The tractor was meant to replace the work of draft horses, the large, gentle creatures who, along with oxen and mules, had supplied the farm's power for centuries.
Few farms were as fortunate as the Harrisons' on which one brother had taken numerous mechanical courses and had even worked in a tractor repair shop.
But that very spring it got so hot that an old broken down tractor that I rounded up did more work than the twelve horses we had.
One-tenth of the farms enjoyed the use of a tractorand 25% had a radio.
Henry Moffett, realizing that the advent of the tractor and automobile would eliminate the need for his business, displayed considerable foresight by collecting blacksmithing tools all over the Washington area.
Often the use of a tractor cut work time by half or more.
We had a very good tractor with steel wheels, and a salesman came in and said, 'I'm representing Goodrich Rubber Company.
With these we can guide you and explain the plants to you as you work, and our tractor beams will be of assistance to you in moving heavy objects, even at such distances from the surface as we Titanians shall have to maintain.
Or are you going over there every day on a tractorbeam to work, as Norman suggested?
A green tractor beam reached out, seizing the derelict, and both structures darted away at such a pace that in a few minutes they had disappeared in the black depths of space.
Through it Stevens saw with satisfaction that the Forlorn Hope was not being abandoned; in the grip of powerful tractor beams, every fragment of the wreckage was following close behind them in their flight through space.
The Titanians have had a tractor ray for ages--he sent me complete dope on it--and the Jovians have got them both.
The plates and grids presented more serious problems; but they were solved and, long before Titan was reached, the tube was out in space, supported by a Titanian tractor beam between the two vessels.
The gigantic composite tractor beam snapped on and held.
There she was anchored by tractor beams, and the two hundred picked men of the I-P police, in full space equipment, prepared to board the gigantic fortress of the void.
Onward and upward flashed the gigantic duplex cone, its entire whirling mass laced and latticed together--into one mammoth unit by greentractor beams and red pressors.
But we've got to hold them back some way--wonder if they can absorb a tractor field?
The crop inspection helicopter reported Simpson's fields in much better shape than average, so his tractor was obviously working.
Lon drove the tractor the rest of the morning and all afternoon with a very peculiar expression on his face.
But the tractor rolled comfortably as Lon drove it, the individual motors in the separate catawheels drawing power from a mere maze of wires across a forked stick--plus two pieces of sheet iron.
The worst part of it is, though, that the tractor is so heavy it may not hold the road.
When they reached what they decided should be their destination, almost at the end of the road and in a dense bit of wooded section which would obscure them from enemy observers, they brought their tractor to a stop.
As Lieutenant Mackinson and Joe ran to either side of the road, the tractor slid by them at increasing speed.
Reports received this morning indicate that by night the engineers will have put the road through to a selected point where you will have the least difficulty in concealing your tractor and its aerials.
That done, he proceeded to give the details of the wrecking of the tractor and of their escape to the second mountain.
It was the only possible way of saving the tractor from gathering more and more momentum, and, finally beyond all control, leaving the road and hurtling down the steep slope.
Once the engine stalled, making the stability of the whole weight of the heavy tractor depend upon the brakes.
The wireless tractor was chugging along under a heavy strain, but the other truck was coming down the steep grade under the compression of its engine, to accelerate the use of the brakes.
There was no other course than for Frank to reverse, and, with a man on either side of the tractor in the rear, directing every slight turn of the wheel, to go back to that point.
The Ford transverse rear spring was supplemented by two helical springs placed vertically between the Ford and tractor frames.
In addition to ensuring a systematic means of transport for men proceeding to and from the trenches, the Crewe tractor was further requisitioned for taking supplies of ammunition to artillery emplacements in the forward areas.
As it happens I promised Miss Patricia to run ourtractor over that particular field some time this afternoon, as soon as our Camp Fire ceremony closed.
At the instant Miss Patricia was descending from her tractor and was soon standing in the center of her freshly plowed field.
Called the 110, it is a typical suburban tractor with a 7-horsepower engine and forward and reverse gears.
The third internal combustion tractorbuilt by the company founded earlier by Charles Hart and Charles Parr.
The John Deere Model D was the first tractor of the line bearing that name.
The Waterloo Tractor Works, Waterloo, Iowa, made the tractorin 1923.
The tractor measures 42 inches across the rear wheels and 28 inches across the front.
But while the Patrolmen were still in space a plane of force sheared off the entire side of the room, a tractor beam jerked the detached wall away, and the attackers floated in en masse.
Wherefore he clutched in the tractor drive and took off in a straight line toward town.
He leaped to his feet and drew his blaster, but a tractorbeam snatched it from his grasp before he could fire.
Fifteen minutes later my tractor rumbled to a halt for the second time, directly in front of the Wendel plant.
He had strength enough left to tug at the brakes and bring the tractor to a grinding halt before he slumped against me, with a strangled sob that chilled me to the core of my being.
It made me feel secure enough to stand up and descend from the tractor without making a production out of it, as if I was two-thirds convinced I'd be blown apart before I could advance twenty feet.
But actually, despite the uneasiness which we both felt, we crossed from the tractor to the plant without hurrying and with our shoulders held straight.
Then I descended from the tractor and headed for the steel-mesh gates of the spaceport on the run.
I didn't know there was anything wrong until the tractor began to zigzag a little, about three hundred feet from the massive, steel-mesh gates of the spaceport.
We stayed silent until the tractorhad rumbled past eight or ten of the breaks in the Big Grayness.
He'd descended from the tractor lightly because he was that kind of a man--just about the most fragile-looking guy I'd ever seen.
The instant Lynton realized, just from the way I was looking at Joan, that I wanted to be alone with her he said: "I'd better check over the tractor once more.
If you've got your own tractor you'll know what to do if it breaks down.
All at once the tractor was veering again, but far enough to the left to make me feel certain that I wouldn't be flattened to a pancake if I stayed where I was.
The Endicott square had been unpopulated, with just one tractor moving out from the long line of tractors on the far side.
Here a flame thrower-mounted amphibian tractor spews its deadly stream of napalm into a cave.
The tread belts on either side of the tractor are separately driven and by making one belt run faster than the other it is possible to steer the machine.
The tractor belt is driven by spur wheels at each end and the rollers serve merely to distribute the weight of the machine along the belt.
Its close resemblance to the creeping locomotion of a caterpillar has led to the adoption of the trade name “caterpillar” by one of the large tractor manufacturers.
To adapt excavating machines for service in soft ground they are mounted on broad wheels or on track-laying tractor surfaces.
The motor tractor has lightened his work on the farm and has enabled him to conduct farming operations over vast areas.
This casts no aspersion whatever on tractormachines or on monoplanes.
He called me silly and said I was going to live to be eighty, and that a gasoline-tractor couldn't kill me.
And I know, in my secret heart of hearts, that the tractor would have been here if it hadn't been for my piano!
For a moment they were in such darkness that even the beam from the tractor seemed alien.
They came to a sheer mountain which in the beams of the tractor looked like a silver pyramid painted across a jet-black canvas.
Here were real windows of quartz, and he could see more of the moon's surface as the tractor and its jointed cars wheeled about in a great circle and headed off in the direction from whence it had come.
Then the crawling tractor with its cars lumbering along behind it on their endless tracks was below them and playing its single light upward.
Jack Odin saw that it was no more than a huge caterpillar tractor with several cars attached, armored and sheathed with sort of a bellows-type connection at each joint.
He guided the tractor into the lock, waited until pressure and atmosphere rose to normal, and then leaped out of the cab.
Tom fought the wheel as the big tractor lumbered up another rise, and the huge plastic bubble of Sun Lake City came into view far down the valley below.
Perspective of Framing of Open Type of Implement Shed] In view of the fact that the small tractor is becoming an extremely popular source of farm power, special consideration should be given to its shelter.
The tractor is an implement that would be extremely likely to be injured as a result of exposure to weather.
The machine gun soon followed, but its use in tractor machines was impracticable on account of the danger of hitting the airscrew.
On the other hand, the single-seater tractors were potentially the superior fighters, and in order to protect the blades of the airscrew the French were the first to use deflector blades on them in tractor machines.
They attached a tractor with a heavy lorry in tow to our inflammatory tractor and our three guns.
Medola was in command of a Battery of long guns, and had one of these attached to a powerful tractoron the road in front of us.
With the tractorand guns were Winterton, Darrell, and Leary, also the Battery Quartermaster Sergeant and two of our lorries.
Within five minutes Captain Medola came up to me and said that the Colonel had ordered him to drag our tractor and guns.
Once across the Tagliamento, our tractor not only continued to break down every few hundred yards, but also developed the unpleasant habit of catching fire.
We went along at a fine pace for several miles and then our tractor stopped and wouldn't start up again.
Our tractor broke down three times on the bridge itself.
They asked that an attempt should be made to start up our tractor also, but I succeeded in persuading them that this was inexpedient.
About 7 o'clock our first tractor arrived and took away No.
Whereupon there came to our assistance a young man named Rinaldo Rinaldi, a skilled and resourceful mechanic, who was driving a tractor in rear of us.
Our three guns got a new tractor to themselves and I got up beside the driver.
They strolled up the road together to where the tractor was waiting.
Vane nodded to the gas officer and got on board the little tractor which was to take him to the front trenches.
Again the cranes dragged and lifted and the massive tractorscraped along the bottom plate of the overturned pump.
The crane operator on the near bank eased his gears into motion and the six-ton tractor lifted into the air with Alec and Troy aboard.
The tractor was bumping against the wall with more violence and the engineers could feel it tip and sway as the turbulence increased from below.
The bulky, almost square, tractor was rolled up and the rigging crews were swarming over it, clamping suspension cables from the running pulley that would ride the cable across the current.
Alec waited a minute until the tractor quite swinging and then ordered, "Let's go down.
Number One crane operator slammed his release button and the tractor fell with a jarring crash to the floor of the catch basin.
In the thundering bore, the tractor bumped against the wall of the hole.
The tractor snapped up under them and threw both men against the seat.
Alec cut one foot loose from the vertical side of the tractor and slammed it against the pump base and then quickly shifted the other foot and began forcing his way down under the curve of the tube.
Number One crane began paying out cable and the tractor and men slipped beneath the surface of the turbulent waters.
Thirty seconds later the tractor slammed to the ground.
At the same instant, there was a forward motion and the tractor began to sweep toward the downstream wall of the bore.
The tractor had descended blow the level of the jet thrust.
When the tractor had dropped some thirty feet, it was Troy who yelled "Hold it!
The tractor towed a half-track platform on which there were a crane and a very considerable lead-coated bin with a top.
The monoplane was propelled by a single propeller of the tractor type 6 to 7 feet in diameter, placed at the front of the machine.
Thus the propeller drove the machine through the air from the rear instead of pulling it from the front as do the tractor propellers on most of the Bleriot monoplanes.
The propeller is at the front of the machine, and is of the tractor type, pulling it through the air instead of pushing it.
The propeller is set in front of this, and is of the tractor type, drawing the machine through the air behind it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tractor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: automobile; machinery; pusher; tractor; truck
