[AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads

[Larry D. Goss]

Yep.  I've held on to an auxiliary cylinder in hopes that I would find
the time to add it to a front or rear blade to get better adjustment out
of it, but so far I haven't done it.  Something else always comes along
and seems to have a higher priority.

Larry

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Larry it isn't practical for most of us, but you can buy three point
blades
that can be hydraulically controlled about any way you like.



 http://makeashorterlink.com/?P23E43A8C



Take a look if you like. scroll all the way down.



H. L. 





 

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From: Larry D. Goss

Date: 01/27/06 14:10:51

To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'

Subject: RE: [AT] OT: Flashback - Early Farmers Building County Roads

 

And of course the problem with the design of the current 3-point

attachments is that you can't adjust the cut on them "on the fly".

That's why people have trouble getting them to work right while moving

forward.

 

Larry

 

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Ronald L.

Cook

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Larry,

         You have described the whole thing exactly as I remember it.  I

 

was too young to run the horse drawn slip, but I watched.  Not an easy

operation.  My Granddad replaced his with a Dearborn or maybe Ferguson

slip

that went on his 9N.  By the 50's, everyone but my Dad seemed to have a

Tumble Bug.  You can still find a Tumble Bug occasionally on a farm

sale,

but not often.  All the Sears equipment is fast becoming very scarce.

 

Ron Cook

Salix, IA

>The first image at the site Walt mentions shows an item similar to what

>I thought was originally asked about on this thread.  That's only the

>second one I remember seeing that had a double tree on it though.  What

>I remember seeing in use back in the 40's was narrower, had two handles

>(for one man operation) and was set up for a single horse or mule.  My

>grandfather used one of the non-patented slip scoops to excavate the

>basement under the farmhouse in Colorado in 1905 with a mule.  They

were

>dangerous because you really needed three hands to operate one.  You

>adjusted the tilt with both hands on the handles.  That meant that you

>had to buckle the reins together and sling them over one shoulder or

>around your neck.  That was OK as long as the harness didn't break.  We

>borrowed George Gilleff's slip scoop and one of his Belgians to do some

>leveling prior to adding to the barn.  Dad made my brothers and me work

>as a team with one on the handles and another on the reins because if

>something happened to the hitch or the harness you could end up dead

>real quick.

>

>I drive by TSC and see that they have recent incarnations of that tool

>for sale that are set up for three-point operation.

>

>The rotary type that Sears used to sell was always a tractor-drawn

piece

>of equipment and I think its actual name was Tumble Bug.

>

>JM2CW

>

>Larry

 

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