[AT] History Exam

[RonMyers at wildblue.net]

thanks Charlie and you have already started yout book about the farm just
keep adding more stories to what you already have,
I grew up on a 160 acre farm in N. Cal and I should do the same thing. I
once had quite a bit written down but lost it when my old computer when
belly up.
Ron

> 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
>
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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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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