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Harold H

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How many mounted implements/equipment have you seen that require the tractor to be reversed for normal operation? The first three that I think of are: 1. cotton pickers (not cotton strippers), 2. various sugar cane equipment, and 3. fork lifts. I once saw a 4. power line right of way cutter that was a reversed Farmall 400 or 450 with a very heavy duty mounted brush cutter running forward (kind of like a overgrown version of todays zero turn mowers). In the Delta we re-reversed cotton picker tractors which were on bull gears and made them into 5. high clear sprayer tractors. On another forum, "Antique Farming", a user posted a picture of a home made or proto type 6. four row corn picker mounted on a reversed tractor. I have also seen 7. bean toppers mounted on reversed tractors although most bean toppers were mounted out front on normal direction tractors.

What reverse operation applications do you know of in addition to these seven?

Harold H
 
Hay sweeps. Used to do it alot in the Sandhills of Nebraska to sweep up loose hay for stacking. My aunt still has two Farmall Super Cs that have been reversed. With all that weight over the back axles, they could push a lot of hay. In the early 60s, my grandfather even had a Super A reversed, and it could push a lot of hay. Not much loose hay being put up in the Sandhills any more
 
"Love" bean cutter/windrowers were run with the tractor in reverse. Hydro 656"s were the popular option for this as one could sit on the fender and steer without modifying the clutch linkage.

I"ve also seen pictures of a Hart-Carter cucumber harvester mounted on
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Seems like early purpose-built front end loaders and snow blowers might have been reversed tractors. Don't know that to be a fact. Did Hough ever build such a machine?

City of Lowell, MA had a snow elevator for scooping up downtown snow banks and conveying the snow into dump trucks. This was back in the '50s and can't remember the details.

There were also the Lull high-lift forklifts. Don't know if IH ever sold them skid units. Weren't they mostly J. I. Case?

Trenchers also come to mind. There was one in Dong Ha, Viet Nam but I was so busy filling sandbags from the discharge chute I can't remember how it was built.
 
So far, after only about 2 1/2 hours, we have at least twelve uses: 1 cotton pickers, 2 sugar cane equipment, 3 fork lifts, 4 brush cutters, 5 spray tractors, 6 corn pickers, 7 bean toppers, 8 hay sweeps, 9 bean cutter/windrowers, 10 cucumber harvesters, 11 front (rear) end loaders, 12 snow blowers, 13 trenchers.


Harold H
 
The Hume or Hart Carter Co. had pea cutter/swathers that went on reversed tractors. I personally have ran them on "slant dash" JD'A s' Ferguson TO s & a farmall 400D. The little ferguson was a 'challenge'. They fit Minn-Molines also. This was in the early 60 s
Not sure when these were first made , but at least in the 50 s. .
 
This H was at an auction sale last spring, ran nice and brought around 800 bucks. Only machines i have seen reversed around here were for loader work.
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