[AT] My MF135 at work

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Scott; 
I have seen some tough mowing in my time but I have never done any mowing that would even remotely compare to what you have accomplished here. All I can say is that you and your little 135 done good. I was going to tell you to watch your engine temperature gauge but I do not think that it's necessary now. 
I once pulled 6/16 inch bottoms plowing in a field in the Missouri River bottoms. A field that had weeds so tall I could not see over them standing on the Fender of an 856 International. We had to stop at the end of each row to clean the bugs off the radiator. I thought that was tough but it don't compare to what you just did. 
Thank you for the video, I would have had trouble believing it. 
Gil 

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From: "Scott Williams" <swillia5 at rochester.rr.com> 
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> 
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 1:47:34 PM 
Subject: Re: [AT] My MF135 at work 

Here's a picture from last week looking towards the area where the video was 
taken, no more tall grass and brush. 

Scott in Penfield NY 

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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 2:29 PM 
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Subject: [AT] My MF135 at work 

A few weeks ago, I was so happy to finally have my tractor un-stuck and 
clearing brush, so I took some video. You REALLY couldn't walk through some 
of this terrain without a machete. Also, the "grass" was so tall, that I 
would lose my sense of direction when I got into it, and began to feel 
claustrophobic. Only the sound of the road let me know which way was out. 
I have literally gone in circles out there before, trying to find a 
"shortcut" to my stuck tractor. 



Let me apologize for the shaky camera work in this video. I have ET 
(Essential Tremor) so my camera work is less than stellar. I could probably 
have edited out half of it, but I don't have time or patience for editing 
video these days, so I posted it as-is. The going got sort of rough here 
and there, causing me to lose focus on the camera (and annoyingly letting my 
finger drop into the frame here and there.) After viewing it, I realized 
that the camera was looking where I was looking - and that's not always 
where a viewer would want me to look. I look down to see if I'm about to 
run over a rock, not up to see where I'm going. So, when I watched the 
video, I kept "wishing" I'd raise the camera to look at the path ahead. If 
you watch, you'll wish that too, LOL. Also, when I took the video, I 
thought I had a piece of wood stuck in the flail making a lot of noise. 
Later inspection showed that a cotter pin had come out, and allowed the 
flail knives to move out too far, hitting the housing (and making NOISE.) I 
have since replaced all the cotters and knife holders with bolts - when I 
did it I found that about half were missing the cotters. ROUGH MOWING! 



Anyway, here's the link to the video. https://youtu.be/zzrjLiJ1aQU 



Scott in Penfield NY 



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