[AT] Hottest tractor

[charlie hill]

Ralph it gets a lot colder where you are and a bit hotter where I am.
However I can remember being pretty cold in a tractor seat.  The coldest I 
think I've been on a tractor was actually in the summer.
When it's time to house your tobacco crop the work must go on.  One year it 
rained every day for about 2 weeks during the middle of tobacco season. 
About the only thing worse than sitting in a tractor seat in the pouring 
rain all day long is bending over between those  tobacco rows all day long 
in the same rain storm.

The heat from a muffler and the exhaust gas comming out the top feel mighty 
good when your hands look like bleached prunes and your clothes are soaked 
in tobacco juice (nicotine) laced rain water.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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>> What else comes to mind that is too hot to operate on a upper 90 deg day?
>> Definetly old combines with no air or anything with a cab and broke A/C.
>
> I'd have to say any modern tractor with air conditiioning that isn't 
> working
> is going to be the most overpoweringly hot to operate. At least the old 
> open
> tractors had the advantage of a bit of air and ventilation. Inside the 
> cabs
> of any of my equipment turns into a greenhouse very quickly without a fan 
> or
> ac running.
> I was almost in that situation today even though it was not as hot as
> yesterday. Working a field of summerfallow with the 2090 Case this morning
> and about 10:00 it started to feel warm enough to dial in  a bit of ac.
> Right about then the fan quit running. Running with windows open was not 
> an
> option I would consider as I don't want to get the inside of the cab full 
> of
> dirt. Luckily it turned out to be a loose wire connection at the cab relay
> so I worked in comfort the rest of the day.
> I'd say that cold was more often a concern than hot weather in the "open
> tractor days" that I worked.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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