[AT] Gas Tank sending unit needed

[Dean VP]

Ron:

Interesting you mention the JD experimental farm activities. When I was at
Iowa State in Ames, IA and in the AF ROTC program I used to fly (Instructor
with me in a T6) over much of the Iowa farm land.  Saw all kinds of things
that were hidden from the roads. Sometimes we flew to NW IA and buzzed my
Dad in the field, sometimes I was asked to see how close a circle I could
cut around the big radio antenna in Ames, (WOW?) but in other occasions we
spent quite a bit of time looking for unusual activities on the local farm
landscape. 

I do remember how interesting the landings were in the hot weather,
updrafts/downdrafts were common over the fields that were freshly plowed vs
those fully green. I know that I had to replace my underwear a few times
after a few of my inexperienced landings. The landing gears in those
training planes must have been over designed. I think I pushed the design
limits a few times. Lt Caruthers was my instructor's name. Why I remember
that guys name is odd. It's over 45 years ago already. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
storeroom door 


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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Ronald L. Cook
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 11:11 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Gas Tank sending unit needed

Heck, I gotcha both beat!  I still use the method my grand dad 
used.......The handle of the hammer that is in the tractor toolbox.<G>

About 10 years ago while spraying, I kept ferrying loads over a field 
with a large John Deere 4 wheel drive tractor pulling a chisel plow or 
field cultivator tilling a harvested sweetcorn field.  This particular 
field was off the road so as to not be observed.  There were a couple 
John Deere company vehicles, a pickup and a van in attendance.  The 
tractor had a GPS antenna on the cab roof.  It seemed to me they were 
not getting much field work done with such a large piece of equipment. 
I mentioned it to my field man and he told me to fly down next to the 
tractor and have a look.  No operator in the tractor at all!!!!!


Ron Cook
Salix, IA
Cecil E Monson wrote:
>> I'm even more crude but maybe slightly more resourceful!    I use an old
>> yard stick. That tells me how many inches of fuel are in the tank 
>> directly.
>> I only put notches in my gun stocks!  
>> Dean A. Van Peursem
>> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> 
> 
>     I'm even "cruder" than Dean. I took a 2 foot piece of 1/2" X 1"
> stock, drew lines every inch with a carpenter's pencil and drilled a hole
> near one end so I could hang it by the shop door. It has never failed me.
> 
>     BTW, I got a new calendar from the JD dealer this week and it
> features a remote control tractor on the cover. Cabless with no place
> for an operator, it must be really something. I was reading in another
> article where this farmer takes a 9000 series JD tractor around the field
> one time and then hits the auto pilot button and from then on just sits
> there and reads or watches TV or something while the tractor takes care
> of the rest. In reality I suppose he spends his day on his cell phone
> making sure the rest of the "farm" is going OK.
> 
> Cecil

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