Hello The Red: "Laying by" might mean different things depending where you were in the corn country. In SW-MN it ment final pass through the corn fields and likely the 3ed time. We had a wide front on our S-MD and the corn was almost too high for getting bent under that wide front... but the boss said 'get-it-done' so I ignored the few that broke off.. The shields were off so running max in 3ed or not quite 3/4 throttle in 4th put quite a bit of dirt unto the rows in beans. I tended to enjoy doing all the field work when ever I was not in school. It kept me out of manure jobs around the livestock.. Good old days even turning that SMD with 4 row cultivator hung on the wide front with only my 'arm-strong' steering. It was good to look back at another 40 or 80 acres just cleaned up and showing fresh black dirt.. ..and that's from more then 50 year old memory images.. Some good things last a while.. By the way, I have a picture of our MD with a 2 row cultivator on it. Taken about 1945.. That MD was the 6th sold to the public.. I hope you get your grandfathers H some day.. ag ret.
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