Doug: Speaking of hooking tractors drawbar to drawbar, around 1960, my dad bought a lot of New Holland equipment, dealers wife was his neice. He also carried David brown tractors in those days. One day he landed at the farm with a David Brown 990, 16.9x30 tires and no weight or chloride. Dad baled hay with it and since the diesel was new to us he loved it. My brothers and I were afraid he was going to trade our old Cockshutt off for the David Brown.
While dad was away my brothers hooked the Farmall 130 with wheel weights and chloride tail to tail with the DB 990. On hard gravel road the 130 pulled the DB backwards. We knew one secret, dad only wanted tractors that had good drawbar pull for their size. That evening the DB dealer showed up, he, dad and I on the step. My brothers got the 130 and DB out again. Just as dealer got by small talk, got around to talking tractor, Frank and Doug went by 130 draging DB backwards. The dealer was a bit hostile about their doing this with his new demonstrator. Dad was gravely concerned about the ability of the DB. It went down the road next morning. Dad went back to baling with Farmall 300. Next new tractor became the 560D. We continued to buy NH hay and forage equipment, but DB's were never mentioned again.
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