Re: Pitman arm

Posted by El Toro on July 29, 2005 at 07:04:20 from (205.188.117.73):

In Reply to: Re: Pitman arm posted by Glenn in Michigan on July 29, 2005 at 04:36:34:

When I was a teen back in the late 40's, my late brother was mowing near a fence row and got the horses too close when he was trying to turn the horses. He broke the tongue on the mower and my dad wasn't too happy, I told him accident's happen
and be glad no one was hurt. The horses weren't injured either. I took the old 10-20 tractor out
and chained the broken tongue to the drawbar.

My dad was worried about getting the mower back
in the shed. A few days later I sawed off the
tongue to a stub and made a pair of brackets in at school. I had to use a brace and bit to drill the holes, so I could install those brackets.

I hooked up the 10-20 to the mower and went around and told my dad to get on the mower and we went out and mowed a few acres of alfalfa. We used that rig until we got an H with a 7 foot sickle bar in 1950. I left the farm in 1951
after high school and went to work for the US government. My brother joined the Air Force the day after we graduated and I was drafted into the Army in 1953. I was rehired at my old job in 1955 and I also got married in 1953 and our daughter was born at Ft Bragg NC. I retired in 1994. My dad got out of farming too. Hal

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