The Window on the Plains Museum has a new loaner antique tractor on display. The 2N Ford tractor belonged to John A Scott, the grandfather of Patricia Hammit and Patsy Montoya who are loaning the tractor to the Museum. Patricia and Patsy are the twin daughters of Joe and June Scott of Dumas, Texas.
A little history of the 2N tractor
| The story of the deal between Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson, which was sealed with only a handshake, has been told so many times by so many authors that I'm not sure exactly what happened. Basically, Harry Ferguson invented the three-point hitch and Ford agreed to put it on his new Ford 9N tractor. Called the "Ferguson System", this three-point hitch was put together using a combination of linkage (three different linkage points, two on bottom and one on top) and hydraulics. It use to be that hooking up an implement to a tractor was a major affair. Farmers had hoists and helpers and all kinds of inovative ways to get that heavy thing hooked up. With the Ferguson System they need only back up to the implement, hook it up, raise it with the hydraulics and off they went. |
History thanks to http://www.9nford.com/
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