Farm and Garden Tractors; How to Buy, Run, Repair and Take Care of Them

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... of the tractor. When the plow is hitched up B Fig. 70b.--Some Tools Used With Garden Tractors right it will give not only the depth and width you want but when it is properly adjusted the tractor will hold to the furrow and you have only to follow along until you come to a corner and then turn it. To take the plow from the ground you simply lift up on the handles of the tractor and this raises the point of the plow when it quickly comes to the surface; a latch catches and holds the plow up and it will then slide on its heel along the ground. When you want to plow again all you have to do to start the point into the ground is to pull up a small trip chain which is fastened to the spring latch and this brings it at an angle so that it will dig in and it will go in to whatever depth you adjust it for. The speed of the tractor when plowing is from % to 2Y2 miles per hour depending on the soil and it only takes about 2 gallons of gasoline to plow right along for 10 hours. The Power Take Off.--The Beeman tractor will do anything in the way of belt work that any four horse power engine will do and, different from a stationary engine, it will do it anywhere. With the power take off you can run a feed grinder, pump-jack, washing machine, milking machine, cream separator, fanning mill, onion topper, feed cutter, circular saw, corn sheller, grindstone, emery wheel, and even a small electric lighting plant. The Universal 1-4.9 Tractor.--This truck garden tractor is a little bigger all round than the tractor just described and, consequently, it will do work that is proportionately heavier. It is built by the Elderfields Mechanics Co., Port Washington, Long Island, New York, and costs $425. How it is Made.--The Universal garden tractor has three...