[AT] Grain Augers

[David Bruce]

Question - why do posts where I start a new thread posted once while my 
replies to existing threads are posted twice?

David
NW NC

On 12/30/2011 4:13 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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