One reason that they stayed popular with the farmers over the years is how low they set which is because of the wide front end-this allowed them to get into a lot of barn stalls with a loader to clean out the manura?-----also reason so many still have loaders on them-there was an accessory / conversion for a hydraulic pump mounted on the front driven off the crankshaft that created LIVE hydraulis-this is another reason they became so popular with the loaders-you could pick up the shit without having to take it out of gear and let the clutch out-


And young kids could drive them standing up and be able to step on clutch and brakes ----------small kids couldn't reach pedals on the regular tractors and or be strong enough to push them down------------