[AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long

[charlie hill]

Somehow or another I always find out about tractor pulls the week after they 
are over and on the rare occasion I do know when one will be there is a 
wedding, funeral or some other occasion that I'm obligated to attend.

Are you talking about White Oak in Wilson County?  The last time I was there 
it was to play football my Junior year in high school.  The town dump was on 
fire and the smoke and stench of smoldering trash and garbage settled onto 
the field.  I can still recall the smell 40 years later.  To top that off it 
was terribly cold that night, there was a plumbing problem in the visiting 
boys dressing room and the right knee of my bants including the knee pad got 
soaked.  The coach didn't play me much that night and my knee pad froze.

I can't imagine anything in White Oak that wouldn't have a problem some way 
or another.  LOL.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long


> Charlie, you need to go to the tractor pull at White Oak sometime. That
> track is made of sand and is a bear. Once a couple guys get to spining 
> they
> create a hole that is tough to get thru. They did some plowing right 
> beside
> the track and stuck a tractor one time. Somebody also hitched up a Willy's
> Jeep and it did rather well.
>
> I'll stick to my red clay.
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:47 PM
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>
>>>
>> Most of our farm is sandy and some of it is extremely sandy.  Back in the
>> day, I'd be plowing with the D-10 and hit a bad sandy spot.  The plow
>> would
>> try to sink, the traction booster would kick in  but it was so sandy that
>> the tractor would begin to spin it's wheels.  Then it would do something
>> I've never read about in the manuals.  I don't know if it was supposed to
>> do
>> it or not but the tractor would spin one wheel and stop the other and
>> alternate back and forth very quickly.  It was as if you were stomping 
>> the
>> brake pedals.  It would walk it's way right out of the soft stuff.  It 
>> was
>> kind of hard to stay in the seat!
>>
>> Charlie
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