[AT] Vintage tractor pulling advice

[Indiana Robinson]

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