[AT] Just a fine tractor day

[Len Rugen]

I used my old H last weekend to plant a few acres of deer feed, AKA soybeans. I could use it and not have to swap equipment on the other tractor.  It's not as pretty as yours, but it seems to enjoy working.
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Len Rugen

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    On Sunday, May 22, 2016 9:25 PM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:
 

 Crystal-clear air today, warm but not uncomfortably so, and I had the great
good fortune to spend most of it outside in the company of my Super M.
Some time ago I'd burned the stumps of a few big osage orange trees, and
today's task was to clean up and smooth out that area in preparation for
planting grass and eventually a red maple.  I used my handy little Kubota
to load dirt into the trailer behind the Super M, but once on site the
unloading was up to me, my gloves, and the scoop shovel.  Went pretty quick
and was nice satisfying work, and darned if that old tractor didn't look
mighty good in the evening sunlight.

http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/SM_trailer_20160522.jpg
http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/SM_evening_orchard_20160522.jpg

Only issue with the tractor is that now and then the starter hits a worn
spot on the ring gear and won't engage, and I have to switch off, put it in
5th gear, get down, and rock it back and forth by shoving on one of the rear
wheels to get the ring gear to move a little bit before I try again.  For
tasks like this one, just lots of short hauls and hardly any run time
between starting and stopping the engine, I confess I'm tempted to use "the
new tractor" (Ford 3600).  Or just leave the Super M running, I guess.
Hard to be too upset about that little problem, though, when I look at those
pictures.

Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio


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