 Yesterday was a blast!!!! Went to Coal Valley, Ill. to Edwards River Antique Tractors Assn. plow day. 1 inch rain the day before, so not a very big turn out. 2 JD A, 1 H Farmall, 1 wd AC and all 2 bottom plows. One of the plows was a JD 2 way plow. Never seen one close up, quite the outfit. Then I looked around and in drives a Oliver 77 with a 2 bottom JD plow. I had to go check it out. The owner said that he had just bot it for $500 and wanted to run it some before he tore it down to restore. He made a couple of rounds and stopped on the end to change pull rope and I was helping him when he said, do you want to drive her? I grinned and said sure would like to.He said that the clutch was slipping a little so only run in 2nd gear. So, I got to run that little sweetheart the rest of the day. I stopped a couple of times and asked if he wanted it back, and he said it looked like I was having too much fun, so just keep going.If the clutch had been good, if would have been the fastest tractor there. Only drawback, I forgot to put new batteries in camera. I got a few good pic's, tried to take some while plowin but only got 1 and batteies died. Thanks to Kieth Felger for a great afternoon. I told him I wish he hadn't let me drive it and he looked at me kind of funny. I got bit hard by the bug and now have to get my 3 bottom plow fixed up and tractor running good enough to take my own rig next time. I felt like a kid again. Yea, it was a GREAT day. Chrishttp://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/super99/plow%20day/2006_1111PlowDay0009.jpg
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