Hi Hugh MacKay

JB2

I remember once mowing raking and baling with thrower some hay for a neighbor. He had a nasty hill from field up to highway, quite often having to stop for traffic. I wasn't planing to attempt that hill with 130 and loads. My help were raking with 130 and baling with 560. I landed there with Farmall 300 just as first load was ready, so did the neighbor with his 8N. He got quite huffy, acusing me of just bringing another tractor so I could up my hourly rate. I advised him I really didn't need my wagon smashed to bits from coming down that hill backwards, plus I really don't have time to go to your wake and funeral this week.

I told him if he had really wanted his tractor doing some of the time he could have raked the hay. Well he never thought of that. The way he drove the 8N, I don't think Mike would have wanted to bale his windrows.

I just plain takes weight to pull on hard roads.

It was hard gravel driveway, and 130 was loaded with one set of wheel weights plus chloride. Frank actually cheated a bit using the hydraulics and fast hitch drawbar. He had his hand right on hydraulic lever just giving it enough height to give him advantage, yet keep 130 front wheels very slightly on the ground. When that hitch was up all the way it was about 10" higher than 990 fixed drawbar. The DB was basically shipping weight and with those big tires I expect 130 actually had more pounds per square inch on ground. Had they got to the field the results would have been quite different.