[AT] Vintage tractor pulling advice

[Larry D. Goss]

I think there probably are a bunch of counties in Indiana that still
can't make that claim, Farmer.  We had a really harsh winter back in the
late 70's and the following spring almost all the roads in Posey county
reverted to gravel.  The road I'm living on was still gravel well into
the 80's.  So here it is 20 years later and today they're repaving the
road I live on.  I'm "locked in" until the new surface has a chance to
set for a few hours.

Larry 

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Robinson
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Vintage tractor pulling advice

On 21 Jul 2005 at 18:03, Roger Welsch wrote:

> I have one on my shop wall...TRACTORS WITH LUGS PROHIBITED.  Every
road used
> to have one when I was a kid.  Now it seems like every tractor is
driven by
> one kind of lug or another.




	When I was a kid only a couple of roads in the neighborhood had
them. They were the only 
couple of paved roads around here. The rest of the roads were gravel or
dirt. The road 
past my house was gravel with 3 wheel tracks and two strips of grass.
The road that goes 
west from my barn lot was two wheel tracks and almost all grass. We kept
it pretty well 
stirred after we started using the crawlers. The county did mow the
sides a tiny bit 
about twice a summer with a Farmall CUB and a sickle bar mower. Mostly
the road sides in 
much of the county were a wall of brush.
	When they switched from pit gravel to crushed limestone for the
roads (a huge 
improvement) many of the fields showed their PH problems when the dust
from the road 
settled on the first few rows of corn and those rows grew a lot bigger
and darker. We had 
our road "oiled" yearly in front of the house. This county announced in
the 1960's that 
all through roads in the county had finally been paved. I believe that
they claimed to be 
the first of the 92 counties to do so.

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish
Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America
100 
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net

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