[AT] road grader

[charlie hill]

John when that grader was built an M Farmall was a big tractor.   It was
probably designed to be pulled by something heavier than an M but with
less HP.  They used to grade the streets in the town I grew up near with
one similar to that in the early 50's and it was old then.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 2:02 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] road grader

I think I have mentioned my familys presumably antique road grader here 
before. We had a couple ditches that needed pulling between some fields and 
the property line. Last Sat was nice and dry, not to mention I had the corn 
out of the fields. We hadn’t used it in a couple years, lets just say it was 
mighty stiff.  There are no helper springs on this machine so raising the 
blade is a real chore. Heck picking the tongue up ain’t easy, it may have 
had a spring to help with that originally. We offset it to track 3-4 feet to 
one side so we could put it in the ditch and keep the tractor on sure 
footing. In places I had to get off and walk behind since the tree branches 
on the borders would have knocked me off the operators platform. Most of the 
time I had so much pressure on the blade the right rear of the grader would 
be off the ground. I introduced my son to the controls so he could see what 
real work is like. I don’t think I have ever been in shape enough to run 
that thing all day, 3 hours is enough unless you are lightly grading roads. 
It does a great job clearing snow, provided you have somewhere to turn 
around. FYI, my grandmother bought it for $75 way back when the biggest 
thing on the farm was a Farmall M. I will say you aren’t going to do 
anything other than road scraping with that small of a tractor. We had one 
ditch we used to pull every couple years that required hooking both 4020 
Deeres to it. The ditch was so steep you really had to hang on to ride the 
grader.

John Hall





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