[AT] Time to 'fess up

[Dean VP]

One of my first stupid tractor tricks that I can recall (I'm sure there were
many) was being sent to plow a filed by myself for the first time. I had to
be like 11 years old or something, it was during the Korean war. I had done
a lot of plowing by this time but my Dad had always done the finishing of
the dead furrow. Well this was my first time to do that.

I was plowing oats stubble ground with some remaining oats straw on the
field. I got to the last round and both rear tractor tires were now in their
respective furrows. We plowed pretty deep and the straw residue started
building up under the drawbar frame of the tractor. It wasn't long and all
of a sudden both tires were spinning and I wasn't going anywhere. I had high
centered the tractor. 

I had failed to observe a trick my Dad used and that was to reduce the
furrow depth as he got close to the last round. There I was, stuck and a
mile and 1/2 from home and no one around to pull me free. I had to walk home
and get Dad to pull me through the last round. Never forgot that lesson! 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

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


www.deerelegacy.com

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Mike,
Maybe you should plant a ceder in that hole. lol

David D. Gibson
1941 Allis Chalmers B
1942 Allis Chalmers C
1947 Allis Chalmers C
1948 Allis Chalmers C
1972 Allis Chalmers Homesteader
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From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Time to 'fess up


> You guys have some great stories to relate. I guess I have been lucky 
> over the years. My only tractor screw-ups involve getting the same 
> Farmall Cub with belly mower stuck in almost the same the same place 
> every spring - it always looks like it safe to drive through, but then I 
> realize that I am no longer moving forward and the right rear tire is 
> spinning and the tractor has  taken on a definite list to starboard. 
> Back when I only had one tractor, that was a BIG problem for me, but I 
> now have more than one, so a long chain will usually get me out in the 
> few minutes it takes to walk back to the barn, round up another machine 
> and chain, and drive back to the site. But no matter how little time it 
> takes, my wife always happens to notice my problem and always has the 
> same comments concerning my intelligence (which I won't repeat in a 
> family oriented forum like this).
> 
> Mike
> 
> Cecil E Monson wrote:
> 
> >     I have an idea we have all screwed up at least once in our
> > lifetimes. Some things are better forgotten but some become comical
> > as time goes on. I had an incident as a 14 or 15 year old kid that
> > I tried for years to live down.
> > 
> 
> > Cecil
> 
> -- 
> Mike Sloane
> Allamuchy NJ
> Email: (mikesloane at verizon.net)
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> Work: none - retired
> 
> Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. 
> -Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882)
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