[AT] Horsedrawn grader on eBay

[Greg Hass]

Funny how different areas have different names for different equipment. In 
our area years ago a maintainer was a machine with 4 blades about 8 or 10 
inches high and 8 feet wide. The blades were all at different angles and 
moved the dirt back and forth. It was about 16 feet long and had four 
wheels and was controled by one hydraulic cylinder. It was pulled by the 
strangest tractor I had ever seen. This was over 40 years ago. I have since 
learned, from memory and from old tractor shows that the tractor was one of 
the old Minnie-Mo's that had a cab and looked half tractor and half car. I 
saw on a TV show that these tractors were actually designed to work the 
fields by day and take the wife to town by night. If memory serves me right 
I think the show said these tractors had a road speed of 35 MPH.  P.S. 
Several years ago my cousin bought one of these old maintainers at a road 
commission auction. He still uses it to grade the lanes around the farm.
Greg Hass
Michigan