[AT] Good tractor day

[charlie hill]

I spent the afternoon mounting that octupus of a backhoe to  my tractor.  I 
actually caught  myself about to wish it were cooler but I caught myself 
just in time.  It's 65 here now at 5 pm so I guess we got as warm or warmer 
than you did David.  It was a nice day.

I am going to need to modify the hitch to get the backhoe attachment to work 
on my tractor and trying to rig a temporary hookup so I could test the unit 
and do the measurements to make the modifications was a bit of a challenge 
working by myself.  Once I got enough of it hooked to the tractor to make 
the hydraulics work it got a lot easier!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: [AT] Good tractor day


> Some time ago, I mentioned I was getting a Ford Dearborn plow ready for 
> use.  Well, I finally got it ready to try out and the weather was 
> cooperating this morning so I hooked it up to my Massey-Ferguson 35 and 
> off I went to plow my girlfriend's garden.  I eyeballed the settings and 
> off I went.  For an eyeball adjustment it worked very well.  Of course, 
> this garden was really too small to do any adjusting, it was barely enough 
> to scour the shares, shins and moldboards but I had fun anyway. Also, 
> earlier I got my John Deere 2010 out and used the front end loader as a 
> carry-all.  It's amazing what uses you can find for a loader.
> Now, after I eat lunch, I'm planning on planting some onions in my garden 
> (I tilled it with my Troy-bilt tiller on Saturday).  My garden is way too 
> small to do any tractor work but the tiller seems to work just fine.  Nice 
> weather today (70 F at the moment). A cold front is coming, predictions 
> are for thunderstorms tonight and maybe some snow to go along with it.
> Well, Spring is here for today at least.
>
> David
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