[AT] ford 4000 diesel - Making postr holes...

[Indiana Robinson]

	It is always fun to hook into an old tire or piece of junk buried in the ground with the 
post hole auger and watch it quickly screw itself into the ground...   :-)   Makes you 
wish for a reverse on the PTO.
	These days I just cut post holes. I find a clean section of air with no defects and cut 
square post holes out of that with the chainsaw. I then just take them to where I need 
them and drive them into the ground.    ;-)

	On a serious note... there have been a number of injuries from guys "piling on" to add 
down pressure to the auger. I have a picture around here that I saved from a magazine of 
a guy standing next to a working post hole auger while talking to a reporter. The guy's 
Tee shirt got into the PTO shaft and it was ripped from his body (he was very lucky) and 
he was standing there with his shirt wrapped around the shaft and he was still completely 
unaware that it had happened. The photographer was shooting rapid fire, click, click 
click... and had a whole series of shots of the event.
	Old tractors may be a laid back hobby but accidents can happen very quickly... One of 
the guys at the museum show was a bit sheepish after he drove up on a stack of lawn 
chairs that were in front of his right rear wheel when he fired up. It was a very nice 
looking IHC 450 wheatland and it was not damaged but I'm not sure how well the lawn 
chairs fared.   :-)    I think his ego may have been dinged too.   :-)

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100 
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net