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Tractor Girl Reaches South Pole

Read where she started across Antarctica on 22 Nov, arrived at South Pole on Dec 9th. Was 4 wheel drive with diff lock. About 75 hp new tractor. She got stuck several times in deep snow but used a winch mounted on tractor to pull out of deep snow. She says the engine racked up 584 hrs and was never shut down after they started the journey. (There was a relief driver) She carried fuel on a trailer but had a refuel point set up at the halfway point of the trip. Quite the deal when dealing with -25 temperatures all the time.
 
Must be North Pole. It would be a pretty good feat to drive a tractor to the South Pole from Europe. "You can't get there from here."

OK. So she started out from Antarctica not Europe.
 
south pole. trip was a recreation sort of of nnalert's trip in late 1950s or early 1960s to the pole with a tractor-- Ferguson TO30(?) with a cab and tranny over/under drive option, heat enclosure panels. MF will get some advertising out of it- I read they were sort of sponsoring the attempt- maybe sell some snowplows with the MF 35 or 65 new models- maybe 2165? RN
 
She supposed to start back in the same tracks she made going to the Pole today. There is land up there but it is under a mile or so of ice.
 
South Pole !
She went to the south pole. I talked to here a few weeks ago in the Netherlands at a farm show.
She made a trip from the Netherlands to South Africa driving an old Deutz tractor a few years ago.
MF sponsered the last part of the trip to the south pole.
 

So Russia has a base called Novo in the Antarctica! Now I get it, I think. The article I read said she started from Russia's Novo base and went across 1500 miles of wasteland to the pole. Duh! Jim
 
They did not show pictures of the tractor being winched out. Probably not good advertising. There were 2 four wheel drive pick up service vehicles following her, maybe they used them. You can't call AAA up there.
 
Tractor runs on jet fuel. There is a big fuel tank behind cab on the 3 point. Standard tank holds fuel fore extra cab heater.
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(quoted from post at 18:47:19 12/11/14) south pole. trip was a recreation sort of of nnalert's trip in late 1950s or early 1960s to the pole with a tractor-- Ferguson TO30(?) with a cab and tranny over/under drive option, heat enclosure panels. MF will get some advertising out of it- I read they were sort of sponsoring the attempt- maybe sell some snowplows with the MF 35 or 65 new models- maybe 2165? RN
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Those were Ferguson TEA-20's they drove. The top of the cabs were open so what little came heat off the engine all went straight out the top of the tractor. There is one Ferguson TEA-20 still down there in a crevice somewhere. nnalert reached the south pole on 1-4-58.
 

The reporter noted that the Massey was red in colour.
It would have to be the South Pole to be that warm and have daylight at this time of year.
 
(quoted from post at 14:41:52 12/11/14) What did she hook the winch on? Just a grappling hook? Some kind of ice-anchors?

Just wondering,
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ooked to the pole with ball on it...........see picture in post :wink:
 
Thank you for details, I wasn't exactly sure if I remembered much of exact time and model--but I was fairly close on both. RN
 
They even have daylight all night. Or is it then called nightlight?
They drove in 3200 meters altitude and -56 C.
 
They probably had a "Pull-Pal" or something similar along. Basically it is a blade that burrows itself into the ground or snow as you pull against it. They are a common off-roader's tool for areas with few natural anchors.
 
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