1937 Plow Trac

This is my buddy Country-Ham and his 1937 Montgomery Ward Plow Trac, essentially a walk-behind tractor. He had it, along with a similar David Brown cultivator and a couple of Massey-Ferguson lawn tractors on display at the Eagleville Tractor Show this week-end.

You want to talk about a piece of gear that looks like it might kick your ass? Then this Plow Trac is it folks. Eight-hundred pounds of ass-kicking. Timmy said it was only five horse-power but it sure seemed like more. This thing also had a ball hitch right there between the plow blades that you see so that you could walk directly behind the cultivator, holding on to the handles, and pull something else behind you. I can't think of an easier way to plow my-own-self right into the damn ground.

I personally thought that it's one redeeming value was that when he started it, it was loud as hell. Just like a good old big four-stroke single race-bike. And we all know that loud pipes save lives.......He said it came stock that way.

Standing behind him there on the right with that hand on his hip is the infamous Mr. Wesley, press brake operator from hell, a genius bender of metal. He must be, he made all those cleats for those wheels on the Plow Trac that you see here. A true heavy metal master, as it were!

It sure was good to see you guys! More to come.......