[AT] History Exam

[charlie hill]

Sure Ron,  go ahead.  I've often thought I should write down all my memories 
from growing up on a coastal NC tobacco farm but I'll probably never get it 
done.  I was over at the farm this morning and the yellow flies were about 
to eat me alive but that's a story for another day.

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RonMyers at wildblue.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:53 AM
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> Charlie that's a great story, can have permission to put it on the YT
> tractor forum I think those guys would love it too.
> I will be sure to give all the credit.
> Ron
>
>
>> When I was a boy it took 2 or 3 days per week to harvest our tobacco 
>> crop.
>> So we traded labor with other small farmers.  We'd help them and they'd
>> help
>> us.  One farmer we worked with was a share cropper.  He tended about 6
>> acres
>> of tobacco and roughly 100 acres total with a worn out Farmall Super A 
>> and
>> a
>> completely worn out Farmall A.  The motor was so bad in the A that we had
>> to
>> take turns turning the crank to start it.  A man or a strong boy could
>> spin
>> the crank round and round like cranking a corn sheller.  It would take
>> long
>> enough to get heat in the motor that it would wear the first guy out, 
>> then
>> the second and sometimes the third.
>>
>> Sometimes it wouldn't crank start at all and we had to hook the Super A 
>> to
>> it and pull it round and round the tobacco barns with the Super A in high
>> gear.  Sooner or later it would crank.  Then we let it run all day.  It
>> would sit and run idle and blow a continuous stream of white smoke rings
>> out
>> the straight exhaust pipe.  Each ring would pass through the previous one
>> if
>> the wind wasn't blowing.  Sometimes you could see as many as 4 or 5 rings
>> at
>> once.
>>
>> The  farmer that owned it told us not to check the oil in it.  He said,
>> "if
>> it stops smokin pour one quart of oil in it".   Ah.  The good ole days.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
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>> From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ralph Goff wrote:
>>>> Ben Staats wrote:
>>>>> It is a piece of cake, I have a 1918 T with the crank start.
>>>>> But I havent tried to crank the 47 Farmall M
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben Staats
>>>>>
>>>> My Dad used to crank start the Cockshutt 50 back in the days when he
>>>> didn't own a battery charger and the old car battery got a little weak.
>>>> And before that his John Deere D was quite often started by turning the
>>>> big flywheel.
>>>> I used to occasionally be able to crank start the DC4 Case but
>>>> sometimes
>>>> nothing would work on that one.
>>>> Nowadays I have electric start on a riding mower. We've come a long
>>>> way.
>>>>
>>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Crank start... Lets see Farmall F20 and F30, One Case LA and two
>>> different Fordsons and every now and then the Super M when the battery
>>> doesn't want to cooperate.
>>>
>>>
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>>> Steve W.
>>> Near Cooperstown, New York
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