N. They were not very powerful but would outperform a lot of tractors with more power because of the Ferguson 3 Point lift system. I was raised on a peanut farm when peanuts were thrashed with a stationery thrasher. We used sleds made kind of like a plank gate about 10 ft. wide and 20 ft. long with no skids under them, worked better than wagons in that deep sand. People just chain the front of the sled up to the drawbar to keep it from burying in the sand. We just used the side links on the three point with the bar between them on the 2N, no top-link attached. Just raise the lift a little to pick up the front of the sled. There was a Ford dealer in the area that had a J3 Cub and would fly a part out to you if you broke down, fly low and drop it. The thrasher broke down, he flew a part out but, couldn't resist the temptation to land with the crowd and all at the thrasher. One of the guys said I like your airplane but I don't think much of your tractors. The dealer said I can take that little Ford over there, pointing to our 2N and out pull any thing in the field. Them was fighting words. He whispered something to my dad, went over and got on our little 2N. They unhooked the sled, backed it up to Farmall M with a fixed drawbar, of course. Guy said chain em up close. Nobody familiar with the 3 point hitch unless they had a Ford in those days. The dealer reached down and tapped the lift lever a little, took enough weight off of that M and drug it all over the field. Don't think many people knew what happened that day including the guy that owned the M. He was one more mad sucker.
Never saw a tractor that you could tie something around the axle and pull, that it would'nt rare up.
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