[AT] Hey Ralph!

[charlie hill]

Yes Spencer that is what I was speaking of.  Required footing depth here is 
8" if I remember right.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: ATIS
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 7:57 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!

Best frost guide is house footings.   Code will provide a depth that will 
never freeze. Bottom of footings have to be 24" below undisturbed dirt here 
in Forsyth county(this was when I built my house 25 years ago.  Not sure if 
that is still accurate).  Yes the inspectors showed up with tape measures. 
I've heard of 5-7' footing depths up Ralph's way.

Spencer Yost

> On Nov 21, 2015, at 8:29 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> The frost line here is published at 8" but I don' remember the ground
> freezing that
> deep since I was a boy, more than half a century ago.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 6:04 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!
>
> Rare for the ground to freeze real deep here. Often times it will over
> night, but thaw on top by mid-morning. I guess the fields were fairly flat
> or he would have had trouble with the picker dog-tracking?
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Don
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 9:57 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!
>
>> On 11/20/2015 8:18 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Ralph,  is there any chance that just after the freeze up you can get in
>> the field and harvest it before it gets snow covered?
>
> Sometime in the mid 50s we had a very wet fall so could not get in to
> pick the corn.  This was before combine shellers, we used a two row
> picker and stored corn in a crib.   My uncle made skids out of old dozer
> blades and when the ground froze enough we used his D4 to pull the corn
> picker.  It was not many years later we bought a picker sheller.
>
> A huge corn crib we built was still standing when we visited the farm
> last summer.
>
> -- 
> Don Bowen       --AD0NB--
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