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[John Hall]

Nice looking old iron!

On 11/25/2016 11:45 AM, E. John Puckett wrote:
> I forgot to mention in my original instructions, that if the ramps are 
> the kind that attach to the trailer by just setting in a groove rather 
> than a solid attachment there needs to be some kind of stop at the end 
> to keep them from sliding out the end.  As the front wheels go up they 
> tend to push the ramp to the outside.  In addition, if the ramps are 
> longer it can be a problem,  I was using a trailer with long ramps 
> that day and as the front wheels reached the trailer one of them was 
> not on anything as I made the cut to straighten out.  A little pucker 
> time there, but I never let on.  LOL
>
> Regarding the tractor, it is a 41 my father bought used in 47 and 
> farmed with for 45 years.  Among other things the engine has been 
> rebuilt 4 times, possibly 5, I am not sure which.  I have in more 
> hours on it than I can even come close to counting.  If the pictures 
> came through, one of them is me at 5 years old (68 now) working on it, 
> and the other is as it looks now.  If you have old editions of Red 
> Power, there was an article I wrote about it in 2004, somewhere in the 
> range of March through May, I don't remember the exact month.  The 
> title is "Powering the Chopper".
>