[AT] in cab refrigerators?

[charlie hill]

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

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 9:55 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] in cab refrigerators?

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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