In the 1941 Taco farm year book, all sorts of products and equipment were being offered by the Tudhope Anderson Company but judging by the number of times a full page was devoted to the Autotrac, this is what they wanted to sell you the most. By 1941 there were 20 or so years-worth of obsolete cars around and they made good candidates for a cheap farm tractor conversion.
I have idle questions. [1] Were Taco conversions and Otaco plows (a few posts ago) products of the same mfgr, and [2] sold thru the same 1941 yearbook/catalog? [3] Did my imagination invent the notion I have that the conversion could be accomplished with hand tools? [4] Would the average farmer of 1941 have had welding torches, or even a stick welder? And [5] Do any Progress Is Fine readers (or the author) know what was involved in putting the conversion together?
ReplyDeleteThe shorter-coupled Tacos pictured look like flipping over backwards would be well within their capabilities, and maybe their favorite thing to do. I spose there were always front-end weights though.
Thanks as always for the Show & Tell. My uncle Mac plowed, etc., with a war-surplus Jeep w/o getting flipped over on and crushed, as far as I could tell.
I'm staying with my No. 51 walking plow
ReplyDeleteI tried the Number Fifty-Two
ReplyDeleteAnd found it simply wouldn't do
I find I'm having much more fun
Cutting ruts with Fifty-One