[AT] Just a fine tractor day

[Ken Knierim]

Wow! those are NICE pics. And I love the red roofing on the barns.

Nice work, Dean!

Ken in AZ

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> 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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