'Drive On' Tractor Conversion
Well, this bit of kit even has an extra external fam for the radiator. Somehow I don't think this one would have lasted long on the market!
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'Drive On' Tractor Conversion
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- First Name: Wayne
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The Pullford (and other) kits claimed that they could be converted back or forth in about an hour or less. Personally, having worked on many similar things, I find that time estimate rather doubtful. This? If the farmer had some uneven spot of ground around the barn, handy to use? I could see this being unchained, and driven off in under ten minutes. Re-converting to go plow the next 40 might take fifteen minutes. Probably rather expensive for the convenience.
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These photos are of an "Schofield" sometimes advertised as an "Auto-motive Tractor" manufactured by the Automotive Tractor Company, Kansas City, Missouri. Over the few years this product was around it was listed under several different yet similar names at several different locations. This type of attachment was built with a hitch so you could tow it behind your auto and when you arrived at the field you could unhitch' put ramps on the back' and drive around an up on the tractor. There was a stop for the front wheels so the auto would not roll forward. The tractor used a pinion and bull gear. There were hubs with sprockets that attached to the rear wheels of the auto. You would attach chains on top to the sprockets on the auto wheels and below to sprockets on shafts that had the pinions mounted on the ends. A lifting mechanism would then be cranked raising the auto so the wheels would be in the air and the chains would be tightened. Start your auto and in the case of the T put it in high gear and go and plow! P.S. There was actually three other companies that made a similar type of tractor all with different ways of driving off the auto but Schofield is the one you see in most printed material both era and newer.
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