Back in the late 1980's I took a friend in his early 90's to a tractor show near here. There was an International tractor there like the one pictured above with slanted hood. I helped him to climb up on it so I could take his picture. He told me a story about how he had bought one like it when it was new, along with a threshing machine. He bought it in Syacuse, and drove it home to South Otselic NY where he started his threshing business. My father used to work for him building Chenango Camp Trailers. He showed me pictures of a style of lug he had invented and patented for steel wheel tractors that he called "The Tractoe Lug. It was pivoted in the middle where it fastened to the wheel so it put 4 points on the ground. He said Henry Ford told him he could have made him a rich man if he had invented it 5 years earlier, as it was, rubber tires for tractors came out at about that time.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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