[AT] been collecting a long time

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

What part of the country where you farming? Soil erosion must have been a 
nightmare!

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From: toma at risingnet.net
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Quoting jtchall at nc.rr.com:

> You were cultivating with a crawler? I've seen them but never talked to
> anyone who used one. Was yours a high clearance model? I guess the tracks
> would have been narrow.  I always wanted one of those Oliver crawlers that
> you could slide the tracks out to the point the tractor was as wide as it
> was long.
>
> John

It is just a standard wide guage D2, 16" pads, The peas were only 3-4"
tall at the time. We culdn't use a wheel tractor, hills are too steep.

I forgot to say earlier the two steerable wheels were in front. It had
a caster wheel in the back under the riders seat. The iron wheel was
missing when I found it. I rigged up a dirt bike wheel for the rear
caster wheel.

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: toma at risingnet.net
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>
> Quoting Grant Brians <sales at heirloom-organic.com>:
>
>> I too cultivated in the 1970's with a horse drawn cultivator some.
>
> I think I started growing Enlish Peas in 1970. I cultivated with a
> single row cultivator and single horse. Nothing does a better job of
> cultivating peas.
>
> Old Maude only would go about 50 feet and want to stop for a while. I
> traded her to a guy who liked horses better than tractors for an AC
> Model M.
>
> Later I found a 4 row cultivator made to be pulled with a team. It had
> 2 wheels that the rider could steer with a foot treadle. I set up the
> planter for 26" rows. The wide gauge D2 fit the rows perfectly. My son
> would ride the cultivator. We ran the rows up and down the hills. We
> could cover a lot of acres in a hurry with that rig in 3rd gear.
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