[AT] Just testing

[Gene Dotson]

    Ralph;
    I sent the message at 10:45am and received it at 10:17pm, so
the 12 hour time is still there. It is so frustrating when an
item comes throught that that I can help with and by the time it
finally reaches the list, after several other replies, it now
sounds like a "me too" reply.

    I spent a lot of hours during my high school years driving a
Cockshutt 50 diesel and a CO-OP E-4. Worked on my buddies dad's
farm during these years. The "50" was a big tractor in the late
50's.

    We have warmed up here and the snow is melting. Should be
above freezing and periods of rain for the next 10 days. Should
melt all the snow and probably flood the low ground. The
tractors getting the workout here this week was the Case 222
with the front mounted blower and the case 644 with the front
loader. The 320 dozer was used to push back the snow piles when
they got too big to manage with the smaller tractors.

                    Gene


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Just testing


: Gene
: Not sure when you sent this message out but it hit my mailbox
at 9:00 in the
: evening of the 29th.
: We are preparing for a major winter storm according to the
forecasts for
: tomorrow. The east wind is getting up already. Glad I got the
cattle feed
: put through the hammer mill today as it was nice and sunny.
Gave the old
: Cockshutt 50 its first real exercise in over two years. It was
a little
: rough running til I turned the load needle on the carburetor
and loosened up
: whatever crud had got in there. Lots of breather smoke and
vapour plus an
: alarming amount of front seal leakage from the crankshaft. But
it ran good
: and finished the job for me so it was another good tractoring
day.
:
: Ralph in Sask.
: http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
: