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UNIDENTIFIABLE WOODEN OBJECT
IH IMPLEMENT IDENTIFIED
In your June 2001 issue on page 5 was a picture of International Harvester implement: this is a one rod cultivator pulled by one horse that went between rows of corn and other crops. The lever adjusted the width to fit between rows of crops. The two flat straps had a wooden handle that the operator controlled. I know - I used one back in 1935, 1936, and 1937. My dad got a new tractor and two-row cultivator to use.
We also used this in potato fields too. You have a great magazine.
Don Barnett 127 Wilson Ave. Gallon, OH 44833-3260
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Rick Wuertz Marion, SD rwuertz@gwtc. net
I am enjoying your magazine, but have a couple of questions. Has any one besides me ever seen a Nelson tractor? When I was a boy, our neighbor had a Nelson tractor and a threshing machine. I am interested in the tractor. As well as I remember, they never used it for anything but threshing. It is the only one I have ever seen. I am 86 years old, so it was quite while ago.
My other comment is about the Fordson tractor. Someone said they never had any power take-off equipment, but this is not so. We had a Fordson and a power take-off mower. One removed the drawbar assembly and the mower bolted on in its place. One removed the nut on the end of the worm drive and a clutch affair bolted to the worm drive. If I remember right, the mower was called a Taco, made by the Detroit Machine Co. We knew some people that lived about 20 miles from us and they had one of the same mowers. These two machines were the only ones I ever saw. They were one of the best mowers we ever used. We lived in the sandhillls of Nebraska and mowed 500 to 700 acres of grass hay every year.
Gerald Lockhart 400 2nd Street, Apt. 28 Fort Lumpton, CO 80621
IDENTIFYING JULY COVER PICTURE
Just received my second issue of your magazine and find it very interesting. It brings back a lot of memories. I grew up the son of an International Harvester dealer and the second tractor that my dad had on our farm was one like the one on your cover.
It was a Farmall F-14 and the one in your photo looks just like it except for the fenders. In this photo the raised steering shaft with the flex joint at the steering gear tells me that it is a 14 and not an F-12 which had a steering shaft level with the hood.