Now the sound of Buda engines was Re: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing
David Bruce
davidbruce at yadtel.net
Sun Sep 3 11:26:21 PDT 2006
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.
>
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