[AT] Grain Augers

[David Bruce]

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!
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> 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.
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> 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!
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