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seemed to be common back then

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03-08-2007 10:14:27




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Till the day my grandpa died he told the story of a neighbor a mile over. Back in the 50's my grandpa did custom silo filling for about 15 guys. This particular time he had his just new 60 on the Gehl chopper and the 52 B running wagons. As is quite common in good old Claybanks township about silo filling time, grandpa found a wet spot and the 60 was partway down to China before he knew it. The B just wouldn't have had the guts to pull it out and the old IH piece running the blower was to difficult to unhook. The old farmer had a older D setting in the corn crib, and it seemed the only chance of getting the 60 back on top. He and Grandpa talked about it and conclude the D is the answer, so the guy heads off in the other direction, towards the horse barn. Grandpa kind of scratched his head and walked to the corncrib. He did the usual thing to get a 30's D started, and jumped on it to head over to the barn. About this time the old guy comes out of the barn with his belgian team all in hitch. The guy just about fell over when he saw grandpa had actually got the D started without the 2 horsepower method. As it ends up, the guy had never once been able to start the D by hand, everytime he needed it he had to pull it with Ben and Bess. Needless to say the D had not been used very much because he did not know what the primer cups were for. The D had been purchased by the farmers dad while the younger was in Australia during the war, and before the son returned from WW II, the father passed away in a car accident. Son came back and went to farming but it never occured to him to read the D's manual about proper starting method. He never lived down the story, I can remember at his funeral get together hearing it one last time. His grandkids didn't have the foggiest what a D was but liked the story.

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