[AT] Rain at last (Cletrac)

[Ralph Goff]

Thanks Joe, thats what I thought it said . Any ideas on the plough?

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/

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> Ralph,
>
> That crawler is definately a Cletrac (say's so on the radiator).  There is
nothing to scale it against, but I would guess it's a DD.  Someone else who
knows more can fill in the rest.
>
> Joe
>
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> From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
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>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dean VP <deanvp at att.net>
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
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> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:59 AM
> Subject: RE: [AT] Rain at last
>
>
> > I just don't understand how dry land farmers live with that uncertainty
> year
> > after year.  Most of the time it all works out.> I really have a lot of
> admiration and respect for those of you who have
> > lived under those types of stressful situations and not only survived
but
> > have made a good life of it. I congratulate you.
>
> Dean, after 50 years on the farm I still don't know of anything else I
would
> rather be doing even considering today's thin (or worse) profit margins. I
> read recently that the 1970s were the most profitable years for farming in
> recent history. We didn't realize how good we had it then.
> Still, if I had to work the big acres now with the machinery my father
used
> I doubt I'd be farming. Shivering  in the unheated cab of the 970 Case
last
> week picking rocks wearing parka, and full winter regalia I just had to
> wonder how the old timers endured sitting out on an open tractor in the
wind
> and 30 something temps .
> I read the journals and look at the old photos of my parents and
> grandparents life on the farm over the past hundred years. Every day I
walk
> and work on the same ground my grandfathers did and that means a lot to
me.
> Not just a living but a way of life. Thats a tired old cliche but it
> describes my situation.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
> BTW,,, did any of you check out the old crawler tractor pic at my webpage
> yet? Still waiting on a positive i.d. from somebody who knows more about
it
> than me.
>
>
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