[AT] Tractor status for St. Patrick's Day

[Grant Brians]

This weekend we started pushing out part of our orchard with the 1953 D8
13A, steering is hard, I think the brakes need adjustment as the hydraulics
are now working correctly (it has aftermarket hyraulic steering that is a
bit easier on the operator. This project has been a multi-year getting to
the stage of using the tractor as it had a blown out water jacket from 7
degree temperatures and a previous owner that did not make sure it had
adequate anti-freeze.

The new ranch I have leased we are using the AC HD5 for working the orchard,
the Oliver 77 pipe tractor for laying sprinkler pipe and mainline and the
2008 JD6430 discing, plowing and ripping. I need to fix underground 6"
pipelines there today as no one has any idea where they or the underground
valves are!

On the mountain valley location, we are using the Oliver 770 cultivating,
and the other JD6430 and New Holland 6610S to work ground. Beautiful crops
there with Kales, Spinach, Carrots and other root crops, Onions all being
harvested. We have Potoatoes planted there as well and it was 81 degrees
yesterday when I was walking the fields. Tomorrow the first Cucumbers and
Squash are going in - IN APRIL! This is very unusual weather.

Here at the main ranch, we have Potatoes that are up 5 inches tall planted
at the end of January and dozens of cool weather crops growing and
harvesting. We just took out and harvestes the last of the winter Rutabagas
and Radishes and Turnips, but are now picking Spring bunched Turnips. Here
we cultivated last week with the 1951 Oliver 77, moved pipe with the Oliver
Super 88 and will be servicing and chaning the front end from tricycle to
wide on my original tractor - 1949 Oliver 77. We have sweet corn growing
too. Tomatoes are still in the greenhouse and I'm going to plant the rest of
the plants for the 7.5 acres of them for this season starting this coming
week (a little late, but not too bad.)

The little Farmall 100 cultivator tractor is also being used, but I can't
drive that, only my workers as I am too tall. I need to go back to sales and
move Potataoes to the truck in a few minutes as we need to move another 8
acres of seed to plant in the next few days. The life of a California
diversified vegetable farmer is rather busy, especially when he farms year
round. Sorry about the cold weather elsewhere, but at least you get time
off!
          Grant Brians
          Heirloom Organic Gardens
p.s. I am still looking for a Farmall block for one of my 100's that has too
many external cracks for the weight of the racks on that tractor....

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of charlie hill
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:59 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group; Spencer Yost
Subject: [AT] Corrupted E-mail


Spencer,  the spammers got into my e-mail account
and used it to send spam for a couple of days.
My ISP caught it, blocked the account and got it
fixed.  I hope I didn't cause any trouble for the list.
If you have me blocked from ATIS please fix it for me.

Thanks

Charlie
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