[AT] new duties

[charlie hill]

I guess I was 12 or so.  I was bush hogging a pasture for a friend of my 
dad.
Going around the inside of the fence corner, the PTO pushed the tractor a
bit more than I anticipated and the front end slid into the fence on the far 
side of
the corner causing the single trailing wheel of the bush hog to get into the 
fence behind the corner.
It was a good, hog wire fence and I didn't want to tear it up.  The front 
wheel hub cap was inside one
of the fence squares and the end of the trailing wheel boom was inside 
another square.
In my memory it seems like it took 10 or 15 minutes of pulling ahead a few 
inches, twisting the no power
steering wheel, backing up a few inches and repeating before I ever managed 
to work my way out without
doing noticeable damage to the fence.  I think I stretched it a bit but 
didn't break it.
Haven't thought about that in a long time.

Charlie


-----Original Message----- 
From: Bo Hinch
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2017 1:25 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] new duties

We always called them  FenceClimbers because it you didn`t start turning
quick enough , it would climb right on top of the fence .


On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 10:59 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> A farmer down the road 4 or 5 miles from us had one of those DC's.  I 
> never
> got up close
> to it when it was working but the guy had a son about my age.  I was Henry
> on the road
> with it a few times and it seemed to me like that thing would fly in road
> gear.  The
> Allis D-10 that I spent most of my time on would run 12 mph.  That DC
> appeared to my
> 12 year old eyes to be running about twice that.  It didn't appear that he
> had any trouble
> handling it but then again Henry could stand flat footed, turn a back flip
> and land in the same
> spot without taking a step!
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hall
> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 7:53 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: [AT] new duties
>
> Believe it or not, we had the perfect task for dad's 44 model DC Case.
> We used it to bale hay, pulling my old Super 66 New Holland with a
> Wisconsin engine. Well, since I replaced the baler with something way
> more modern, the DC has a new job towing trailers and wagons to load
> bales. It has tremendous lugging capabilities at low RPM and can vary
> the speed greatly in low gear. Around here that tractor would sell for
> $3-500 bucks, no more. So for that kind of money we'll let it earn its
> keep a while longer! Here is a picture of it towing a load of wheat
> straw this week.
>
> John Hall
>
>
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