[AT] History Exam

Sat Jun 16 08:33:22 PDT 2007

A few years ago Cecil Monson was keeping some of my memories that were 
posted to this list (along with those of many others here).  I kept a lot of 
his too.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RonMyers at wildblue.net>
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> 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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>> From: <RonMyers at wildblue.net>
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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
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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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