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Clarkson decides to leave portions of his farm for nature, a process called wilding. He uses an excavator to dig a pond and form a wetland area. He builds a dam on a nearby stream for water for the pond and adds 250 brown trout. He installs bird boxes for owls. He obtains four beehives for honey for the farm shop and to pollinate his crops.
Pond was contacted in 1948 by Ford who told Pond that the Pond Tractor company was competing with Ford's own tractor line and that he would no longer be able to purchase Ford components for his tractors. As a result, Pond developed his own line of transmissions and rear axles for his tractors. In 1949, Pond renamed his company to the Speedex ...
In 1954, Pond introduced his first 4-wheel lawn tractor, an event which altered substantially the lawn care manufacturing business. By 1957, his Wheel Horse Products company recorded sales over $1 million (US$10,848,341 in 2023 dollars [ 2 ] ) for the first time.
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Pond's son Cecil Elwood Pond continued to develop and market the company's products. The framework was typically simple angle or channel iron and various surplus motorcycle and automotive parts were used. In 1947, a four-wheel tractor, the "Ride-Away" model was introduced for garden use.
A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with Hindu devotees overturned and fell into a pond in northern India on Saturday, killing at least 23 people, including eight children, officials said.
Dwight Ware Watson (September 28, 1952 - December 7, 2024), dubbed the "Tractor Man" in the media, is a tobacco farmer from Whitakers, North Carolina, who, in March 2003, brought much of Washington, D.C. to a standstill for two days when he drove a tractor into the pond in the Constitution Gardens area of the National Mall and claimed to have explosives.
Gary Ingram spent 7 years in Plains, Georgia, supervising the National Park Service site devoted to Jimmy Carter's life. He says it changed his life.