[AT] Good tractor day

[Mark Johnson]

Spencer - you've got some good help growing up there. If he wants to 
help buck bales, don't discourage him!

Mark J

On 5/17/2020 10:23 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> Thanks Tyler and congrats on the nephew!
>
>
> To answer your question my grandson is 6.  He’s really good with the 
> animals and loves being here on our little farm.  As you folks are 
> aware, I just baled and put up hay on Friday and he came on Saturday. 
> So I still had a few bales sitting around. He absolutely shocked me 
> yesterday.  he was able to get one of the bales off the ground. That 
> thing weighed very nearly as much as he did.  Not too many years until 
> he can help?
>
> Spencer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 17, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Phil Auten <pga2 at basicisp.net> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> 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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>>>>
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