im 14, since i live in south america (Uruguay) pretty much the tractors haven't catch up with modern technologies yet, my grandpa has a Massey Ferguson 95x from 1973, it doesn't has brakes, either hidraulic direction, a slow gearbox, he gave me that tractor for me to work few time ago, the region i have it in is really hilly, if you overturn a little bit you might just get crushed by your own tractor and roll over a few times down hill, not to mention the wet mud and rocky parts, i learned how to drive it since i was 6 and since then got the experience, i also learned with 50's ford tractors and mf (like in the video ones), 80's case internationals, old case traction king, ford 8030, 5000, new holland 7630, new holland TM 150, etc most modern i have gotten was a 298 Massey Ferguson 4x4 advanced and a John Deere CTS Rice, all of that in rice fields in really hard conditions of mud, i currently work for a small family company of rice cultivators.
They’ve not only got power steering in this video but also drive by wire lol 😂 he’s controlling that tractor on/off steering/brakes perhaps in the 1960’s with a wired remote control walking way behind it. Flip
It looks like a 4 cylinder 35 they were using for the "remote" control tests so I guess the date is around 1957 to 1959 (assuming they were using a fairly new tractor). I still use a 1963 35x with a roll bar but I'm super cautious with it. There is one footpath that I have given up mowing with the 35x as the wear from walkers has, over the years, changed the profile of the land in a couple of places. I now do that with a 2-wheel BCS 740 machine - slow but safer.
OMG this video has taken me back to my days in agricultural college in the 70s where we were shown many of these safety related films. Watching them and learning from them is why many of us are still alive today and not one of the unfortunate statistics mentioned in this film. A great old film that jogged many old memories.
I remember reading an article, in the 2000s, I think, that said tractors that year had, for the first time, ceased to be the cause of the majority of fatalities on farms. I think it was working at height (falling off/through barn roofs etc.) that had taken over.
Yes, it's an interesting one. I do wonder how the accident statistics changed after their introduction. I work on the basis that the bar might just kill you more effectively if you got under it. I certainly think it looks safer than it is.
They’ve not only got power steering in this video but also drive by wire lol 😂 he’s controlling that tractor on/off steering/brakes perhaps in the 1960’s with a wired remote control walking way behind it. Flip
Four wheel drive were not commonly available in the early 1960s when this film would have been made. Unlike today where they are the normal and a modern two wheel drive tractor today is a rare sight on a farm.
