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