[AT] saga/rope/F-20

[Greg Hass]

It's amazing to me how well some things were thought out on much of the old 
equipment. Back when we used our IH Super C for much of our work, a couple 
of things used a rope, our grain drill being the main one. This tractor had 
a special place behind the seat, factory equiped, to tie the rope. Being 
young at the time, I wasn't up on things, but I always thought that bracket 
with a hole in it was awfully thin and a little sharp. In later years, I 
realized that the bracket was spring steel, and that it was thin and sort 
of sharp so that if the implement unhooked, the rope would be cut before 
the operator was thrown off the seat. We generally used a wire bent into a 
hook to hook to the bracket; not to save the rope but because it was easier 
to hook up than threading the rope through the hole and tying a knot in it.
Greg Hass