[AT] here I go again

[charlie hill]

Ron,  I was doing the final plowing on soy beans one year
with just the back sweeps on the tractor cleaning the row 
middles out.  I was running in 4th gear at about 1/3 throttle 
which was maybe 5 mph.  One of the neighbor farmers stopped
by and threatened to tell my dad on me for plowing in high gear.
I thought I was doing a fine job. 

Keep on telling your stories.  I enjoy reading them.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Cook 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:01 AM 
To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
Subject: Re: [AT] here I go again 

Dean,
     Thanks,  I always was a story teller.  Windy, some folks say. 
Anyways, where I grew up, we actually had loess hill ground to farm 
too.  Not much more equipment required other than a top planter and a 
rotary hoe.  The cultivator got put on the '41 John Deere A the same 
time you folks did.  It worked the hill ground while the other tractors 
were on skeleton wheels working the listed crops with the lister 
cultivators, or low-downs as we called them.  Many called them 
go-devils.  Then the other tractors went back on rubber tires and the 
front mounted cultivators went on,  high-ups, is what we called them.  
By then it was July and a 4th gear pass through the corn and it was 
considered laid by.  I always enjoyed that high speed last cultivation.  
It seemed like you were actually getting something done.
     By the way, the crops really look nice up there in Sioux County 
this year.  There is, however, still plenty of time for hail.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

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