[AT] DC Case + Switch From Horses to Tractor

[charlie hill]

Chuck,   a sand hill is dry until it's wet and then it's quick sand.   I've 
seen a A Farmall actually sink in the ground over night after being stuck 
late in the afternoon.  When we went back to the field the next morning 
there was nothing showing but the top of the muffler and the top of the 
steering wheel.  This wasn't down in a bottom.  It was right up almost at 
the top of a sand ridge.

Good video!  Just goes to show you aren't stuck as long as the engine runs!

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chuck Bealke
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:03 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] DC Case + Switch From Horses to Tractor

On 1/15/2012 2:25 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Gene,  my dad used to laugh about the old days when farmers here first
> started to get tractors to replace their mules.
> He said they'd do ok plowing with them until they got to the end of the
> field when the last
> thing you heard before the tractor ran off in the canal was WHOAAAA
> WHOOAAAA!
>
> Charlie
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Charlie,

The switch from horses or mules to tractors is a pregnant topic.
I remember (fondly) the last of my neighbors to trade his team, a Belgian
and Percheron, for a tractor - a Super A.  He was sad for a while after
the team left - about like a feller whose dog has died.
Of course, it was absolutely the right thing to do.  He was not far from
sixty, and had to work a bunch  in summer to cut, rake and put up hay
from 33 acres to feed Prince and Duke the rest of the year.  The 16-inch
plow they pulled was heavy as sin, and got no easier to operate with
age.  I loved to occasionally go watch him plow with them as a pre-teen
and hear the roots rip as the team strained to turn the earth.
Darned if he did not get almost as attached to the Farmall.  Sure wish I
had it now - he cared for it like a mother 'til he got congestive heart
failure and died.

On another topic, if you have been intimate with the embarrassment,
frustration and other vexation involved in sticking a tractor up to it's
axles, you might enjoy a link a friend sent me.  It shows a Russian
tractor cousin with some kind of talent:
http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Crazy-Video-A-Massive-Russian-Kirovec-Tractor-Saves-Itself-From-Certain-Death-in-a-River.html


Chuck Bealke
Dallas

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