[AT] Gary Parker; now plow guide

[Herbert Metz]

Farmer, thank you.
So these guides indicated whether the tractor driver was in the proper
location, or off by the space indicated?
If that was the situation, plus they did not appear as being real
substantial, no wonder they did not survive the tests of time.
Or am I misunderstanding something?
Herb


> [Original Message]
> From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 10/29/2009 10:32:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Gary Parker; now plow guide
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Herbert Metz <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
wrote:
> > Steve, thanks for posting.
> > The plow guide is something that I do not remember seeing before.  Would
> > assume "it guides in some manner"?
> > Would appreciate someones describing where it is located and how it
works.
> > Herb
> >
> ==============================================
>
>
>
> Hi Herb:
> Most of those attached to the outer end of the right front wheel
> spindle and the disk or small wheels ran in the furrow out ahead of
> the tractor right front wheel. In the case of the ones shown the left
> disc ran against the furrow wall angled very slightly away from the
> furrow wall while the outer disc was angled strongly toward the furrow
> wall.
> On the ones I have seen the attachment just slipped over the extended
> spindle and a pin held it in place.
> -
> During WW-II my father was working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week
> testing aircraft engines at Allisons in Indy and farming. He was using
> a Ford 9N and he would plow a deep headland marker furrow at the ends
> of the fields to wake him up if he dozed (common) and attached a long
> spring like an extra heavy screen door spring to one steering arm so
> that if you let go of the wheel it steered toward the furrow. My
> mother used to say that at times she would see him off of the tractor
> walking behind the tractor in the furrow. He always claimed to have
> only gone through one fence. That tractor had a factory accessory cab
> and the front post of the cab kept the barbed wire from getting him.
> In later years we still sometimes added a spring while plowing. No
> sleeping but it did allow you to sit around sideways in the seat and
> just watch the plow.
> -
> I always liked the little simple cab in the middle of summer sitting
> there cultivating. I don't recall us ever installing the snap on side
> curtains on it during the years I drove it. I wish I had one of them
> now.
>
>
> -- 
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
>
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