[AT] Can you name the first three tractors you drove?

Paul Waugh pwaugh at embarqmail.com
Mon Dec 14 08:26:47 PST 2009


Guess I should explain why I did not like the TO-30. First, I was 15, 
brought up on Far mall.  The place was in Tingo Maria, Peru, SA. The tractor 
was fairly new in 1955. My job was to disk between the banana trees planted 
in a checkered fashion.  The 6 ft disk make the front very light, and a lot 
of steering was done with the brakes (never had that problem on pull disks). 
It had low ground clearance, and would fall into an ant hill and get belly 
hung ( I could not count the times,) (you could not tell ant hill was there) 
You would be within inches of solid ground but those 24 inch tires just did 
not reach, and so were belly hung. Got get the D2 Cat and pull it out. I 
kept hoping they would buy a real tractor :)) (Far mall)
Paul - 46555

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Can you name the first three tractors you drove?

> At 15 we moved to Peru, SA. I was a 'qualified' tractor driver, and drove
> TO-30 a lot. At 16 moved to my uncles farm and the same H became mine,
> especailly when corn was being culivating.
>
> So, (1) Farmall 'H', (2) TO-30 (never did liked it), then (3) Farmall M, 
> oh,
> but the arces I plowed with that M.





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