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Originally Posted by pennsiveguy
Actually no, I didn't know that. Thanks! For decades, Ford made a complete line of farm machinery. And medium and heavy trucks, which I drove a lot of. We only recently sold our old '57 F6 that we used to use for hauling firewood.
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So I googled it AFTER I wrote that. I was going from memory of reading a biography of Henry Ford, which as I remember stayed Mr. Henry invented the 3-point. The internet says Harry Ferguson patented the 3-point hitch. Apparently Ferguson had to convince Henry to adopt the 3-point as the design element of the N-series tractors. It is my memory from a book I read probably 35-40 years ago, so now I have to double check. Lol. The book is Ford, the Man and the Machine.
More to follow. I can say that most of Ford's tractors we actually built in Ireland... (If I have that right too
). My tractor is a New Holland, which I picked a lot from its lineage leading back to the Ford tractor company.