[AT] Hey Ralph!

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

I would imagine the smell was just as bad as getting dirty! I can imagine 
what work it was to get the soot off the clothes as well, washing machines 
have come a LONG way in the last 50 years. I imagine your folks had a 
wringer type machine, my mother was still using one when I was born.

John

-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:39 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!




I recall back about 1959 we had a field fire from a hot tractor exhaust
that burned about 7 or 8 acres of standing corn. It burned all of the
leaves, tassels and shucks and most of the ear shanks... It took days to
pick up all of those scorched ears off of the ground and it was a royally
dirty job. The black on the ground was bad enough but you had to work among
all of those blackened sooty stalks too.
The tractors we had then all had horizontal  exhaust and even the next
spring the exhaust kicked up a lot of black while we were plowing.


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