It had a wheelbase of 5.25 feet, was 4.58 feet tall, 5.25 feet wide, and 8.5 feet long. The Fordson F was a smaller tractor, weighing in at about 2,920 pounds. When the test was completed again in 1926, the maximum belt power had gone up to 22.28hp, the maximum drawbar power was 12.325hp, and the maximum drawbar pull was 2,142 pounds. The maximum drawbar power was 9.34hp and the maximum drawbar pull was 2,187 pounds. In the Nebraska Tractor Test completed in 1920, the maximum belt power was 19.15hp. In reverse, the Model F will go up to 2.1mph. The speeds range from 1.6mph in first gear to 7mph in third. In 1920, Fordson changed the engines to a nearly identical Ford engine.Īs for the transmission, this two-wheel drive tractor has three forward gears and one reverse. The engine was liquid cooled, and put out about 20horsepower. This engine had four cylinders, natural aspiration, and was run on distillate fuel. For the first three years of production, the Model F had a Hercules engine. The majority of the Fordson Fs were manufactured in Dearborn, MI, but about 7,600 were manufactured at a factory in Cork, Ireland. This allowed small farmers who may have been a bit skeptical to buy a tractor for the first time. They kept things very simple, and most importantly, inexpensive. Fordson created the model F with the simple farmers in mind. Tractors of competitors were becoming very complex, and were fairly expensive. It was produced from 1917 until 1927, and is often looked at as the most influential tractor of all time. The Fordson F was the first tractor released by the company.