[AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long

Sun Sep 16 06:51:34 PDT 2007

Al, give us an update.  How was the trip, was the Cub as advertised, etc.?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long

> Charlie, don't worry about it.
>
> I got back from King George, VA with my new "toy" tonight, safe &
> sound.....
>
> Al
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 9:54 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>
> Gene I was out of town for 2 days last week.  When I got home I had 6
> messages in my ATIS folder.  I figure anything that anyone says on this
> list
> these days is just helping to keep the doors open.  You're right, I
> should
> have changed the subject line, I just don't think it affected too many
> folks
> that I didn't.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>
>
>>    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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