[AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long

[John Hall]

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