[AT] Cold weather starting

rlgoss at twc.com rlgoss at twc.com
Thu Jan 8 10:58:46 PST 2015


Thanks, Darrell.  It was a TSC or Rural King type of store.  I loved the place when we lived there.

Larry

---- Darrell Ratliff <dbigdog at columbus.rr.com> wrote: 
> Larry – a quick Google search reveals that T.G.&Y. were the initials of the founders of the store:

“The company was organized by Rawdon E. Tomlinson (ca. 1883 1948) of Frederick, Enoch L. "Les" Gosselin (1901 77) of Cordell, and Raymond A. Young (1904 2002) of Kingfisher.”



From: rlgoss at twc.com 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 11:35 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
Subject: Re: [AT] Cold weather starting

That brought back a bunch of memories, Farmer.  In Oklahoma we had a T.G. & Y store.  For the life of me, I can't remember what those initials stood for.


Larry
---- Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> We used to have a neighbor who while he was a good neighbor was a pretty
> poor mechanic. His stuff hardly ever started on its own even in good
> weather and that was just his normal thing. He had a steep hill along one
> side of his barn lot that ran about 60' or so down to a fair sized creek.
> He would park tractors along the top of the hill and if one wouldn't start
> he rolled it down the hill to start it. There was a short flat area at the
> bottom where he could turn and drive out to the road. One day when I was a
> kid I asked him what he would do if one didn't start. He said "I'll just
> run it off in the creek".
> We had an occasional cold weather starting problem with a Ferguson TO-20
> that lasted too long. It sometimes would not start with the starter but
> would pull start in about a foot of pull. The starter had been serviced a
> couple of times but still was just pulling too much current. A TSC rebuilt
> starter cured it. That was back around 1960 when our closest TSC (was still
> called Tractor Supply Store) was near downtown Indy and smaller than my
> house is now.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > 12 F & 4 MPH wind; about as cold as it gets here (hour north of Atlanta).
> > Years ago, in central KS,  I am sure there were quite a few mornings with F
> > Finks weather conditions, when I climbed the silo and threw down a pickup
> > load of silage for sixty head of cattle.  Sometimes it seemed like more
> > silage blew back and up into your face than what you had thrown down the
> > chute. Then unloading into long feed bunks. Dad always kept the pickup well
> > tuned, so only concern was shift lever bending/breaking, so shifting was
> > veerrrrry slow.  That was back in the good old days.  Herb
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Fink Sr
> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 4:50 AM
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Cold weather starting
> >
> > Boy Dave i agree on farmer would say Cold, it is 4 below in central PA
> > this morning with a wind about 20MPH
> > R Fink
> > PA
> >
> >
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