[AT] Row Crop

[Paul Waugh]

Hi Farmer

It is not BS, just the way it was in Whitley county. It is I remember it at 
age 13-16. My grandfather had a Ford 806, he bought it new, in 55 or 56, for 
the orchard, ..... farming was done with the Farmall M and H. My uncle 
bought a used 8N in the late forties, because it was the right size for his 
son to pull wagons back and forth.  I can not think of another single Ford 
in the whole 10 square mile neighborhood.  We did not know if they plowed or 
not, no one had a plow for them. Granddad did try to cultivate with his, and 
that did not even last a season. Rich people had green, and poorer had red. 
I owned '48' 8N Ford for 12 years, rebuild it etc, in TN. It did a great job 
on bush hogging the hillsides. My son now has a Jubilee, and it is a great 
tractor with the loader for moving thing under 700 lbs around.  'IF'  we can 
find a single or 2 bottom plow, we might even plow a garden.  I guess my 
folks and part of the country just missed out ... but they seemed to have 
fared reasonably well.

Paul - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Row Crop


> 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...
>
>
>
> -- 
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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