Is a Jeep better than a tractor?

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 lhfarmbt wrote:

 duffer wrote:

 Bob3b wrote:

turning brakes,

That right there is what killed use of the 47 2A my father bought in 1950.  It just couldn't turn sharp enough to really be efficient at the only task it could reasonably do: rake hay.  It couldn't do any plowing or tillage on our steep ground-insufficient traction/weight.

But it was handy for a multitude of other tasks.  Just not as handy as the 57 FC 150 that replaced it.  The FC lasted 50 years.

Just curious - what tractor replaced the Jeep?  What part of the country was this?

Thanks

And of course, that machine had a story of its own.  It was being used to skid logs south of Bozeman and got frozen down in ice.  The loggers tried to free it by just bumping it back and forth like a stuck car but succeeded in only taking out the ring and pinion.  My father bought it, not unlike a lot of Jeeps, as a truck load of parts.  The local Cat dealer at the time, Nash-Davis, let him use a corner of their shop and he spent the winter putting it all back together.  That was probably in 1951 or 52.  Stuff like that just doesn't happen anymore.

The 1937 Cat 22 is still here.  My father also had a 1937 McCormick Deering T20, their competing model.  Those two machines weren't really comparable.  The Cat was a couple decades worth better engineered in every way.