Name/Title
Tractor - Avery, Model 5-10, Year 1920 - 1922Entry/Object ID
1972.021.1Description
Rated at 5-10 HP, the little 5-10 was just 50 inches wide, 54 inches high, 135 inches long and weighed 2,600 pounds.
In the 1919 catalog, Avery pointed out that, “Not long ago it was thought necessary to have a bonanza farm of 1,000 acres with no fences in the way to operate a tractor successfully. To farm 10 acres with a tractor was unheard of. But today the little Avery 5-10 H.P. Tractor is being used to do all the work on thousands of small farms and the lighter work on large farms. This tractor is specially designed for small farms, 50 acres or less; also for gardening, fruit growing, and for doing the lighter field, belt and hauling work on large farms.”
According to an article in the September 19, 1919, issue of Tractor World magazine, the 5-10 was equal to a three-horse team and would pull two 12-inch bottoms in stubble, or one 16-inch in heavy soil; an 8-foot disc or 3-section spike-tooth harrow; a grain drill, manure spreader, potato or corn planter, or a loaded farm wagon.
It could, if equipped with the optional belt pulley, drive a small ensilage cutter, corn sheller, baler, feed grinder, fanning mill, churn, cream separator, milking machine, wood saw, grindstone, washing machine or pump.
It could pull an orchard sprayer or a two-row cultivator, although there wasn’t a lot of ground clearance in so low a tractor, and, “in fact, its utility is limited largely by the ingenuity of its owner.”
