[AT] in cab refrigerators?

Steve W. swilliams268 at frontier.com
Mon Oct 10 12:51:10 PDT 2011


charlie hill wrote:
> I don't think the old timers were lying John.  I can tell you with my hand 
> on a bible that I've saddled up on an Allis Chalmers before daylight and 
> ridden it until after dark only stopping when it was time to pour more fuel 
> in the tank.  While daddy was doing that I'd wolf down a sandwich or two or 
> have a Pepsi and a pack of "square nabs".     I grew up with some kids who 
> came from a big family.  Their dad didn't own his land but was a share 
> cropper.  They had a Farmall  A and a Super A.  The A was worn completely 
> out.  When it was time to plow in the spring they would hit the field with 1 
> bottom 14" plows behind those Farmalls  and run them around the clock until 
> they finished.  The boys and the old man would work in shifts, the tractors 
> never stopped.
> 
> It's been nearly 50 years since my farming days.  I can still see in my mind 
> the blue and orange fire from the exhaust of the Allis as I made my way back 
> home in the dark after a long day of plowing.
> 
> Charlie
> 

On most of the Farmall line from the Regular up for a LOT of years a cab 
would have made it interesting just getting on/off the tractor. But then 
again that seat hanging out halfway over the implement also kept you 
awake... Didn't want to fall off.



-- 
Steve W.




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