[AT] Plowing

[Greg Hass]

Those old timers that built those old tractors were pretty smart and 
designed some pretty good things. Growing up we used a IH Super C for a 
lot of things including some with trip ropes. My dad used the bent wire 
trick on our equipment,however it hooked to a special place on the seat. 
It was a short piece of spring steel about 1/16 of an inch thick with a 
3/4 inch hole and was standard from the factory. The edges of the hole 
were quite sharp. In later years I asked my dad why it was built like 
that. He said that it was so if you actually put the rope through the 
hole and tied a knot in it and the implement unhooked the rope would be 
cut off instead of possibly giving the operator a big enough jolt to 
knock him off the seat. A pretty smart idea I think.
       Greg Hass