[AT] History Exam

Wed Jun 13 12:00:31 PDT 2007

Thanks Paul.  That family had  3 sons (well 4 but one of them was grown and 
gone by the time the youngest was old enough to work).
Most of us are aware of how many....errrr.... how few acres an A and a Super 
A and with 2 bottom 14" plows can break in a day.  They had about 100 acres 
to break every spring.  When they started they ran around the clock, taking 
shifts.  The boys had to miss a few days of school.  About the only thing 
that worked right on the worn out old A was the headlights.

My daddy and  I did much the same thing on our 40 acre place plus a few 
acres we tended here and there.  We didn't try to run at night and I didn't 
miss school but he would ride the Allis D-10 all day while I was at school 
and I would ride it in the afternoons after school and on weekends.  On many 
a saturday I went into  the field by the light of dawn.  At 9 am or so daddy 
would  bring me a Pepsi and a pack of square nabs or maybe a honey bun.  At 
noon he'd bring me another Pepsi, 2 cheeseburgers from the diner and 2 5 gal 
cans of gasoline for the D-10.  He'd pour those in while  I stuffed down the 
cheeseburgers and swallowed the Pepsi.  Then there was a mid afternoon snack 
and when it got to dark to see I'd head to the house with that beautiful 
blue flame glowing about a foot above the muffler on that AC Power Crater 
Engine.

12 mph seems like 100 when it's nearly dark and you've been riding at 3.5 
mph for 12 or 14 hours.

Charlie

Charlie
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> Hahahaha, I love it .. I think living in the south for a few years helps,
> but I love it
>
> Paul Waugh
>
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
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> 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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>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve W.
>> Near Cooperstown, New York
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