Now the sound of Buda engines was Re: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing

[David Bruce]

Nothing like the sound of a Buda engine when plowing.  Never drove a 
D-10 (my maternal grandfather had one but I never drove it) but I spent 
many an hour plowing with the D-14 and 3 14's after dark.  Love that 
engine sound <g>.
David
NW NC

charlie hill wrote:
> That's right David, those 4 wheeled "truck" I described earlier in the 
> thread were sized to go down between 2 rows of tobacco behind a mule.  
> The "blank balk" or "5th middle" as we called it came along with 
> tractors.   My first tractor job was also "trucking" tobacco with a B 
> Allis at age 5.  Then I graduated to a D10 when Daddy bought it in  
> '59.  By then I was 9 and was soon spending the whole day, on 
> saturdays or when there was no school, in the seat of the D10 plowing 
> or discing.
>