Calif Bill wrote:
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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.


Pansy. My grandpa had a Cat. Very early model. I think it was a D4 40 hp
gas. They were invented about 50 miles from where I now live.

Oh, and Lombard invented the Caterpillar in Maine, not CA.:
An effective caterpillar track was invented and implemented by Alvin
Lombard, for the Lombard steam log hauler. He was granted a patent in
1901. He built the first steam-powered log hauler at the Waterville
Iron Works in Waterville, Maine the same year. In all, eighty-three
Lombard steam log haulers are known to have been built up to 1917 when
production switched entirely to internal combustion engine powered
machines ending with a Fairbanks diesel powered unit in 1934.
Undoubtedly Lombard was the first commercial manufacturer of the
tractor crawler. At least one of Lombard's steam-powered machines
apparently remains in working order. Also, a gasoline powered Lombard
hauler is on display at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.

In addition, there may have been up to twice as many Phoenix
"Centipeed" versions of the steam log hauler built under license from
Lombard, with vertical instead of horizontal cylinders. In 1903, the
founder of Holt Manufacturing, Benjamin Holt, paid Lombard $60,000 for
the right to produce vehicles under his patent. There seems to have
been an agreement made after Lombard travelled out to California, but
some discrepancy exists as to how this matter was resolved when
previous track patents were studied. Popularly, everyone claimed to
have been inspired by the "dog tread mill" once used on farms to power
the butter churn, etc. to "invent" the crawler on their own, and the
more recent the history, the earlier this date of "invention" seems to
get.