Re: Remember the good old days?

Posted by The tractor vet on September 06, 2012 at 07:53:00 from (76.212.232.42):

In Reply to: Remember the good old days? posted by Dick2 on September 06, 2012 at 03:18:35:

Ah yes fall harvest , I could not hardly wait for Saturday and the crack of dawn to head out to my uncles for the tater harvest . My first year i was 7 and had the job of driving the Oliver O C 3 pulling a wagon that they put the bushel baskets on full of potatoes and haul them back to the storage barn. at the time there were only around a 100 acres of spuds . They were dug with a Oliver two row digger and picked up by and army of workers with potato forks and put in bushel
baskets then loaded and stacked four high on the wagon . Then hauled into the storage where men would dump the baskets onto and long elevator and dumped in the storage barn . The empty baskets were placed back on the wagon and i would take them back to the field where someone would jump up on the wagon while i drove slow and he would throw them off to be filled . Then swing around for the next load and back to the barn at a blistering speed of about 3-4 MPH Second gear wide open . at 7 years old i could handle the old OC 3 as well as the men and get the wagon just wright next to the elevator , never lost a basket . a couple years later the farm started to grow with more farms more spuds more people . Then the big change came in the fall of 59 with the addition of new tractors and the first of it's kind 2 row John Bean harvester , no more bushel baskets but self unloading wagons and old Cheve and Dodge trucks . No more army of people with tater forks just five or six people on the harvester one or two tractors for the harvester depending on field conditions and a extra tow tractor for the trucks or wagons , instead of six to eight people at the storage to unload now there was only two plus the driver. My uncle and the one neighbor worked together at everything and shared everything . Then in 1962 The neighbor bought the first new generation Deere a 4010 only to find out that it was not much more then my uncles 560 as it could not handle the harvester any better then the 560 could Because when it started to lug down ya had to stop to change gears and the truck or tractor along side loading sometimes would not stop as fast and ya had taters on the ground where as with the 560 ya just pulled the T/A and kept moving . In 1963 we had the 806 and now we had a tractor that had the power and weight to pull the harvester with out and extra tow tractor for the hills and some of the soft spots . But always kept either the D4 or the OC 6 close by .

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