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

[charliehill]

Gene,  you can drop one of those old horn worms down in the exhaust pipe 
with the tractor idling, let him cook ofr about a minute then quickly give 
the tractor full throttle and back to idle making it backfire.  It'll blow 
the hornworm about 25 feet in the air if you do it  right.  grins.
I hated those things.  At the end of tobacco season it was always my job to 
cut the stalks, 2 rows at a time with the bush hog.  The stalks would go 
under the front axle and snap back up, often breaking a piece of the stalk 
about 3 to 6" long off and flinging it in your face along with a constant 
barrage of hornworms slung in the same fashoin.  The pieces of stalk would 
put a mark on you or worse, hit you in the eye.   The hornworms would 
spatter on your face.  I'm not sure which was worse.

Paul what were you doing in Peru and where were you guys in NC?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Waugh" <GWaugh at wowway.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Can you name the first three tractors you drove?


> Like my brother Paul, we didn't live right on a farm---Mom and Dad got
> away just as quick as they could!!
>
> Still, what with the folks overseas and my living wiht my grandparents
> off and on, I did drive---and do a little field work.
>
> This involved a 1937 unstyled JD G, 1953 M and later on a Ford---Paul,
> it wasn't a Jubilee, was it?  I think it was a year or two newer than
> that. I did some rotary hoeing, but most of my jobs, due to my
> 'part-time' status (and degree of experience, of course!!!) were running
> grain, hay etc from the field to the barn.
>
> In any case,the HIGHLIGHT of my youth, the day I "Became a Man", was
> when I was around 10 or 11 and got that G started all by myself!!!!!  I
> still remember scooting underneath it, mounted cultivators and all, to
> get the far side compression petcock!!
>
> And Paul, were you around in NC when Mr. Atkins got, if I member right,
> a JD M?  This was a treat when in the tobacco field, as opposed to
> having the danged mules around.  Another highlight was learning how
> those big tomato (also known as tobacco) horn worms bubbled on the
> exhaust manifold!!!  Ah, young boies!!!
>
> Gene Waugh
> Elgin, IL
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