[AT] Grain Augers

Fri Dec 30 05:48:59 PST 2011

My grandfather had a Long 445 (?) front wheel assist tractor with a loader back in the 80's. I remember driving it and it seemed a big tractor compared to our 8n. For the most part it seemed ok except for the power steering didn't seem to work very well and being FWA it was hard to maneuver. My dad's joke was it was called LONG cause it too 40 acres to turn that thing around. That and trying to understand the hi/lo transmission shifting was a little strange.

I still have the Long 7' rotary mower. It's been a pretty good piece of equipment but I guess it's hard to foul up a rotary mower.

Brad

On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:13 AM, David Bruce wrote:

> My uncle bought a Long 442 (I think - CRS happens frequently here) when 
> I was Jr high age.  He like my dad was a weekend farmer so the tractor 
> didn't get real hard use.  When I left to go to college that tractor was 
> still here but when I returned to the area about 20 years later it had 
> been sold.  Never heard any really bad about it but also never any good. 
>  I did drive it some before I left home - ok but not great.
> 
> David
> NW NC
> 
> On 12/29/2011 11:17 PM, Al Jones wrote:
>> When I was in college, I had to take an ag engineering class for my major.  It was a pretty interesting course, at least the lab was.  We spent a lot of time in class learning welding symbols and a lot of theory about metalurgy, etc. that you would never, ever, EVER use in a high school classroom.  Come to find out, the instructor had worked for Long at some point.  I must say my confidence in his abilities plummeted when I heard that.....He must've been a pretty competent ag engineer though to have sense enough to quit them!
>> 
>> They sold a lot of grain bins and related equipment here.  I guess it's hard to screw up a grain bin. Again their augers were pretty rube goldberg.
>> 
>> Long built some tractors too.  My dad likes to talk about the neighbor that said it would be a LONG time before he was dumb enough to buy another LONG!
>> 
>> al
>> 
>> 
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