[AT] History Exam

[charlie hill]

We plowed in the fall too sometimes.  It just depended on what was in the 
field and if we planned to plant a winter cover crop.  If there weren't any 
particular weed problems and we didn't plan a cover crop we would cut over 
the crop land with a disc harrow and leave the crop residue to prevent 
erosion from the winter and early spring winds.

That D10 series II of your Grandpa's had the same engine and as much or more 
HP than the D-14.  It just didn't have the weight.
The early D10's and some of the early D14's had the 138 CI engine.   By the 
end they both had the 149 CI version.  The rpm was higher on the early 14's 
than it was on the early 10's but that changed too.  Our D10 never suffered 
from too  little power it just didn't have enough speed, gear ranges and 
weight.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam


>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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