[AT] History Exam

[David Bruce]

I remember riding the D-14 plowing in the dark in late fall.  Nothing in 
the world like the sound of that Power Crater.  We always did the 
plowing in the fall so the red clay would have the winter to "mellow".  
With the D-14 we could pull a 3  bottom 14"plow.  My maternal grandpa 
had a D-10 series II which he used to pull a 2 bottom 16" plow.  His 
soil was really red and rocky.
At that time my dad was farming my grandpa's farm in my  "spare time" so 
I got a lot of chances to hay the cows and plow the fields.  I probably 
would have turned to farming except it was obvious than without a lot 
more land than we had it was futile.
David
NW NC

charlie hill wrote:
> 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
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