Re: Seat Heater

Posted by Bill46 on March 29, 2005 at 10:41:36 from (63.65.68.246):

In Reply to: Seat Heater posted by PAULIH300 on March 28, 2005 at 19:05:15:

Baked buns huh. Funny you should mention that.
My dad had a 300U when I was a kid. In fact I have it now.
We were in Indiana picking corn. Dad drove the 450D with the mounted picker, Grandad had the 300U pulling corn wagons to the corn crib. I got stuck shoveling corn in the cribs.
Grandad was complaining about the cold seat on the 300U a lot, so that night I wanted to help him.
After supper I went to the tool shed to look for an old sheep skin Grandad had on the Super H seat. I found instead an old length of heat tape from a water pipe.
I was a kid and knew no better, but I wanted to help Grandad. I tried it on an old battery and it worked fine...not real hot, just warm.
I wound it around under a feed sack and rigged it to a switch taped to the throttle handle. I told Grandad to try it the next morning.
He really liked it. Dad just looked at me strange.
All went well until Grandad did not show up at the corn crib for a long while. I looked out to the field in time to see him running around trying to get out of a pair of bib overalls in the middle of the corn field and the tractor seat ablaze. Dad was running to help him and yelling for me to put out the fire on the tractor.
It ruined the 300U cushion seat and dad refused to buy another one. I always had to use it to plow...and boy did I learn a lesson.
It was a long time before Grandad could set, let alone talk about how I had toasted his buns. He thought it was funny years later...dad never did.
I bought a new cushion for the 300U when dad passed away, but I still have that old burned one hanging in the tool shed. I just can't throw it away.

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