Working one college summer for a seed corn company, heading from Ubly, MI after planting a test plot, pulling a borrowed triple axle flat bed loaded with a JD 3020 and custom plot planter. We were entering the highway in Saginaw by the Steering Gear plant, big sweeping cloverleaf-type on ramp, and I see one of the trailer wheels step out and start to pass us on the inside line. Being a farmer-run operation, we had cobbled the whole setup together, and brought almost no tools, etc. I was mechanically inclined, but not at all experienced with transporting equipment to know any better. Looks like it took out the bearing and the whole hub came off. Boss says "it aint draggin, let's just go slow", so we head back to Jackson with five tires on the ground and one in the truck.
Same operation that had me pulling a brand-new weigh cart, and had the new ball come undone from the hitch insert. Trying to stop a top-heavy load like that, that is barely hanging on to the bumper with the two safety chains, from the left lane of the Ohio turnpike at 5 pm, think I had some seat cover stuck in the crack that day...
OR, pulling the Gleaner E test plot combine on a lowboy behind a F700 box truck...
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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