[AT] in cab refrigerators?

[Gene Dotson]

    I 1976, I attended Farmfest '76 in Lake Crystal, Minnesota. This was 
during the sesquicentennial for the nation and this was the major show for 
agriculture. On didplay there were two custom built tractors, shop built for 
a large farm somewhere in the northern plains. One tractor was powered by a 
Cummins engine and the othe was Detroit powered. Both of these tractors had 
very large cabs and included a refrigerator, stove and a bunkbed. The owner 
said the tractor was sent out on Monday morning with two drivers and 
provisions for the whole week. The crew worked straight through till Friday 
night and only stopped for fuel and more provisions. One slept in the 
tractor while the other drive was on duty. Imagine the ares they would cover 
in this time.

    Also on display was the Bug Bud tractors and a double articulated 
Steiger with two engines and 6 wheel drive. This was a prototype and didn't 
demonstrate it, for fear it would break down in front of all the spectators. 
Nothing came of this project. Wonder if it still exists? Maybe needed a 
multi-engine rating to operate it?

                    Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Subject: Re: [AT] in cab refrigerators?


> Seems to me that Massey offered a microwave oven in one of their big four
> wheel drive tractors some years ago. It and a fridge too would be handy 
> but
> not likely something I would order on a new tractor (in the unlikely event
> that I should ever be buying a new tractor or combine.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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>> Saw an ad for the newly designed Deere combines. They now have a
>> refrigerator in the cab. I think it is safe to say we just don't have the
>> caliber of men in this country that we used to. Either that or all the
>> tales the old timers told of 16 hour days and working all night in the
>> fields by the light of the moon were a bunch of BS.
>>
>> John Hall
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