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

[charliehill]

The tennant farmers on our place had teenage children when I was a kid. 
They taught me a lot of stuff.   Some of it my mother wouldn't be proud of. 
LOL.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Waugh" <GWaugh at wowway.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 5:32 PM
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> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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