[AT] Time to 'fess up

[Mike Sloane]

My property includes about 8 acres of "black dirt" or "muck", formerly a 
celery and onion farm. I can cut grass up to a certain point, but then 
it just becomes marsh beyond that, mainly due to the old ditches filling 
up. In the spring this area holds water, and the ground is very, very 
soft. I usually try to cut in the less soggy areas as soon as I can to 
keep it from getting ahead of me, but I usually end up going in too soon 
and getting stuck. This year was so wet that I never even tried - the 
spring rains plus the remnants of Hurricane Ivan filled the marsh right 
up, and it hasn't gone back down yet.

Mike

two4ac at earthlink.net wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> 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
>>

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Mike Sloane
Allamuchy NJ
Email: (mikesloane at verizon.net)
Website: <http://www.geocities.com/mikesloane>
Tractor images: <www.fotki.com/mikesloane>
Work: none - retired

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. 
-Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882)