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

[Gene Waugh]

Damn, Charlie, I never (then nor now!) thought about dropping a horn 
worm down the exhaust!!!  Now, that woulda been a treat; wish I had 
thought of it as a 7 yr old!!!

Gene

charliehill wrote:
> 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>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Can you name the first three tractors you drove?
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>   
>> 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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