I've yet to actually find the pictures but my grandmother swears this is true:
My great grandfather bought new a 1928 Farmall Regular. For those who don't know tractors the Regular was the first tractor with the now common tricycle front wheel arrangement where the two front wheels are close together. Top speed of that machine is about 4mph. He also owned a 1919 Buick open touring car which was normally used to go to town about 5 miles away. However to haul the whole family and produce to town, or to return with supplies or if they took the hired hands with them the Buick was too small so they took a truck rear end and made it the front axle for a wagon. They powered that axle with the PTO of the tractor. Supposedly this arrangement could make about 20mph which I imagine to be as fast as anybody would dare. TK (great grandfather) died in 1933 when the brakes failed in the Buick and he was hit by a train, to give you an idea of the time period. -Curt Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:01:06 -0500 From: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Volvo? now fast tractors Message-ID: <50a80922.90...@constructivity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Some of the Amish have some sort of dispensation about tractors, so they put road gears in them and can go quite fast. They build these little wagon buggy things they can all crowd into, and go to Walmart and Tractor Supply. I see them doing this in KY, it is funny as hell except it looks like a total recipe for disaster and death and destruction. -R _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
