[AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long

[Gene Dotson]

    I just wonder how many people come in on a subject like this and wonder 
what the town dump burning and not playing football has to do with the 
header about plowing in Ohio.

                    Gene



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From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:10 PM
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> Don't ask me how I managed to hit  a b with my left hand instead of a p 
> with
> my right hand.  Must have something to do with White Oak.
>
> Charlie
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>> 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
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>> 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
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>> 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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