Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 13, 2009

Furthermore, you’re a Plugger if you’ve heard of a Fordson tractor.

How about if you know the exact color of not only Fordson, but Alice Chalmers as well?

So they don’t use John Deere?

My training was with a Farmall…. I even popped a wheelie once!! (Don’t ask… Dad was on the tow-bar at the time… STILL a touchy subject!!)

Danny Z,

I think Garfield creator Jim Davis could do something with that story.

My first was at three years of age. Drive the Ford pickup to the end of the field and turn off the ignition. Easy, Dad let out the clutch with the truck in first gear.

no, you are not necessarily a plugger but you ARE most likely a farmer

A blue Fordson? I doubt it.

Yep, mine was a John Deere Model 40 with a 2-disk breaking plow. Just keep going in circles ‘till you’re through.

An old fergison.

My Dad had an Alice Chalmers. When we went to the Smithsonian in the 70’s, they had a newer tractor in there than the one he was using to farm with!

Allis, Allis-Chalmers - got nothing to do with Alice

Mine was a John Deere.

I’d never heard of “Fordson”, but the Wikipedia article on “Fordson tractor” is an interesting bit of industrial history. The “Ford” part was the legendary Henry Ford and the “Son” part was his son Edsel (which is probably what Gweedo’s comment referred to).

I suspect most of us know how Ford revolutionized the American highway, but I never realized how he did the same for the American farm.

The tractor in the cartoon is a Fordson Major. Built in England and sold in the US from about 53 to 60. Bigger than the 8n and NAA Fords. Diesel.