Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing

[charlie hill]

That could well be Al.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:32 AM
Subject: RE: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing


> Charlie, I did some google-ing for Silent Flame last night, I wonder if
> Long didn't buy them out later on?
>
> Al
>
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:07 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing
>
> Yes Al I think that was one brand.  Silent Flame was best known for
> making
> tobacco barn burners.  There were other manufacturers of harvesters but
> I
> can't tell you the names now.  Long probably did make one.  Most of
> their
> business was centered around tobacco farmers.
>
> We always pulled (croped, broke, primed or picked) tobacco on our feet.
> Seems like the hard way but once you get out of the bottom leaves it
> really
> isn't.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 6:27 PM
> Subject: RE: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing
>
>
>> Charlie, that would be the Silent Flame harvester, right?  I vaguely
>> remember one of them still running in our community in the late 70's
>> when I was very small.  Didn't Long make something similar in later
>> years?
>>
>> When I was in high school and we would go to Raleigh for various FFA
>> events, there was a Silent Flame sitting outside of Goldsboro on Hwy.
>> 70.  I think it was beside an antique store or something.  As I
> recall,
>> the thing looked like it was ready to go to the field.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> PS. Charlie, don't forget Farmer's Day in Richlands this week!  If you
>> know of any tractor owners, tell them to bring em on.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie
> hill
>> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:49 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing
>>
>> Hi David,  we had some like that here too.  I almost believe those
> were
>> manufactured or at least started out that way and were copied.  We
>> started
>> seeing them about the time we started seeing the first "harvesters"
> not
>> the
>> new, automatic mechanical harvesters we have now but the old ones that
>> several people rode on that had the big chain drive front wheel and
>> usually
>> a Wisconsin engine pulling it.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing
>>
>>
>>> The version here was two wheeled, on a metal trailer chassis with a
>> wooden
>>> deck angled from the sides into the middle of the "trailer".  The
>> front
>>> and back were both made of wood and about 4 feet above the deck.
> They
>>
>>> were narrow enough to fit in the field in a "blank balk" (one row was
>>> skipped during plant setting to make the blank).  Those that ran on
>> the
>>> county roads often also had a trap as a cover so the leaves could be
>> tied
>>> down to prevent loose leaves flying.
>>> Mechanical harvesters are now moving in and the design of the
> "tobacco
>>
>>> trailers" is changing again.
>>>
>>> David
>>> NW NC
>>>
>>> charlie hill wrote:
>>>> Al,  the first tobacco trucks I remember were 4 wheeled with a front
>> axle
>>>> that pivoted under the front of the "truck". (For those following
>> along
>>>> Al grew up about maybe 60 miles from where I did and I'm sure he's
>> seen
>>>> these same carts)  The whole rig was made usually out of oak or
> maybe
>>
>>>> cypress.  If they were made of pine it was probably heart pine.
> Even
>> the
>>>> wheels were wooden with a metal rim.  They were only about maybe
> 10"
>> to
>>>> 1 foot diameter and about 2 1/2 or 3 inches thick. The axle frames
>> were
>>>> wooden with a piece of iron rod about 3/4 diameter fastened to the
>> bottom
>>>> and extending through the wheel center with a big washer and a nail
>> or
>>>> something holding the wheel on.
>>>>
>>>> The deck of the truck or cart  (depending on where you live), was a
>> flat
>>>> wood deck about 30" wide and just above the small wheels.  It had a
>> hole
>>>> drilled in each corner and one half way down each side. A post,
>> usually
>>>> made of white  oak, was driven in the holes.  The top of the post
> had
>> a
>>>> nail driven in it with the head cut off.  A burlap curtain hung from
>> the
>>>> nails and encircled the truck to hold the carefully laid tobacco
>> leaves
>>>> in place. These were made to be pulled by mules.
>>>>
>>>> Later on we went to a "truck" that was about 3 feet wide and had one
>> old
>>>> car axle under the middle and a tongue to hitch it to the tractor.
>> They
>>>> had a bulkhead at each end and a burlap curtain attached to a 1x4
>> that
>>>> ran between the bulkheads at the top.  They could be taken loose and
>>>> rolled down out of the way when the load of tobacco got to the barn.
>>>> Most of these were made of pine around home.  They weren't intended
>> to
>>>> last as long as the old 4 wheel type.
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>>
>>>>
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