Re: New shop going up!

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 21, 2005 at 03:58:12 from (216.208.58.144):

In Reply to: New shop going up! posted by Paul Shuler on January 20, 2005 at 23:14:44:

Paul: Looks good, now that is the kind of home Farmalls should have. Is it two tractors you have? Space is a funny thing, when you have too much you just collect junk or worse still your good better half decides there is room for her junk as well.

I agree with Dick, phone and refrigerator are a must. As you get older you find a cot or sofa would be nice, just for a quiet little nap amoung the Farmalls. I do that to rest up for my early morning computer time. Some of us must be on here early just in case one of the flock is in need of old iron discussions.

Believe me I don't hook the 130 or 140 onto just any truck. That guy with the Louisville, could have come out with just a dusting of traction sand or ashes. I had plowed the snow time before for neighbor, from where he was parked I knew his drive wheels were on solid ice, under the new snow. The helper he sent to get me was himself a small Farmall owner. We knew who we were dealing with in the truck driver, and just wanted to have a bit of fun at his expence. It really wasn't that hard of a pull. I was on ashphalt, truck and trailer were comming up about 2-3% grade. 10 ton of truck and trailer move quite easily under those conditions, ground froze hard as flint. Believe me if a truck were down in mud, even slightly, I'd back off quite quickly. Don't believe in making a fool of my little Farmalls.

I have towed trucks that were really stuck and heavy one's as well. I remember one a pulp truck hauling from my farm woodlot. Had to chain the John Deere 540 to a tree to winch that one. We pulled three big trees out by root, before I got him out. I really couldn't understand why he was comming so hard, until I got the returns for the load of wood. I misjudged lenght of his trailer, he weighed in at 140,000 lbs. Lucky for him the highway scales were closed as his legal limit was about 110,000 lbs. I understand that was his first and last load of pulpwood.

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