[AT] Cold weather starting

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Thu Jan 8 15:19:44 PST 2015


My dad used to tell about the early days of tractors here.
The farms here tend to be small fields surrounded by woods
and with ditches (some quite large and deep) running through
them.  Apparently the farmers, used to working mules, would
get excited near the end of the row and yell Whoa to the tractor
which of course would drive straight into the ditch.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 6:07 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Cold weather starting

That sounds a little like a friend of mine a few counties west of here. He
built a field sprayer on a WC Allis. The first field he sprayed had a hill
at one end where he needed to slow down to turn as well as operating the
sprayer controls. For those unfamiliar with WC's, they have hand lever
turning brakes. He told me "I got to the other end and I didn't have enough
hands..."  :-)
He moved the sprayer to a WD quite soon.



On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:31 PM, <gdotfly at gmail.com> wrote:

> I  do appreciate the ones who do this work. I can climb a windmill or
> antenna tower. problem is when you are at the top, the job requires 2 
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> to do so a little short of hands to hold on with. Ladders are no problem 
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> long as on good footing.
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> From: Indiana Robinson
> Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 3:58 PM
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> It doesn't bother me to climb at all... At least not for the first 3 or 4
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> I wonder if there is an official name for the effect where a ladder looks
> far far taller from the top than from the ground.
> Running a SP combine on the side of a hill with a full grain tank has a
> similar feeling related to it.
> I used to get the same feeling loading a SP combine to haul it. I used  to
> load one a dozen or two times a year but I never really got used to it. As
> you drove up the ramps nearly blind due to the angle and the corn head in
> the way it seemed like that cab was at least 25 feet off of the ground.
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> Nothing will teach you patience like a horse. Rule #1, the horse is rarely
> wrong...
> If you want to get inside of a horse's head love is the key, not anger or
> impatience and never revenge. Pet it, groom it, feed it, water it; and 
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> then ask it to work with you as a friend.
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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Nothing will teach you patience like a horse. Rule #1, the horse is rarely
wrong...
If you want to get inside of a horse's head love is the key, not anger or
impatience and never revenge. Pet it, groom it, feed it, water it; and only
then ask it to work with you as a friend.

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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