Posted by LenNH on October 31, 2008 at 17:08:13 from (24.61.134.129):
In Reply to: F12 or 14 posted by James Williams on October 30, 2008 at 15:52:29:
I'd guess those short brake levers were put there "just in case," but with the original steel wheels there wasn't really any need for brakes. Remember the original Farmall and F-20 that had only one brake lever, and that for parking? They probably figured that the automatic turning brakes would do the job most of the time, and you could reach for the parking brake if you really needed it. You could get rubber tires for tractors easily by about 1936, but it seems manufacturers are slow to make changes, especially those that cost money. I spent years and years and years on F-12 both steel and rubber, and on a Farmall and an F-20, both rubber. Even on rubber, you didn't need a brake handle very often, although on rubber if you don't cut the throttle soon enough, the tractor can roll more than you want. I resorted to an expedient that worked, but which was super-ugly: I put a piece of pipe over the F-12 right-hand brake lever! I never used the hand brakes for steering, because the turning brakes worked very well.
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