<div dir='auto'>Dean<div dir="auto">Thanks for your story about your dad. I have a similar story as well. About 50+ years ago my granddad was a Township Trustee here in NW Ohio. I think every township in Ohio had a pull type road maintainer/grader. Basically a simplified grader to smooth and level stone roads. Only had a few levers and handwheels. Well he drafts me to go grade several miles of stone road. He puts me on the tractor to start, low gear just above idle on a Massy 35 ( I think) diesel tractor. I am suppose to watch and figure out how to run the grader from the tractor seat. We do about a 1/2 mile this way and trade places cause the guy on the maintainer eats all the dust. No further instructions as how and what any thing does other than to cut deeper In the rough and washboard areas and shallower in the smooth areas. I assumed we would continue slow for at least a little while. Well you know what they say about assumptions. Well he puts in up in at least 3rd maybe 4th and opens up the throttle. We didn't go a hundred yards till I went the wrong way with one of the handwheels and cut way too deep. I stalled out the tractor and grandpa was hot. I told him he could at least give me a chance to figure out what did what before entering the race. We then had to turn the rig around and grade the stone back into the hole I created. We then went slow for a mile or so and then got along ok. But boy did I eat a lot of dust.</div><div dir="auto">David </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 27, 2022 4:00 PM, at-request@lists.antique-tractor.com wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Send AT mailing list submissions to
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Thanks for the article and video. It brings back stories my father told of working for the ISDOT during the depression. If you watch carefully you will see more control levers and wheels than what a person has hands and feet. So the operator had to get very proficient to operate that grader properly. Now think about, instead of having a motor to propel that thing consider a team of horses pulling this device. A team of at least 6 horses or more. We had a small version of that horse drawn grader on the farm used to dress up drive ways and move a light snow. Even as a very young child watching my father run that thing with just two horses was something of a miracle. Reins wrapped around his neck, using voice commands for the two Belgian horses, King and Queen, It was a blur of spinning wheels with rapid arm and feet activity adjusting levers, etc. It was very obvious to me I would never learn to drive that machine. His learned skill level was way beyond anything I would ever b
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e able to do. Later instead of horses a tractor was used with me as the driver. Let me tell you the stream of voice commands on what the tractor was supposed to do or was, was way beyond anyone's capability to learn. I suspect he could do a better job with the horses. But look at all those levers and wheels that need to be adjusted on the fly. The only saving grace was the motor grader was moving slowly. No matter where we went if there was a motor or horse drawn grader on display or any where around Dad always had to go take a look. .It was a very important part of his life. I'm sure it was a skill level that is rarely achieved by us hobbyists.
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Came across this article and video linked up on Facebook.
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A guy bought a 1929 McCormick Road Grader, that used to belong to Oregon State Highway Department and got it going.
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There?s an article, and an Oregon DOT video about it here
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https://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/take-a-tour-of-this-86-year-old-mccormick-deering-grader-that-still-plows-snow-in-oregon/
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