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SweetFeet

SweetFeet

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I got to run our old unstyled John Deere B this morning (IT WAS FUN!!), while my husband operated our old rusty slip-scraper. The scraper worked real well. We are adding dirt as needed by the septic system installed last summer.

We will get a few more scoops of dirt tomorrow morning... getting too hot out there now - and the humidity today is waaayyy high.

Here she is in front of our renter's corn (which is growing real well), with a load of dirt in the scoop. You can see that our lawn is rather brown already... But we got a real nice rain yesterday, so it should green up a bit again.

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Your corn looks good. Careful with the slip scraper, don't want to get launched over the tractor. I have B just like that. I should get it running again.
 
The B appears to be sitting on cut off flat spoke wheels. My B has the flat spoke wheels but not on cut offs but on full steel and it too has pull a slip scope like that one
 
SweetFeet.
I know you enjoyed using that JD with the hand clutch.
If you were here this evening, I would put you on my JD H cultivating my popcorn patch.
I laid off rows with it yesterday and planted a sorghum patch.
Nathan plowed up taters with it Sunday evening.
And talk about hot and humid, I pulled sweet corn this morning and got soaking wet.
Going to go vacuum pack it in a few minutes.

Richard, who just got up from a nap and Miss V, who is still napping
 
I borrowed one when I needed to move some dirt so I could put up my shed. We borrowed it again when we put pea gravel in at the school playground. We pulled it with our Grand Cherokee. I impressed at least one guy with that ancient technology. So I bought one to have for myself. Unfortunately, it is wider and weights to much for me to handle. It has a single handle in the back. Maybe it isn't what I thought it was for.
 
Richard,

If I was there this evening, I'd positively cultivate your pop corn.

Plowing up taters would be fun... I could do that for ya, next year. :)

Weatherman at noon said today we are as humid as southern Florida. And I believe him... it's beyond nasty out there. LOL

It's 1:15 here... and I could soon take an accidental nap - if I sit still long enough.
 
Forgot to say, I knew an old man that hooked his scraper to a Farmall A and pulled it where he wanted to get dirt, jumped off and let the tractor keep going and when it was filled, jumped back on and jumped off to dump it and on and on and on.
He was a neat old farmer.
 
Oh, wow! That'd be a workout!

Husband was sweating just getting it started... then walk alongside the tractor, to dump it, then flip it back over after the dirt fell out.

I think he'd have finished up today but I called it quits so I would not get a headache from too much sun/heat.
 
The slip-scoop is a handy tool.

It will go stand back behind my rusty flower by the house steps, when we are done.
 
Tell ya what... when ya hit a rock, she unloads herself REAL FAST!

Only happened with one load... husband just let it go over. Probably would have injured his wrist(s) if he had tried to stop it. Then we just looped around and scooped it up again.
 
Hmmm. Not sure... but it seems like 2 handles would be better for dumping it.

He dumps it while I am moving ahead, rather than at a stand still.
 
Thanks, wjy.

He added an extetnal/independent hydraulics to the B too... so he can blade our gravel yard.
 
those were used by a horse to pull it. they were called sloop or scoop just forget what we called it.. the wider ones for 2 horses were called a fresno. they had only one handle in the middle. and yes you had to be moving to dump them. the fresno had skids on each side for when dumping the dirt would fall out evenly. used for road building in the early days also. imagine driving horses and running that thing.
 
Nice post Sweets.
Grandpa still had one of those scoops on the farm when I was young. I remember Dad and cousin Bob using it behind the Allis B to cut down the driveway approach to the township road so there wasn't such a hump there.
It worked surprisingly well.
 
Yes, it is a piece of horse drawn equipment... but your reply explains why SDE's has only one handle. Thanks.
 
Thanks, Ultradog.

Interesting story of your dad and uncle using theirs. I think it'd sure screech munching into gravel.

The great thing is... this project has NOT removed the nice looking rust layer... so it'll still look great behind my rusty flower when we are done. :)
 
Those type scoops were used to build about the entire Mississippi River levee system. They hauled the dirt to the levee sight but were unable to get the wagons to the top of the levee. So they unloaded the dirt at the base and used a mule and one of those scoops to haul the dirt to the top of the levee.
 
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