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AS I SAW IT. XXV

By Rolland E. Maxwell,

Route 4, Huntington, Indiana 46750

As has been pointed out before, the first old tractors were big cumbersome ones, patterned after steam engines, and they often weighed ten or twelve tons each. They were hard to handle, steer, start and maintain. Some were made on order by companies like the Minneapolis Steel and Machine Co. They seemed to go on the principle that the bigger they were, the more they could do, and that they could make more money on the sale of one big one than two small ones and there would be less servicing. But it did not always turn out that way. Then to, there was more of a demand for big Ones. These early big tractors had the power for the large separators and plows once you got them started, which was their biggest weakness. The ignition was their weakest point and more than one ran all night once it was started.

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