[AT] Row Crop

[Indiana Robinson]

We got our first spin-out rears in 1961 and I have been using them
since. I also had a WD Allis with spin-outs. I have never greased a
rail on one. Just loosen the cams, move the stop. put it in gear and
hold the brake while letting out on the clutch.
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I have a set of spin-out rims sitting out here for sale that came off
of a Ford 8000. I forget its HP but I think it was around 100 HP.
Several of the suburbanites around here have stopped and wanted to buy
those rims for fire rings for their backyard. They usually turn a
little green when I quote them $200 for the pair.  :-)  They are very
good and someday I will find someone that can use them and knows their
value. My father bought them from Roberts Farm Equipment down at
Morning Sun OH. for $400 but we didn't use them. I have had them
sitting on a pallet ever since. I move them now and then and I think
they are on their third or fourth pallet. :-)
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I have several old semi wheels I put out for fire rings here. They
work pretty well but of course they would never hold up to a "Dotson
inferno"... They would just melt.   :-)
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Paul: Around this part of Central Indiana we have a lot of varying
soil types and our fields had a lot of wet spots in the spring. Two
bottom plow tractors were the norm here for most farms and 2 - 14"
plows were pretty much standard. Only larger farms used three plow
tractors until the mid 1950's. If you look at advertising of the
1940's it reflected that very much in both John Deere and Farmall ads.
It was also reflected at the county fair displays. A Ford or Ferguson
tractor all the way back to the 1939 9N would pull its 2-14 3 point
hitch plow 8" deep at about 4 to 5 MPH all day long. In a wet year one
would absolutely plow rings around a 1939 John Deere B (or about
anything else that size) that was trying to pull a rope trip pull type
plow which was all that the rest of them had available to them to plow
with. I was reminded of this a few years ago when I invited a few guys
here to do some fun plowing. I was using a MF with a mounted plow and
list member Scott Pike was using his WD Allis with a mounted plow.
Another old tractor friend was using a John Deere unstyled A (highly
souped up) with a two bottom rope trip plow. He had HP to waste... He
kept shifting up and throttling back and pulling easy "EXCEPT" he kept
hitting wet spots and then he was just stuck... period. All he could
do was try his best to lift the plow clear out of the ground which was
tough since the lift drive wheel would just slide. Several times he
had to unhitch and pull it out backward. Scott Pikes WD with a mounted
plow just kept rolling. The weight transfer hydraulics made all of the
difference and the Ferguson system was highly respected around here
even by guys that would only buy red or green equipment.
I'm not sure where you get this BS about only pulling empty wagons
with Fords and Fergusons... They would pull a pull type corn picker
with a loaded wagon behind it and did it fine. Today I have all colors
of tractors, mostly red and a couple of greens but I find your
put-down of the Fords and Fergusons to be uninformed and frankly kind
of silly. I must assume that you never owned one...



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Have you hugged your horses today?

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com