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Posted by Bill(Wis) on July 21, 2007 at 07:40:37 from (71.249.198.251):
In Reply to: Re: driving posted by buickanddeere on July 20, 2007 at 17:46:25:
Our neighbors' little seven year old girl used to drive the '49 JD A and flat rack hay wagon alongside the bales in the field and we would load the wagon by hand from each side. No particular problem as the fields were flat and the tractor had that beautiful hand clutch. One day she stopped and then told us she couldn't touch the clutch lever anymore, it was too hot. That's when we found out she didn't have the strength to push the lever all the way forward and had been slipping it all the time. We spit on the pulley cover and it really sizzled but no smoke. We laughed about that for years.
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