Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 5 Dec 2006 04:59:25 -0800, "basskisser" wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 4 Dec 2006 13:46:49 -0800, "basskisser" wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:41:30 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Wish this beauty were mine:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...00/tractor.jpg

Interesting - a 9N with Jubilee sheet metal and a wide front.

They made Jubilee's with a wide front, just like a 4n

Yes they did - never said they didn't.

Matter of fact, I've never seen a Jubilee with a narrow (one row) front.

No, but there are examples of narrow row Fords all over the place.

A Jubilee? Do a google search in images, to start. I've never, ever
seen a Jubilee with a one row front end. Not saying there weren't any,
but I've been around many, many old tractors in my life, and I've never
seen one.

Hmmmm - disconnect in terms. My bad.

I'm not talking about wide front like Internationals which made it an
option - crow row or wide front. Fords and Ferguson's made a "narrow"
front which placed the front tires closer together, but it wasn't a
crop row. And by narrow, I mean that the tires were set closer to the
frame than the standard tractors.

Orchards used to use them a lot as they could turn on a dime. There
is a fellow over in East Putnam that has one with the Offenhauser race
engine after market "option". I got on it one time and spun the rear
tires - in fifth gear. :)

There are some other kind of interesting tractors around here. One of
my good friends, Harold Foskett, has a International F1 with a Model T
engine in it. He also has my old Super MTA-D and the MTA that I
restored over three years. He lusts after my C model, but I ain't
letting him have it. :)

I ought to go down there and take some pictures of his collection.

Got ya, now! My tractor experience is from western NY, potato farms,
onion farms, beans, freakin' MILES of hay, and orchards, apple and
cherry. My uncle had a small size farm, and when growing up, I couldn't
wait until I got to drive that 4N! I'd ride on the fender, my older
brothers and cousins getting to drive it first. Then one day my uncle
said "pull the tractor around to the garage"! Then he taught me how to
plow (one furrow!), disc, etc. After a couple of years I didn't want
much to do with that tractor anymore! His father had a Minny Moline
that was older than hell, a step up from a horse! Had a hand clutch
that was either on or off!