[AT] The way they sound

John Slavin jslavin at marktwain.net
Sun Aug 3 10:13:45 PDT 2014


Hehe.  Dean, as I was reading that, before I got to your last paragraph, I was thinking to myself, "All he needs now is a Oliver 6 cylinder sewing machine engine to round things out"!  Although, I'll have to add that a WD45 is a sweet sounding engine too.  

John Slavin
jslavin at marktwain.net


> From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: [AT] The way they sound
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:30:40 -0400
> 
> A week ago, after overcoming the shear pin issues, I finished brush hogging
> the orchard meadow with the JD 620 just as daylight was fading, and I found
> myself thinking "If there's a nicer sounding tractor than this, I don't know
> what it would be."   Tonight, now that the ring gear issues have been (at
> least temporarily) overcome, I was using the Super M to haul another trailer
> load of scrubby trees and honeysuckle cleared from the side of the driveway
> back to a big burning pile I'm accumulating.   Turning into the clearing
> just as daylight was fading, I found myself thinking "If there's a nicer
> sounding tractor than this, I don't know what it would be."
> 
> Since I'm evidently incapable of deciding whether the 620 or the Super M
> sound better, I've come to the inescapable conclusion that I need an Oliver
> 77.
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio



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