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[Indiana Robinson]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Al Jones <farmallsupera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have been a little bit behind.....this little item showed up at my house
> about two weeks ago:
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/4458643070_66b8976c6e_o.jpg
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2712/4458643022_6a24505d33_o.jpg
>
> An IH #10 auger cart.  Holds around 90 bushels of feed, grain, etc.  We have
> an old  Helix brand that looks a lot like this one but it's in bad shape--it
> hauled a lot of feed from the mill in its day.  This one is special because
> it's IH  :)
>
> Al
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We had a Helix for many years. Used it constantly until the livestock
was gone. I like the IH hitch design better. The very old Helix we had
had big tall side gussets on the hitch that wouldn't allow you to turn
without unhitching the PTO shaft. In later years they made the gussets
lower. The way ours was made unless you had all of your feeders in a
straight line you had to climb off and unhitch the PTO to move from
one to the other then get off and hook it back up then off again. I
always wanted to change the hitch but my father didn't care how much
of a PITA it was because I was the only one that used it... I was just
a kid. If I had needed one in later years I would have just modified
it to be like your IHC. That old helix moved a zillion tons of feed
and grain (wheat, oats and soybeans) though.



-- 
Have you hugged your horses today?

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