[AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long

[David Rotigel]

Hi Gene, Since when does the "subject" and the content have anything  
to do with each other on any ATIS list?
	Dave

On Sep 14, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Gene Dotson wrote:

>     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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique- 
> tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>
>
>> 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
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>>
>>
>>> 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>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> 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>
>>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> 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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