Re: Tuesday's crawler

Posted by The tractor vet on February 27, 2018 at 09:07:36 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Tuesday's crawler posted by rrlund on February 27, 2018 at 04:30:21:

I spent many days on a O C 3 when i was a pup. My uncle was a tater grower and farmed with crawlers up until like 56-57 when he bought a Oliver super 88 but still had the crawlers . He had the O C 3 and a O C 6 diesel with three point and PTO . I first started driving the O C 3 at the ripe old age of 7 and by 9 years of age i was dragging a two bottom oliver trip rope plow . Always loved spring plowing . My uncle and the neighbor across the road worked together and he had A D 4 Cat and pulled five bottoms . The O C 6 had three bottoms three point Oliver plows and with the three in the same field totaling ten bottoms we could cover a lot of ground . same as all tillage work all three would be in the same field at the same time . I still can show you the scare next to my right eye from when the Crank tried to eat me along with the lump on my right arm where it got me when i stalled it one fall afternoon while harrowing the one big field . the battery was dead the gen. did not work and the men had no problem usen the crank or they would park it on the barn bridge hill and coast start it . everyone was working digging taters away from the main farm about a mile away and i was harrowing this biog field getting it ready to plant wheat . When i stalled it i figured i can do this myself , i put the crawler in neutral got the crank and set the throttel three clicks up stuck the crank in and eased it up on compression like i had seen my uncle do many times and with everything i had holding the crank with the MONKEY GRIP like i had been told i gave her a upward pull and Nothing . so we did this again and this time she almost went , so once more i did this and this time she kicked back like a mule the crank spun backwards out of my hand caught me on th3e elbow and flew out catching me up along side the head and laced me a good one . I was now leaking red bodylie fluids . This field where i stalled it was next to the ten acre pond and having a temper i picked up the crank and threw it as hard as i could . Now if anybody needs a crank for a OC 3 there is a like new with some RUST at the boittom of the Deep end of the pond about fifteen -twenty feet from the bank on the south east side just north of the woods.

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