[AT] Windbreaker out of storage

John Hall jthall at worldnet.att.net
Mon Nov 24 17:18:08 PST 2008


Good grief, didn't you guys have insurance? No way you'd catch me in that 
kind of weather! That late in the year and that cold I would imagine header 
loss to have been a big problem. I think the coldest they ever did any field 
work here was applying nitrogen on wheat at 1 deg. I beleive they had to 
"dribble" it on. They guy doing the spraying was running a Farmall M.

I remember one very wet fall around '86 or '87. We finished cutting beans 
the first week of Jan. Right before that time, there were a lot of JD 6620 
and 7720's sold around here. It seemed they all had much wider tires than 
the generation they replaced. It was amazing to watch them go through the 
mud (or more like try) Even the 4wd models couldn't make it through every 
mudhole. The areas that were too wet were abandoned for really cold nights 
and then cut with the ground frozen.

I remember taking our JD 4430 with an 11 shank chisel plow and ripping up 
the ruts left by the combine. We had to do that so they wouldn't hold water 
all winter. I would do this with the ground somewhat frozen. Needless to say 
it pulled up some massive chunks or dirt (frozen). I even broke a shank one 
morning the ground had frozen so tightly.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Windbreaker out of storage



> The coldest I ever worked at field work was back when we were having a
> farmer/school teacher friend doing our soybean combining (we were
> still picking ear corn). That was a lousy fall/winter and about
> everybody was way late with field work. It just kept raining and
> raining and the fields were just soup. We were waiting for a dry
> streak or a freeze and the guy doing the job had a bunch of work to do
> ahead of ours. It didn't freeze hard or for long until about Xmas. He
> got everybody ahead of us ran and finally started our soybeans on the
> 14th of January and was running at night. He was using a Gleaner,
> about a K or earlier I think and it had a cab but no heater. We ran
> about all night at 14 below zero. He had to run with his cab door open
> or his windows frosted up so bad he couldn't see. I was running wagons
> up and down the road on an open tractor (MF-65 if I recall correctly)
> and unloading. I got really cold on the road but I would start the
> unloading and run in the house a few minutes to thaw out and then head
> back to get another wagon. He had a big thermos of hot coffee and I
> refilled it for him several times and kept shuttling hot sandwiches to
> him.
> Never want to do that one again. I think it took me 3 weeks to get
> warm again.   :-)
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> " 




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