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Posted by kyhayman on October 23, 2006 at 11:01:34 from (205.188.117.14):
In Reply to: Fisrt Tractor posted by Snowballs on October 23, 2006 at 10:47:03:
I think that subject is very much open to debate. It wasnt a case of there being any one tractor that came along and everyone said, ok, this is it, we dont need the horses any more. The Rumley's, Titans, Waterloo's, and a host of other mobile and stationary engines each began to replace certain things that the horse could do. The 9n and 2n Fords had a lot going for them and there could be a strong argument made that they were the tractor along with the later 8n that really put the horse 'out to pasture'. Even as late as the 40's lots of horses used for lots of jobs. My great uncles were good farmers, and affluent for the times. They didnt buy a tractor until the late 40's though they used stationary engines, trucks, and even had gasoline clothes irons, and a kerosene refridgerator. It was timing and price that replaced the horse, not any one machine. Factories and tooling built during WWII for military production enabled lots of cheap tractors JD, Ford, Case all of them to be built. People had money, and there was a large demand for food all over the world.
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