Garden Tractors - Five Sizes Furnish Power

GARDEN TRACTORS
(Wheel Horse)

Five Sizes Furnish Power for Every Grower’s Requirements
From a 1938 Montgomery Ward Farm Catalog
This material provided as a courtesy by Farmerik and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/simplicity_walking_tractors/

[This pre-war document gives lots of details about what two wheel tractors can do. The largest model in this catalog weighed nearly a half ton when ready to work in your garden. The small and mid size units described here are not all that different than the two wheel tractors Ward's sold until end of the 1960's. After WWII, engines with 2 or 3 times higher H. P. ratings were used. - FARMERIK]

Why Every Grower Needs Tractor Power

Every truck farmer, commercial grower and home gardener can multiply his profits with Wards Garden Tractors.

Be First on the Market With Crops - Command Top Prices

Motorized equipment is speedy - does work faster. You finish plowing, discing, seeding and cultivating far ahead of producers using old fashioned hand methods.

Savings on Labor Costs Can Pay for Your Tractor

With tractor equipment one man can do the work of several. Multiple row seeding, harrowing and cultivating is equivalent ot 4 or 5 men using push tools and many more using hand hoes. Often the savings in a single season can pay for a tractor.

Precision Tractor Equipment Does the Work Better

Tractors and tools are designed by engineers who pioneered the garden tractor field. Rows are seeded in measured quantities. Rows are straight for fast efficient cultivation. The quality of the work is not reduced by back breaking labor and fatigue.

It’s a Pleasure to Operate this Precision Equipment

It’s actually fun to run these tractors. They are so simple and easy to control that a boy can handle them for hours without tiring. Save your back with tractor equipment - have more time to enjoy living.

Built to Requirements of Commercial Gardeners

Wards tractors meet the exacting requirements of comercial growers. Only Wards offer the new, quick change, universal tool carriage. Like all Wards attachments it is a complete departure from ordinary garden tractor construction. It is built strong and heavy for tractor use, not just a light toy-weight adaption of hand push tools. It provides carriage, drawbar, lift and depth regulator for every attachment except the plow. Attachments are complete, fully assembled units. Saves you hours of time usually lost in changing equipment.

Wards tractors have proper range of tread adjustment to adapt them for narrow row commercial work. The variable speed transmission, the enclosed gear drive, the positive power turn and patented drawbar hitch make tractor and tools simple and easy to control. These are all features that guarantee more work - greater speed - and lower operating costs.

Engine Horse Power Does Not Mean Work Horses

Garden tractors are not designed to replace horses and heavy horse drawn field implements. The term horse power applied to Wards garden tractor engines is an S.A.E. (Society of Automotove Engineers) brake horse power rating. It is an engineering term for measuring mechanical engine power. It should not be compared to actual work horses. For example, a 3 H.P. does not mean the tractor will replace 3 horses.

While Wards tractors are not made to handle heavy horse drawn equipment, the larger tractors do as much or more work than one-horse cultivators and similar light horse tools. In fact many of the attachments are equipped with the same shovels, sweeps, hoes, etc. as one-horse implements.

When horses are used for truck farming, commercial gardening, etc. many users report that our largest tractors replace a big horse or light team and at a big savings in cost. In addition the tractor has many advantages. With it you can work narrow rows, close to fences, get into corners, around shrubbery, under low trees and do delicate cultivation impossible with horses. There is no feeding cost while your tractor is idle. Experts have estimated that a tractor with a 3 H.P. engine can be operated at an annual savings of $120 in cost as compared with a horse. In addition, with its power take-off your tractor can save you the cost of an additional engine. It serves as a portable power unit for sawing, grinding, pumping and similar engine jobs.

How to Choose the Size Tractor You Need

Wards built garden tractors in five different sizes from 3/4 H.P. to 5 H.P. to meet every garden tractor need. Since the greatest part of operating time is devoted to cultivating operations it is here that Wards tractors bring you the biggest savings. The finest engineering skill has been employed to make our attachments the most complete and efficient lines of precision equipment you can buy.

Power Cultivator with 3/4 H.P. Engine

Designed for cross cultivating and a wide variety of light cultivating jobs. Also equipped to do seeding, furrowing, hilling, weeding, sowing, discing and lawn mowing. (Not recommended for plowing.) Ideal for home gardens, nurseries, and as auxilliary machine for commercial gardeners.

Tractors with 1 or 2 H.P. Engines

Designed primarily for fast, economical 1 and 2 row cultivating in commercial narrow crops 12 to 16 inches apart. Equipped to do every kind of cultivating, seeding, furrow opening, weeding, harrowing, pulverizing and to handle any standard lawn mower. Plowing is secondary function but does excellent work under reasonable conditions. NOTE: Because plowing is secondary to cultivating extension rings or dual rubber tired wheels are necessary for plowing to insure proper traction and balance.

Capacities: 1 H.P. - Handles 7 inch plow 3 ½ to 5 inches deep in garden soil at speeds to 1 3/4 miles per hour. Will plow 1 or 1 1/4 acres per day. Cultivates up to 8 acres per day.

2 H.P. - Handles 7 inch plow 4 to 5 ½ inches deep in stubble or garden soil at speeds up to 2 miles per hour. Will plow 1 or 1 1/4 acres per day. Cultivates up to 8 acres per day.

Tractors with 3 or 5 H.P. Engines

Designed for heavier and deeper 1, 2 and 3 row cultivating in commercial narrow row crops and for handling garden crops in wider rows. Does 1, 2 and 3 row seeding and all types of cultivating, using larger horse type hoes, sweeps, shovels, etc. Also handles heavier, wider spring tooth, spike tooth and disc harrows. Has reserve power to operate riding sprayer and for use with riding cart. Big auto type transmission offers 4 speeds and power ratios for fast or slow, light or heavy duty jobs. Has extra power, weight and traction to do capable plowing under tough conditions. NOTE: Extension rims necessary with metal wheels to secure proper traction when plowing.

Capacities: 3 H.P. - Handles 10 inch plow 4 ½ to 6 inches deep in stubble, garden soil or sod at speeds up to 2 ½ miles per hour. Plows 1 to 2 acres per day. Cultivates up to 8 acres per day.

Capacities: 5 H.P. - Handles 12 inch plow 5 to 7 inches deep in stubble, garden soil or sod at speeds up to 3 miles per hour. For tough plowing use 10 inch plow. Plows 1 ½ to 2 ½ acres per day. Cultivates up to 8 acres per day.

IMPORTANT: These conservative estimates are based on average conditions using standard equipment. However, allowance should be made for unusual soil conditions, where more than a standard number of penetrating tools are used on attachment, where extra high altitudes reduce power output and similar problems.

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