[AT] Just a fine tractor day

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Mon May 23 05:29:18 PDT 2016


Those are both calendar quality shots. Beautiful.
Cecil in OKla


On 5/22/2016 9:02 PM, Dean Vinson 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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