[AT] Different color tractors

[Larry D. Goss]

LOL!  The story about the JD brought back memories, Farmer.  I watched
my Uncle Jim running the same vintage tractor (unstyled JD A) around the
corral while loading the manure spreader with a FEL and trip bucket.
The loader just had one cylinder mounted ahead of the tricycle wheels
and a cable ran over a pulley on the top end of it to lift the bucket.
He never let anyone else run it except him because of the complexity of
controls and the fact that it was inherently unstable when the bucket
was more than a couple feet off the ground.  I used to watch him run it
from the relative safety of the top of the silo!

Larry

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	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