- FAIRBANKS MORSE SCALE 1000 LBS SERIAL 6676982 FULL
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But it could pull two plows for eight hours on just 4 gallons of fuel,” he says, recalling the days of his youth when diesel sold for 6 cents a gallon.Ĭharles’ Field Marshall is part of a diverse collection. When it idles, it bounces off the ground. The single-cylinder diesel engine generated 40 hp.
FAIRBANKS MORSE SCALE 1000 LBS SERIAL 6676982 SERIES
Many were exported, mainly to Canada.Ĭharles Hood, Franklin, Tenn., showed another British transplant: a 1948 Series 2 Field Marshall manufactured in Gainsborough, Great Britain. Before that year, the model was painted gray and green afterwards, gray and red. The tractor’s unique “copper bottom” paint job was done for one year only, from October 1956 to October 1957. “There was a lot more to this one,” Ed says. The FE-35, manufactured in England, was even more of a project.
How well? “This tractor is going to win the slow race,” Felecia says confidently. Then we had the hood and the fenders painted.” The family’s first restoration project was a success.
We took it completely apart, stripped it down and overhauled the engine. “The rear fenders had dents and below the grille it was all rusted out. “About all the paint was gone,” he recalls. “As soon as I saw it, I fell in love,” he says. Just down the aisle from William’s Ford was a pair of stand-out Fergusons – a 1956 TO-35 and a 1957 FE-35 – displayed by Ed and Dean Nix, Lawrenceburg, and their son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Felecia Nix.Įd bought the TO-35 from his cousin. “I don’t fish or chase women,” William says with a grin. “It sat forever in a shed, and it wasn’t a dry shed.” Today, the tractor is a regular on the show circuit. “When I got it, it was a piece of junk,” he says. People here are nice and friendly.” He brought an immaculately restored 1952 Ford 8N to the Crossroads show last August. “This is one of the biggest shows in the area,” he says, “but it’s just a good environment. “People have made this show what it is today.”Įxhibitor William Kilgore, Nauvoo, Ala., agrees. “At that first show 11 years ago, I shook the hand of every person who drove a trailer through that gate,” he says. Threet, one of the event’s founding fathers, said a friendly, down-home atmosphere sets the Crossroads of Dixie show apart. The next year, the show stretched to a second day, and exhibitors brought 800 tractors. The next year, the club added a tractor pull and 400 tractors came in. Some 200 tractors showed up for the first show, a one-day display at the city park. I said ‘you just watch.’ After the first one, they all wanted on the bandwagon.” “People were kind of sniggering and laughing when we said were going to put on a tractor show in Lawrenceburg. “Our first show, 11 years ago, cost $1,200 to put on,” Russell recalls.
“Those days were plum full, but we liked it a whole lot better.” More than 300 tractors were featured in pulls both nights, and tractor games filled in the gaps. "That's why we're proud to say that The Fairbanks Company provides Basic Products for Industry's Basic Work.“We put three days into two days,” says Crossroads club President Russell Counce. With our modern manufacturing capabilities and engineering design department, we are able to produce customized material handling equipment that meet our customer's specific needs provided with a 2-year warranty. To maintain our leadership role in the industry, we have modernized our facilities with the latest in robotic welding, electrostatic powder coating, and CNC machining of wood parts.įor more than 125 years, these techniques have resulted in the expansion of our product offerings, making us a premier supplier of casters, wheels, handtrucks, platform trucks, and dollies, all made in the USA.
FAIRBANKS MORSE SCALE 1000 LBS SERIAL 6676982 FULL
Our full product line facilities encompass more than 200,000 square feet of production and warehousing space. Since 1887, the Fairbanks Company has been proudly shipping quality material handling equipment from our manufacturing facilities in Rome, Georgia.