[AT] Gas Tank sending unit needed

[Ronald L. Cook]

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