[AT] Selling things and hurricanes

[Brett Phillips]

Cecil:

Do you still have the potato diggers available?  If so, I may be interested
if we can work out a time for me to pick them up.  I'm not sure if you
remember me, since I've been mostly a lurker on the list for the past 4-5
years.  My uncle lives in Stormville, NY, which is somewhat close to you.  I
may be able to combine a visit with the trip to pick up the diggers if
they're still available.  They sound like just the thing to use with my
Allis C.  You may remember my posts about "an Allis Chalmers C on the cheap"
from some time ago.  Unfortunately, it is no longer "on the cheap" :-).

Regards,
Brett Phillips
Strasburg, Va
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecil Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 9:16 AM
Subject: [AT] Selling things and hurricanes


> I was thinking while having my first cup of coffee this morning
> that the weather here has been unusually great for June. Absolutely
> gorgeous. I played with my tractors yesterday - did some mowing with the
> AC D-14 and sickle bar mower. Then got the D-12 out and hooked up to the
> Kubota tractor rototiller and went over the garden to keep the weeds
> down. We didn't plant anything this year because of my medical condition
> but the weeds came up just the same.
>
> Then as if to jog my memory to remind me things were not always
> so great in June, I noticed on the Weather Channel that Hurricane Agnes
> came ashore on this date in 1972. My wife and the three kids were all
> on vacation in Europe and I was home with the dog. Three days later this
> hurricane made it to New York State and flooded the whole area upstate.
> I severed a disc in my back while helping sandbag along Seneca Lake
> south of Geneva. I was standing in two feet of water when a fireman on
> a truck load of sand tossed me a bag of sand. I was forced to catch it
> as it would have splashed water on everyone around me and caught it just
> the wrong way. I made it thru the summer but in September had to have an
> operation to fix it. Luckily with the disc removed my back healed just
> fine and I have had no trouble since then.
>
> I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I had some things to sell
> before we moved to the new home site. It is hard to believe but as a
> result of my comments, all those things are gone or spoken for. That
> reminds me that I have one more thing that has to go. It is a pair of
> IHC PTO operated one row potato diggers. One of these works just fine
> and the other one is for parts. There are even more bed parts too that
> go with them. I dug my potatoes with the one for a number of years and
> it works very well. Even the little JD 40 tractor handles it with ease.
> If you are not familiar with potato diggers, they scoop up plant and all
> including the potatoes underneath, shake the dirt off as they cross
> the bed of steel rods. The dirt falls thru on to the  ground and the
> potatoes and vines are dropped off the back in a windrow on top of
> the ground. If you use a bush hog or rotary mower like the Woods I use,
> you can mow the vines off and not have to monkey with them when picking
> up the potatoes. It sure is a lot easier picking the potatoes up off
> the ground than trying to dig them by hand. At $300 for both of these
> machines plus the parts, I don't see how anyone could ever go wrong.
> Let me know if you are interested. Mountainville, New York is not
> exactly centrally located to anything but at least there are decent
> roads in the area.
>
> Cecil
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