[AJD] tractor mushrooms

[Bruce Mahr]

Kreig: The box is the stand and you can take the jack out and use in a 
second, third, fourth, etc., box for blocking up more tires off the ground.

Bruce Mahr

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kreig" <astroguy at nas.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AJD] tractor mushrooms


> Jim,  the "mushrooms" in the photos are of a hydraulic jack inside some 
> kind
> of built up box for taking weight off the tires.  I just dont understand 
> the
> purpose or function of the box.  Then again, maybe i am totally confused.
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Kreig
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Showers" <steamcar at frontiernet.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [AJD] tractor mushrooms
>
>
>>I don't have the magazine handy, but the mushrooms were on the unstyled AO
>> orchard tractors.  One was for the air intake, and the other was mounted
>> where the exhaust on the AR would have been.  They were mounted very low
>> to
>> the hood to deflect branches.
>> Jim Showers
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "kreig" <astroguy at nas.com>
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>>> Two Cylinder Magazine - March - April 2008
>>>
>>> Page 53.
>>>
>>> Ok, I am looking at this picture of a "tractor mushroom".
>>>
>>> Obviously my brain is too small to figure this out.  How does it work?
>>> Why
>>> is it needed?
>>>
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