Fordson Tractor

This is not any members of our family or our tractor, just repersentative.

I was looking through a book about Armand Hammer who had a close tie with the Russia. In a picture it showed Mr. Hammer with a Fordson tractor that he introduced into Russia and 1923. That picture of the Fordson tractor brought back a lot of memories. We used a Fordson tractor on our farm for years and years. The thing about that tractor was that we were able to work with it in the fields from a very early age. One of the most impressive things about that tractor was its practicality and its very very loud whine when in gear. It did not have a muffler but the whine was so loud that you did not hear the unmiffled exhaust. The noise was so loud that it was necessary to yell to be heard by another person riding on that Fordson while it was in plough gear, that was most of the time. Now that I think of it, my father, Joe and I were the three members of the family that spent time working with it. My father lost almost all of his hearing, Joe used hearing aids that did not help much and I have had poor high frequency listening ability. I’m not saying it was the cause but it may have been.. Reflections are interesting.