A Rumley salesman(back in Indiana, and told to me by my grandfather)made an appointment to demonstrate a 4 plow Oil-Pull tractor. The neighbor was a dedicated horsemen. The salesman and the neighbor set off down the field making more progress in one round and 25 minutes, than his teams did in in 2 hours. The salesman had been operating the controls for two rounds when he asked the farmer if he would like to run it himself. I guess so he said. About 100 ft down the field, the salesman jumped off. (not dangerous at .8 miles an hour) and said he would take lunch while the farmar made the round. He went and sat under the road fence, and promptly went to sleep. Not a good plan. The farmer got to the far end following the furrow edge easily. When the headland was upon him, he panicked. forgetting all levers, ropes, and steering. Yelling Woah (and expletives unbecoming a faithful man) he drove through the fence and into the winter wheat in the other neighbors field. making 4 big circles of plowed wheat and dragging 15 rod of barb wire and posts (some of which limited escape options, and some of which wound up tight on the wheels). All stopped when it steered itself GEE right into a tree bigger than it could mount. Killing the engine. The farmer walked back to the salesman and suggested he was not convinced it was his intention to buy. The salesman ended up splitting the reparation of damage with the farmer, and sold the tractor to a different neighbor because it was unstoppable. The original farmer never owned a tractor, nor got a license to drive, but he had a son who made the transition in the 1930s. Jim
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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