[AT] cold Farmall

[charlie hill]

Charlie,  the old ones that are good and stiff do work well as a "skid" but 
it's hard to find them these days.   In our case a big snow is a few inches 
usually so after a few circles the tractor was running on
hard ground but the hood was skimming over snow with patches of broom straw 
sticking up.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Charlie V
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:13 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] cold Farmall

I used to be acquainted with an engineer for one of our customers.  He
lived in the Watertown / Tug Hill  snow belt area of NY where 8 to 12
feet of snow pack is not uncommon.  Charlie's car hood tale brings
this to mind.  Reg, the engineer used an old car hood  (up side
down)for a sled behind his snowmobile to haul wood to his house from
the woods where it was cut.  He claimed it worked very well.  Just
proof that necessity IS the mother of invention.

Charlie V..

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:49 PM, charlie hill
<charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> I think the most fun I ever had in the snow was on a car hood tied via 
> about
> 75 feet of rope to the drawbar of a Ford 5000 that was being driven in a
> tight circle in high gear in the middle of a pasture.
> Down right exhilarating!  I was about 20.  Don't think I'd try it today.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: john hall
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:15 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] cold Farmall
>
> Cold weather here is in the 20's to upper teens. At that temp I expect a
> little difficulty cranking some of the old stuff here. I've hand cranked 
> my
> T-20 several times to go play in ice and snow and have even cranked my 
> 12-20
> Case when there was snow out. But at temps close to zero, is it reasonable
> to expect this old stuff to crank reliably?
>
> John Hall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Cook" <rlcook at longlines.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:19 AM
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>
>> John,
>>     That is my suspicions, too.  It does have a starter, so cranking
>> doesn't happen all that much.  It is currently two below zero and there
>> is no way it would have starting spark were I to venture out and try
>> it.  I just threw another log in the stove.  I'm gonna stay right where
>> I am.
>>
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, IA
>>
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