FRIDAY DECEMBER 6 1946 Thought of the idea today of having a tricycle type of general purpost tractor so designed that the cultivators would be in front of the front wheels. In this way a low center of gravity tractor could be built with operator seated midway [Drawing: tractor design from Ford tractor] between the front and rear wheels. With cultivator in front of tractor wheels (the shovels next the row) the angle fo vision of operator would be alright. The other shovels would be behind the rear tractor wheels. The front shovels would be supported by gauge wheels. We expect to take a Ford Tractor and rebuild it into a tractor of this design. It seems time to do somehting along this line. Hydraulic Control makes it unnecessary to place the operator at the rear of the tractor, as there will be no levers to raise and lower hydraulically on drawn implements as they can be controlled.

Creator

• Brown, Theophilus

Language

• English

Identifier

• 1946_2_175
• MS02.01.26.391

Keyword

• diary

Year

• 1946

Date created

• 1946-12-06

Related url

•  https://digital.wpi.edu/show/qv33s1060

Resource type

• Image

Source

• MS02.01.26.391.434

Last modified

• 2023-09-05