Yakima Hitch

The Lindeman link says that Lindeman and Deere worked together on WW2 Navy Water Buffalos. I can't tell if it was LVT-2 or LVT-4.

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/US/LVT-4_Water_Buffalo.php

http://lindemanarchives.com/lindeman-archives-history/

This article mentions that the War Production Board had largely shut down Deere tractor production during WW2.

I went through one training exercise where we came down the rope ladders and into landing craft which we rode ashore in. Once ashore, we rode in Amtracs through the swamps. One trick was to make sure every landing craft contained the driver(s) that was to move the equipment in the landing craft through the surf onto the beach. There were people who rode the Amtracs through the plunge into the ocean. Once they bobbed back up, the tracks paddled against the water to propel them to shore.

Origin of the Yakima Hitch

This defines what a rockshaft is.

https://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=jd&th=160890

The John Deere A was introduced in 1934 with hydraulics. I suspect that the rockshaft intended to lift cultivators was a target for Lindeman to use to lift arms for the Yakima Hitch. Can anyone verify that the John Deere A was the first one to get a Yakima Hitch?

https://www.agriculture.com/machinery/tractors/100-years-of-john-deere-tractors

The Yakima Hitch tool carriers were first built for the A, B, and G.

Lindeman was purchased by Deere in 1946.

http://lindemanarchives.com/lindeman-archives-history/

At one time, Lindeman made single bottom plows for the 9N.

The Challenger 65 had some Lindeman involvement.

This article mentions that the War Production Board had largely shut down Deere tractor production during WW2.

https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Lindeman three point hitch implement

There is a great shot of a Lindeman three point plow behind a 9N.

lindemanarchives.com/lindeman-archives-history/two-way-plow/


https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Shot in the behind

I was talking to a co-worker recently. His uncle had been a union activist at Ford who received a bullet in the hip from one of the Ford Service Department team. I'll have to ask him if the 9N was in production yet.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20030616/SUB/306160746/harry-bennett%3A-henry-fords-chief-thug-targets-uaw-later-threatens

Bennett got the boot. Sorensen was left with no assignment so resigned. Harry Ferguson just got his intellectual property stolen.

[James] <snip> Henry Ford had designated the former boxer Harry Bennett to succeed him. Henry Ford's widow put in her grandson Henry Ford 2 instead. We do not know if Harry Bennett would have voided the handshake agreement had he become Ford president. <snip>

Ford Tractor Advertising songs

I listen to the news and talk programs on public radio often when I drive. That is not to say that I do or do not occupy the same location on the point of view spectrum that they do. A couple of days ago they talked about songs written for advertising including one for Ford Tractor. Ford itself apparently sold all rights to talk about Ford Tractor with the sale to Fiat.

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=674524278

https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Ferguson started 8N design

The October 2018 (issue 88) of Ferguson Furrows has an article "Harry's Toolbox: Installation & Features of the Horseshoe Drawbar". The author is Robert Sybrandy.

Robert writes that the Ferguson design team had started design work on a tractor update that became the 8N. When the Ferguson design team was cut out of the 8N effort, they applied some of the improvements to the TE-20 design.

Harry Ferguson, lobbyist to the US Presidency

The October 2018 (issue 88) of Ferguson Furrows has an article "The Harry Ferguson Story: Part Two", by Jane Brooks. This article mentions that Harry Ferguson lobbied FDR to get materials to get production of the Ford-Ferguson 2N resumed at the Rouge complex after it had stalled due to lack of material. Charles Sorensen, in his biography, seems to have glossed over this fact.

Henry Ford is described by Charles Sorensen as hating FDR.


https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Horseshoe Drawbar

The October 2018 (issue 88) of Ferguson Furrows has an article "Harry's Toolbox: Installation & Features of the Horseshoe Drawbar". The author is Robert Sybrandy. I do not ever remember seeing a Ferguson with one of these. Looks like a new one could be laser cut from steel plate.

Robert says he saw the same item in 8N accessory brochures but not in any Ford parts book. The man I know who worked on Ford tractor parts books is close to aging out.



https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries made MF125

From the book MASSEY FERGUSON 100 SERIES IN DETAIL. Page 11. MF125 Next in the numerical lineup is an oddball, the Japanese MF125, This model was produced in 1973 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at the Sagamihara works especially for the Japanese market under license from MF. It was powered by Mitsubishi's own KE135 diesel engine, a two cylinder, four stroke water-cooled with an output of 25bhp. Looks like collectors may have to try and import one from Japan.

https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

I am not sure how close the relationship there is between MHI and the Mitsubishi that makes autos. Mitsubishi seems to be floundering since Chrysler sold off its controlling shares. Mitshbishi had drifted under control of Renault-Nissan alliance but the charges of tax fraud by the Japanese government against the Brazilian head of Renault Carlos Ghosn may have wekaend that lashup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault%E2%80%93Nissan%E2%80%93Mitsubishi_Alliance

MHI lists an impressive array of products including military tanks, but not tractors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries

Sorensen did not understand that Ferguson was already selling a tractor mounted plow when they met in 1917

This link has a recipe for Irish potato farls. Like so many, family word of mouth mentioned being part of the colonial era migration from Ireland to Appalachia but nothing more than that.

This link documents that when Harry Ferguson met Charles Sorensen of Ford in England in 1917, Ferguson had already developed a manually lifted plow that attached to Model T tractor conversions. Sorensen was scouting a location to setup Fordson tractor production.

http://www.bookofdaystales.com/harry-ferguson/

This is important because Sorensen's statements in his book indicate surprise at Ferguson having a working model of the plow. It reads like Sorensen did not really get that Ferguson was already selling tractor mounted plows that competed with the Fordson.

https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Chapter on Harry Ferguson

There is a lot of biographical information in this link. You can read some of the book pages under the chapter about Harry Ferguson. I am going to buy the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Distinguished-Figures-Mechanism-Machine-Science/dp/1402063652/ref=pd_rhf_schuc_p_img_7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=875A0RNH0T8ZTZH7A4R3

Gordon Pennock of or formerly of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in Indiana wrote the chapter on Harry. Does anyone know Dr. Pennock?

I was unaware that Ferguson had received patents involving carburetors.

https://harryferguson.blogspot.com

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries made MF125

About 8 or 9 years back I was driving through Detroit and spotted a yellow Massey Ferguson forklift (they say HiLo around there), It was about a 1960  TO based machine  looking like a mast was mounted where the 3 point should be and the seat was reversed. It was about 30 ^oF but the gasoline Continental  fired right up.

Fast forward to now. Mitsubishi is making the Caterpillar forklifts. Towmoter, formerly in Mentor Ohio, closed quite a ways back.

http://www.mcfa.com/en/mcfa

I am told Mitsubishi Heavy Industries builds the trackhoes for Caterpillar.

[James Peck]  From the book MASSEY FERGUSON 100 SERIES IN DETAIL. Page 11. MF125 Next in the numerical lineup is an oddball, the Japanese MF125, This model was produced in 1973 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at the Sagamihara works especially for the Japanese market under license from MF. It was powered by Mitsubishi's own KE135 diesel engine, a two cylinder, four stroke water-cooled with an output of 25bhp. Looks like collectors may have to try and import one from Japan.

I am not sure how close the relationship there is between MHI and the Mitsubishi that makes autos. Mitsubishi seems to be floundering since Chrysler sold off its controlling shares. Mitsubishis had drifted under control of Renault-Nissan alliance but the charges of tax fraud by the Japanese government against the Brazilian head of Renault Carlos Ghosn may have weakened that lash up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault%E2%80%93Nissan%E2%80%93Mitsubishi_Alliance

MHI lists an impressive array of products including military tanks, but not tractors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries

I was not aware that the Ferguson-Brown Type A had a PTO.

http://fergusontractors.org/nfs/1-18-pto-shaft-and-1-38-pto-shaft/

South African Web Article

This South African web article seems to be exceptionally well written. It does mention that the original Ferguson System controls from the pump suction side. That is not the prevailing way things are done nowadays.

What is really relevant here is that the Ferguson TE20 was in production in Coventry while the 9N was in production at Highland Park.

http://agriline.co.za/tractorparts/series_TE/Ferguson_TEA_20.html

South Arica is Zuid-Afrika in Dutch but Suid-Afrika in Afrikaans. How did they choose .za for internet addresses?

http://www.101languages.net/countries/south-africa-in-other-languages/