[AT] Good tractor day

[Phil Auten]

It just don't get any better than that!

Phil in TX


On 5/16/2020 10:36 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>  Thanks Phil, Mark and Mitchell.  I’ve decided against paining the 
> 430 V.  It looks really great in his work clothes right now. Very 
> little surface rust. But you’re right:  That refurbished John Deere 
> rake does look a little too new behind it :-)
>
> And yes Mark the rain stayed away but we actually had some small 
> chances during the cloudy days and had a light mist the morning after 
> I cut.  No worse than a heavy dew so the hay remained unaffected.  A 
> few local showers did show up but missed me thank goodness.  So I 
> avoided the “clean” hay.
>
> Mitchell. My grandson is visiting this weekend.  Last week before his 
> daycare opens up.   Interestingly, he was fixated with the temperature 
> gauge this time. “It’s going up to normal, grandpa!“.   I also had to 
> pull a few hills with a low throttle setting and a higher gear so he 
> could hear it “work“. He loves to hear that 430V  putt, putt, putt 
> when the governor opens up a bit.
>
> I’ve been teaching him to steer too.  Here’s a video. Probably one of 
> the last lessons.  He’s getting too big to safely sit on may lap while 
> we joy ride.
>
>
>
>
>
> Spencer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 15, 2020, at 7:02 PM, Mitchell Daly <md31043 at msn.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Congratulations Spencer. It's always a great feeling to get the old 2 
>> cylinders running like they should.
>> Mitch
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com>
>> Date: 5/14/20 8:05 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Subject: [AT] Good tractor day
>>
>> After a drying delay (one day) due to cloud cover that was completely 
>> unforecasted, I got to rake today. My new (to me anyways) rake that I 
>> bought last year and the 430 V did great.
>>
>> The timing I did was extremely helpful.  Not only was power and 
>> engine speed noticeably smoother, I found another benefit: Last year 
>> I noticed my nostrils would sting just a bit from the exhaust. Kept 
>> thinking I need to reroute the exhaust. Actually it was a symptom of 
>> my timing being off a hair. No exhaust sting in the nostrils today.
>>
>> It was a good day.
>>
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