[AT] in cab refrigerators?

[Al Jones]

In one of my IH books there's an original color pic of a M plowing and you can plainly see a red spot in the center of the muffler. VERY cool!

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 10, 2011 1:55 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] in cab refrigerators?
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>Alan our Allis exhaust was of course straight out the top.   A flame about 
>12 to 14 inches would glow out the top and shine against the early evening 
>dark after a long day of running hard.
>I've seen the exhaust glow on the belly mufflers on Fordson and MF tractors. 
>In fact I've seen them burn the weeds a few times.   Good memories!
>
>Charlie
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Alan Nadeau
>Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:28 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] in cab refrigerators?
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>Charlie, your, and others, comment on glowing/flaming exhaust hits pretty
>close to home.
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>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.
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>It also hits close to the heart.  I worshipped my Grandfather and Uncle and
>remember my Uncle on the 520 they had and taking him a supper of sandwiches
>after milking when it was plowing time.
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>This is from an article that I wrote which was published in Green Magazine
>quite a few years ago, way back when ATIS was running on the Forsyth County
>computers.
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>" I do remember seeing my uncle plowing with the 520. We had a new 3 bottom
>3 pt plow. The 520 had the orchard style exhaust that ran down under the
>rear axle. At night plowing the exhaust manifold and muffler would glow red.
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>As I was searching for that old file I noticed that it was originally
>written in 1995, so it was indeed a while ago.  I don't know if I ever
>posted it here but if anybody wants I can do that.   It appeared in GM as
>one of the "Through the Years With Different Deeres" articles.
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