[AT] Different color tractors

[Indiana Robinson]

	I love all colors of tractors and have John Deere (2), IHC 
(6), MF (1), MM (1), AC (2) and Son Scott has an Oliver and 
an AC. Most of them even run.   :-)    I have in the past 
owned and (stupidly) sold Ford, Oliver, Ferguson, Coop, JD 
and AC. With all that variety on the farm I feel entitled 
to pick on any color...  ;-)
	I have a terrible shortage of Case... I would like to cure 
that but it is not to be this year. Maybe next year...
	Now that my life has started up again, once I get all 
other current shop projects done this early winter I want 
to get at least 2 more of mine running and hope to get two 
more painted. The ones painted will probably not be the 
same two I get running. We also want to get Scotts AC 190-
XT running by spring. I'm clearing a hole to move it from 
the east barn into the shop.

	Can you imagine anything handier than an AC-WC fitted with 
a hand clutch...   ;-)   Then an implement behind it with a 
couple of levers to work...
	Of course you green guys shouldn't smirk. I watched a 
friend using a John Deere without live hydraulics or power 
steering using a loader in tight quarters.   :-)   I could 
hardly keep track of his limbs as he worked brakes with 
both feet and constantly used the clutch, steering wheel, 
hydraulic lever and bucket trip all at once and having to 
shift to neutral and put the clutch back in to raise the 
loader each time...   :-)    It was all just a blur.   :-)
	Ah, the good old days.


-- 
"farmer"
Hewick Midwest

The master in the art of living makes little distinction 
between his 
work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and 
his body, 
his information and his recreation, his love and his 
religion. He 
hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision 
of 
excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide 
whether he 
is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. 
 ~ James A. Michener, attributed

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net